Best roast lamb recipes (2024)

The addition of Badger ale in this recipe is inspired.

If you're after a simple Sunday lunch dish, then this is the recipe for you as it cooks everything in one dish. It also means that your potatoes and vegetables are packed full of the mouth-watering lamb juices.

This delicious rack filled with black pudding makes a delicious alternative to a traditional roast dinner.

This succulent leg of lamb with a hint of citrus will make the perfect centrepiece for your Easter feast or a family Sunday Lunch.

If you want an alternative to lemon chicken, then this roasted lamb joint should do the trick. Make sure you compliment the meat with a generous serving of potatoes, vegetables and gravy for a hearty dinner meal idea.

This dish is best made during spring as the inclusion of rhubarb creates a sticky and succulent shoulder of lamb.

This must be one of the easiest roast dinners ever. Serve the lamb simply carved with the hot potatoes, onions and fresh tasting salsa verde. There’s no need for extra frills.

Serve this dish alongside bitter radicchio salad and baked sweet potato, to compliment the delicious flavour from the neck of lamb fillet.

The sloe gin adds a deliciously different dimension to slow roast lamb. Purple grape juice is a good non-alcoholic alternative.

Cooking this dish slowly means that the meat completely melts off the bone, making it an impressive meal idea for a dinner party.

This fragrant roasted leg of lamb is a British classic and is best served alongside seasonal vegetables and a broth of gravy.

This traditional Greek lemon and garlic-infused lamb is cooked for five hours, resulting in deliciously tender meat packed with flavour. This is the perfect way to add a touch of the Mediterranean to you next Sunday lunch.

This deliciously succulent roast lamb makes the perfect Sunday lunch. With a sticky apricot, honey and ginger glaze, serve with roast potatoes and seasonal greens for the ultimate weekend meal.

This deliciously succulent roast lamb makes the perfect Sunday lunch. You can also cook potatoes with it too: add 1kg of peeled and quartered potatoes during the last hour. Sprinkle the potatoes with some extra lemon juice, rigani or oregano, salt and pepper.

This is slow cooking at its best, filling your kitchen with tantalizingly good smells. The lamb takes about seven hours to reach perfection and the result is a dish that requires very little attention, with none of the last-minute Sunday lunch stress.

This lamb pilaf is wonderfully succulent. The tender rice coupled with meltingly soft lamb is a match made in heaven and is perfect for a Sunday roast with a difference.

The sweet juicy pears with the succulent roasted lamb are utterly delicious. The pear cider twist makes this lamb a great recipe for a dinner party or Sunday lunch get together.