Roast Leg of Lamb with Potatoes and Garlic - olive oil

Method

• Drizzle 2 tablespoons olive oil over lamb.
• Rub lamb with pressed garlic and 2 tablespoons oregano.
• Season generously with salt and pepper.
• Let stand 1 hour at room temperature.
• Preheat oven to 400F.
• Place lamb on heavy large baking sheet with 1-inch-high sides.
• Roast lamb in oven 1 hour.
• Add potatoes and unpeeled garlic cloves to baking sheet.
• Drizzle potatoes with remaining olive oil and sprinkle with remaining oregano.
• Season potatoes generously with salt and pepper.
• Continue cooking lamb and potatoes until lamb is cooked to desired doneness, 40 minutes for medium rare.
• Transfer lamb to platter.
• Pour off any juices on baking sheet and reserve.
• Continue roasting potatoes until potatoes are brown and tender, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.
• Arrange potatoes around lamb on platter.
• Degrease reserved juices.
• Slip garlic cloves from skins; mix with reserved juices.
• Serve lamb and potatoes, spooning juices over lamb.