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roast lamb shoulder

spalla arrosto


TOTAL TIME: 1 hour, 40 minutes

MAKES: 6 servings

Look for butterflied lamb shoulder at your local butcher shop, or ask for it at your supermarket's meat counter.

Ingredients

  • 1½ teaspoons fennel seeds
  • 2 tablespoons, plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
  • ½ pound button mushrooms, cut into ½-inch dice
  • Salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 (1-pound) bunch Swiss chard, trimmed, tough stems discarded
  • 1 (2- to 2½-pound) boneless lamb shoulder, fat trimmed, butterflied
  • ⅓ pound thinly sliced pancetta
  • 2 leafy sprigs fresh rosemary
  • 2 leafy sprigs fresh sage
  • ¾ cup dry white wine
 

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400°. Place the fennel seeds in a small skillet over medium heat. Gently shaking pan back and forth over heat, toast seeds until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Transfer seeds to a plate.

Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring, until almost all of the liquid in the pan has evaporated, 5 to 6 minutes. Remove from heat and season lightly with salt and pepper.

Bring a large saucepan of lightly salted water to boil. Add chard leaves and cook until tender, about 4 minutes; drain and pat dry.

Open the lamb like a book and place on a clean work surface; season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with the fennel seeds, then cover with chard and mushrooms. Roll up lamb, cover with the pancetta, and secure at 2-inch intervals with kitchen twine; tuck rosemary and sage into twine.

Place the lamb in a roasting pan, drizzle with remaining 2 tablespoons oil, and season with salt and pepper. Roast for 20 minutes. Add ½ cup of the wine and ½ cup water to the pan; baste. Roast for 30 minutes more, basting every 10 minutes, then add the remaining 1⁄4 cup wine and ¼ cup water, and continue to roast, basting once or twice, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of lamb reaches 140° to 145° for medium, 15 to 20 minutes more. Transfer the lamb to a cutting board and let rest for 10 minutes. Cut and discard the twine. Slice lamb and serve with pan juices.

April 2008

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