Slow Cooker Roast Lamb Leg with Gravy

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Prep Time
5m
Cook Time
10h
Total Time
10h 5m
This slow cooker roast lamb leg with gravy is a tender and flavorful dish perfect for a special dinner. With just a few simple ingredients like salt, pepper, garlic, and thyme, the lamb is slow-cooked until it's fall-off-the-bone tender. The rich gravy made from the braising liquid is the perfect finishing touch.
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Ingredients

Servings: 5
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Notes

1. Make sure you get a lamb that fits in your slow cooker! I have a standard size round slow cooker and I was able to fit in a 1.9kg/3.8lb lamb leg which had the shaft partially cut so it bends which I got from Woolworths. In Australia, you can purchase half lamb legs (also Woolworths) which come without the shaft /bone which will fit in easily into a standard slow cooker. If you have an oval slow cooker, you can probably fit in the lamb leg even without the shaft cut.

A 2kg / 4 lb bone in lamb equates to about 1.5kg/3lb boneless lamb, same cook time.

If your lamb is about 1 -1.25kg / 2 - 2.5lb, you can reduce the cook time to 8 hours. If your lamb is larger than 2.25kg /4.5lb, increase it to 12 hours.

2. If you use chicken broth, the gravy is slightly lighter in colour. The reason I use broth and not just the lamb juices is that lamb juices are very...well, LAMBY. 🙂 Too lambyfor gravy. I find that 2 cups of broth combined with lamb juices = perfect gravy flavour.

3. OVEN: See the Slow Roasted Lamb Leg recipe!

4. Servings - 2kg/4lb bone in is about 1.5kg / 3 lb of meat which reduces to about 1.2kg/2.4lb of meat after cooking. This serves 4 generously or 5 for normal servings (in my opinion!).

5. Nutrition - This is a conservative calculation because it doesn't take into account the lamb fat and drippings that are discarded (which accounts for plenty of the calories!). Unfortunately I don't know how to estimate that, so I've not made an adjustment to exclude discarded fat.

Nutrition Facts

  • Calories
    1,240kcal
    62%
  • Fat
    66g
    3%
  • Saturated Fat
    28g
    1%
  • Carbohydrates
    13g
    0%
  • Fiber
    1g
    0%
  • Sugar
    1g
    0%
  • Protein
    136g
    6%
  • Cholesterol
    344mg
    17%
  • Sodium
    832mg
    41%
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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