Roast Leg of Lamb with Cardamom Sauce

Name: Roast Leg of Lamb with Cardamom Sauce
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons mild French mustard the very mild whole seed kind is best); salt, black pepper; about 8 cardamom pods; 1 tablespoon of olive oil; juice of ½ lemon; 1 dessertspoon of powdered cardamom you should be able to get this and the whole kind at delicatessens or Indian grocers); 1 leg of lamb (preferably English, or best of all Welsh); ¾ pint milk (425 ml); 1 oz cornflour (25 g); 1 oz butter (25 g)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

This is really just a very delicious sauce to make a Sunday joint more exciting. I have put down quantities for a generous amount of sauce as it always seems to be very lavishly used on the meat.

Ingredients

1 leg of lamb (preferably English, or best of all Welsh)
about 8 cardamom pods
juice of ½

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Several hours or the day before you roast it make several incisions in the lamb. Peel the cardamom pods and find several little black seeds inside. Stick these into the incisions in the lamb. Put the lamb on a dish and rub all over with a mixture of the olive oil, lemon juice, salt and black pepper. Leave in a coolish place (not in the fridge). Then pre-heat the