Ghana

Its been a busy few days, so I haven't had time to update the blog. I haven't stopped cooking though and the number of recipes that I need to update are starting to pile up!

Speaking of pile ups... wasn't the car crash that was the French world cup campaign one of the highlights of the tournament? If they had tried to fail more spectacularly I don't think they could have. Of course part of me is fuming that the stole a place in the world cup from Ireland and then didn't even seem to want to be there, but seeing them crash and burn like that does make it a little more bareable. So we have Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina and South Korea through so far... I'm hoping England join them today.

Anyway, back to the food. On Saturday we had my sister Serena and my nephew Eoin over to try some Ghanaian food, and as she is a big fan of it I decided to treat her to a roast leg of lamb.
Its hard to go wrong with a leg of lamb, its always mouthwateringly good unless overdone, but this recipe, which called for a marinade of sesame oil and cumin, was particularly delicious. And with roasted sweet potatoes cooked in the meat juices, we will definitely be revisiting Ghana in our kitchen sometime soon!

Recipe
(Taken from www.ghanamma.com)

Ingredients
1 leg of lamb
2 large sweet potatoes peeled
3 large floury potatoes peeled

Marinade
4 tablespoons ground cumin
1 tablespoon garlic salt
5 tablespoons sesame oil

In a large roasting pan make several cuts into the lamb, an inch or two deep.
Combine all the ingredients to the marinade and spoon over lamb, taking care to pour some into the cuts.
Preheat the oven to gas mark 7, cook lamb for 30 mins and then reduce the heat to gas mark 3. After 1 hour add the potatoes to the roasting pan. (I didn't have enough room in the roasting pan for all my potatoes so I poured some of the meat juices into a second pan and used that too, which worked out fine).
Cook for another 40 mins or until the potatoes are nicely browned and cooked through.



Oh I wish I was eating this again right now....