Special Request-how To Smoke A Milk Of Human Kindness Fed Leg Of Lamb
From mystic_river1 15 years ago
- 360 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Photo: courtesy of Blue Smoke ----------------------------------- Man's inhumanity to Man can sometimes be overwhelming. Try inviting a few friends to a feast of smoked lamb which has been fed on the milk of human kindness. Read more I was asked if I knew how to smoke a lamb. I have used this recipe since I found it in an old Cuisine magazine from 1995. Lamb was my father's favorite entree so I tried to find many different ways to prepare it for him. See less
Ingredients
- SMOKED leg of lamb shopping list
- 6 lb leg of lamb, bone-in shopping list
- 2 garlic clove; slivered shopping list
- salt shopping list
- pepper shopping list
- 2 tb vermouth, dry shopping list
- 2 tb olive oil shopping list
- 1 Bay leaf; crumbled shopping list
- 1/2 ts rosemary, dried; crumbled shopping list
- 8 lb Charcoal briquets shopping list
- 2 1/2 c Hickory chips; soaked for shopping list
- -1 hour & drained shopping list
- 5 qt ;water shopping list
How to make it
- Trim excess fat from lamb. Cut 1/2-inch incisions 2 inches apart over
- surface of lamb; insert slivers of garlic into incisions. Rub lamb with
- salt and pepper. Combine vermouth, olive oil, bay leaf, thyme and rosemary
- in small bowl; work this mixture into lamb. (Lamb can be refrigerated at
- this point, tightly wrapped in plastic, up to 24 hours. Bring to room
- temperature before smoking.)
- Set up smoker, using 8 pounds briquets and 2-1/2 cups soaked and drained
- hickory chips. Add 5 quarts water to water pan.
- Place lamb on upper rack of smoker; smoke until instant-reading thermo-
- meter inserted into thickest part of meat away from bone registers 150F or
- medium or 160F for well done, 4 to 6 hours. Serve hot or at room
- temperature.
- That's it!
The Rating
Reviewed by 13 people-
very interesting great recipe high 5
momo_55grandma
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Wonderful Recipe. *5*
Thank you!
Tilgidh
tilgidh
in Blackshear loved it
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Delicious! Bay and rosemary are perfectly complimenting the lamb!
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