Hi all, i'm doing a roast leg of lamb for a dinner party in a couple of weeks. Should I do stuffing with it? And if so, does anyone have any good recipes?

Thank you

If no-one objects then I would just do it with garlic and rosemary. Make small incisions all over the leg and insert slices of garlic and bits of rosemary.I would use a couple of cloves of garlic.

And small bits of anchovy - wonderful with lamb.

Roast leg of lamb comes with bone flavoured stuffing already, doesn't it?

You could go down the North African route. I don't have a recipe but a stuffing involving apricots, dates and some spices should be nice.

Thanks for all your suggestions. Never even thought to put anchovy with lamb, though I do use it in mince. Degsy, think I may give that a whirl! I think it will work well with my marinade which is tamarind, garlic, chilli and coriander.

I am a little confused by what you mean by stuffing. Do you mean like the Sage and Onion type you have usually with a roast bird of some kind? I only ask because some of the responses seem to be about adding flavour too the Lamb rather than actual stuffing.

Anyway if you mean Stuffing in the Roasted Bird kind, I would say yes its fine with lamb, but then again I would have it with anything as I absolutely love stuffing, it is why I love this time of year I get more of it than any other time of the year

Seconded. I've done that with a boned rolled shoulder of lamb before and it was fantastic

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I've heard of using anchovies for enhancing flavours but I'm never sure how much to use. Roughly what proportions of anchovies do you use to garlic? And are they inserted into the incisions like the garlic?

Just looked at a few recipies and you'd need about 8 fillets, so generally 2/3 of a tin/jar.

http://foodiesite.com/recipes/2004-05:rstlambanchovies
http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/512288

video - http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/51...isplayVideo/hi

Aaaah thanks. The first recipe sounds delicious. You need alot more anchovies than I would have thought. Furthermore I like the sound of the wine gravy. I've never thought of trying a white wine gravy with lamb. Have added it to my favourites.