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    Home » Recipes » Low-Carb Keto Dinner Recipes

    Easy Roast Lamb (Sugar-Free Mint Sauce)

    Published: Dec 11, 2015· Modified: Apr 20, 2022· By Libby Jenkinson May contain affiliate links.

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    Want to learn how to cook Easy Roast Lamb With Sugar-Free Mint Sauce? It's a really easy and nutritious dinner with plenty of leftovers for lunchboxes the next day. And while you have the oven on, there is a list of suggested recipes below to make a few baked items for the weeks ahead.

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    Easy roast lamb with a sugar free mint sauce.

    Easy Roast Lamb With Sugar-Free Mint Sauce

    I am lucky to live in New Zealand where our lamb is the finest in the world and is relatively affordable. When prices drop further, I buy leg roasts and freeze them for the winter. This recipe can easily be adapted to butterflied lamb, lamb steaks or lamb chops.

    Lamb is such wonderfully fatty and tasty meat. People forget that many of our old favourite family meals can still be made, we just have to change the side dishes that accompany it. Low carb cooking really is simple whole food, cooked simply and enjoyed together as a family.

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    Firstly choose a roasting tray that will be appropriate for the size of the lamb you are about to cook. Find some fresh mint and rosemary. You can substitute dried herbs but it really is phenomenally better with fresh.

    Roast Lamb Sugar-Free Mint Sauce

    I grow these fresh herbs in my garden, but they can be grown on your windowsill if you don't have a veggie patch. I don't do any pre-cooking or cooking at high temperatures then lower it, I want my roast lamb to be an easy mid-week dinner. Set and forget. I'm too busy baking other items to mess about with temperatures or basting (spooning oil over the lamb).

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    Sugar-Free Mint Sauce

    This is exactly the traditional mint sauce recipe that I grew up with (just minus the sugar). My mother would get fresh mint from the garden, add sugar to draw out the oils from the mint leaves, then add the vinegar.

    Today many people have never tried the traditional mint sauce, just the 'mint jelly' available in supermarkets. You can add stevia, but this is optional. I realise it may be a step too far just to have the vinegar taste with no sweetness, personally I prefer it without sweetener.

    Always add according to your taste and your preference (and I don't want a thousand comments saying it was too sweet/not sweet enough 😉 ).

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    Easy Roast Lamb With Sugar-Free Mint Sauce

    This is how to make easy roast lamb with sugar-free mint sauce. Remember to make a big salad the next day with leftover cold roast lamb, feta, mint and olive oil.
    Servings: 6
    Author: Libby Jenkinson
    Prep Time 5 minutes
    Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
    Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes
    Category: Dinner. Lunch
    Diet: Diabetic. Gluten Free
    Dairy Free. Gluten Free. Grain free. Keto. LCHF. Low Carb. No Sugars. Paleo. Wheat Free
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    Ingredients

    Roast Lamb

    • 1 kg (2.2 lb) leg of lamb on the bone
    • handful fresh rosemary
    • salt to taste

    Sugar-Free Mint Sauce

    • a handful (handful) fresh mint
    • 125 ml (½ cups) white vinegar
    • 1 teaspoon granulated sweetener of choice optional

    Instructions

    Sugar-Free Mint Sauce

    • Chop the fresh mint as finely as you can. Put in a small glass and pour on the vinegar and sweetener (optional).
    • Mix together with a fork and allow to infuse while you cook the roast lamb.

    Roast Lamb

    • Remove the leg of lamb from the fridge while you preheat the oven.
    • Place the leg of lamb on an oiled roasting dish.
    • Dry the top of the roast with paper towels.
    • With a sharp knife, make small cuts into the meat and press pieces of fresh rosemary into the cuts.
    • Sprinkle with a moderate amount of salt (not to excess) over the entire top of the meat.
    • Roast at 180C/350F for the following times.

    Well done lamb 30 minutes per 450g/ 1 lb plus 30 minutes.,

    • Whichever way you choose to cook your lamb, always remove the meat from the oven, cover with foil and a few tea towels to keep warm for 10 minutes. This allows the meat to relax and the juices to settle.
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    Notes

    There are negligible carbs from the sugar-free mint sauce.

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    Easy Roast Lamb With Sugar-Free Mint Sauce
    Serving Size
     
    100 g
    Amount per Serving
    Protein
     
    26
    g
    52
    %
    Fat
     
    13.3
    g
    20
    %
    % Daily Value*
    -
    Calories
    232
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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    Whenever I have the oven on to cook a roast dinner, I always utilise the empty space and cook extra dishes. This is an example of what I usually make to be prepared for the weeks ahead.

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    1. Anisah

      August 11, 2017 at 9:56 pm

      Hi.
      Lovely recipe. Being Australian, we eat lots of lamb.
      One question is why use any type of sweetener in the mint sauce?
      We have made our own mint sauce for years simply by putting dried mint into white vinegar and keeping it in it a glass bottle. We have added a little green food colouring from time to time, but NEVER sugar or any sweetener. We have never needed it.
      Perhaps we put sugar into less cooking than in the USA?
      Just a thought
      A wonderful site
      Anisah

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      • Libby www.ditchthecarbs.com

        August 12, 2017 at 4:00 pm

        I am in NZ and I grew up enjoying loads of kiwi lamb (of course 😉 ) and my mother always made our mint sauce using mint leaves, sugar and vinegar. American readers are used to mint jelly which is really sweet. The sweetener is optional, so feel free to omit it. Mint and vinegar are beautiful and fresh by themselves, so go for it.

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      • karen

        December 19, 2019 at 3:30 am

        I have an Australian recipe using cold tea, sugar, fresh mint ( usually spearmint) and white vinegar. it is delicious.

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    2. A

      December 15, 2015 at 5:48 pm

      Why is the lamb cooking weight entered as pounds? 🙂

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      • Libby www.ditchthecarbs.com

        December 16, 2015 at 4:01 pm

        The conversions are for all my American followers 🙂

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    3. shelleypc

      December 12, 2015 at 4:31 am

      Yum, this will be fabulous for New Years dinner. Thanks 🙂

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    4. Anna Funnell

      December 11, 2015 at 9:51 pm

      I have to say, I make mint sauce the way my Mum has always made it: literally just vinegar and mint. I'd never have thought of adding sugar to it anyway! 🙂

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      • Libby www.ditchthecarbs.com

        December 15, 2015 at 9:19 am

        It's lovely isn't it? A very clean and light addition to lamb.

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