Gigot de Sept Heures

Name: Gigot de Sept Heures
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 cup/225 ml water; ¼ cup/56 ml olive oil; salt and pepper; 2 small onions, thinly sliced; 4 carrots, peeled; 1 bouquet garni; 1 cup/225 ml dry white wine; 1 cup/225 g flour; 1 leg of lamb, about 6 lb/2.7 kg; 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; 20 whole garlic cloves, peeled

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Les Halles Cookbook

By Anthony Bourdain

Published 2004

About

That’s right: seven-hour leg of lamb. That leaves you plenty of time for prepping additional courses, a long nap, and catching up on the taped episodes of The Simpsons you’ve been meaning to watch.

Ingredients

1 leg of lamb, about 6 lb/2.7 kg
4 garlic cloves, thi

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Method

Prep the Lamb

Preheat the oven to 300°F/150°C. Using the paring knife, make many small incisions around the leg. Place a sliver of garlic into each of the incisions. Rub the lamb well with olive oil and season it all over with salt and pepper. Plac