Provence  Cooking,Roast Lamb
Olive Oil and Herbs de Provence
Roast lamb chops with garlic baked
with  rosemary, thyme, and bay leaf.
In the Provence markets
you find bunches of
bay leaf,
thyme and rosemary
tied
together. After placing two or
three of the sprigs of rosemary
in a steel roasting pan
surrounding several heads of
garlic, moistening with olive oil,
you place a layer of rosemary
over that and then place the
lamb on top of the rosemary
after first smearing each chop
with
olive oil and  Herbs de
Provence.
After smearing each chop or
cut with a generous portion of
Herbs de Provence and olive
oil, insert a crushed garlic
clove between each chop and
tie the lamb into a tight bundle  
Bake in a 350 over for 12 minutes per pound, turn three times to bake evenly.
Remove the lamb and cover with foil while continuing to roast the garlic if
necessary until it is soft. Place the garlic and lamb on a serving platter and
keep this warm while making  a sauce in the pan with the left over juices.
Spoon off excess oil and strain the sauce to remove the sprigs of Thyme and
Rosemary. Serve on the side with the lamb.
Roasted Provence Lamb and Garlic  with Thyme
The garlic should bake in the skin
until soft
Provence Cooking
Roast Lamb
Herbs de Provence: the wild herbs growing
in the hills of Provence could include
lavender, thyme, rosemary, savory, and
basil ; thyme and rosemary, the most
common growing wild.  
The custom is to serve
Camargue sea salt
at
the table for an
additional flavoring at
the discretion of each
guest
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