Italian Marinated Leg of Lamb

Italian Marinated Leg of Lamb – this easy recipe for roasted leg of lamb is good, tender, juicy, and bursting with Italian herb flavor.

Leg of lamb is one of our favorite foods for Easter dinner – served with buttery soft dinner rollsscalloped corn tabboulehand tzatziki for a good meal!

This is hands down the easiest roasted leg of lamb recipe ever – it is simple, and bursting with flavor.

Lamb and we have a complicated relationship.

Lamb can be game-y (which is precisely why our husband loves it so much), but when slow roasted, it can be soft and rich like a roast- with tons of flavor.

Luckily, its pretty easy to get a good, un-fussy leg of lamb with this incredibly easy Italian Marinated Leg of Lamb recipe that includes 3 ingredients!

We hope you love this easy marinated lamb recipe as much as we do.

At Avdaye, we add lots of tips in all of our recipes – because we are a home cook without any formal training, and we find we are more confident making dishes when we understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. Our goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

Kitchen notes

It's important to note that we don't recommend skipping the browning step before the lamb goes in the oven.

Searing your meat helps to lock in juices and flavor so your lamb doesn't dry out- and gives it a good flavor you won't get by tossing in a dutch oven to bake right off the bat.

Luckily, you can brown the meat and roast it in the exact same pan- use a heavy dutch oven with a lid and sear it without the lid, adding the lid when it goes into the oven.

One less pan to clean- our kind of meal!

Serve it with

Lamb is naturally gluten free and low carb – and this preparation works into tons of different meals!

We love pairing roasted lamb with salads like tabbouleh or tzatziki – but we're sharing some of our other favorite foods to serve with lamb below:

To find our complete side dish recipe archives, please click here.

For more Easter or holiday dinner ideas from our archives, please click here.

A few answers

How long will lamb last?

Lamb can be kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to four days.

What temperature to cook lamb to?

Lamb is considered fully cooked at 145 degrees.

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Ingredients

• 1 leg of lamb
• 6 cloves garlic
• 8 oz Italian salad dressing
• dry white wine

Method

1. Poke holes in leg of lamb, stuff with garlic.
2. Add dressing to a large plastic bag, add lamb in.
3. Refrigerate overnight to let lamb marinate.
4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
5. In a heavy dutch oven, sear lamb on all sides (reserve the marinade in the bag to baste the lamb if it dries out).
6. Place in oven (if adding wine, add it to the dutch oven as lamb goes in).
7. Cook 1/2 hour for each pound of meat (around 2-3 hours for a 4-5 pound leg of lamb).