Slow cooked Leg of Lamb

[Sami]

I took my parents there in June and we had the lamb along with various other meals. Again they could not fault it and the lamb was fantastic. I have been again first night we arrived this time, going to book lamb for tomorrow as going on a boat trip and will be hungry by the evening. Eddie explained the lamb gets cooked in the open oven over by the mosque in the old village, nice and slow, all day in fact. No wonder its so tender and falls off the
bone.

[jonty1948]

Hi, all,
We were over in June, staying at the Mitos (sorry, non-ICR). Had a super slow-cooked leg in the Mitos lounge on our last night- ordered previous day. Could only eat about half of it, the remainder turned into lamb sandwiches to eat on the plane coming home. Super service!
John M.

[alexkeirmaxmum]

We are curious as to what you all got for your leg of lamb as we were unimpressed. That being said, we are Scottish and it is not a dish we tend to have. I think lamb is very much an English Sunday dinner.
We were expecting something Turkish but got what can only be described as a huge tray of fat and stringy meat with what seemed like Bisto gravy.
Is lamb leg usually like this as I only ever buy lean lamb for a Moroccan tagine and it was nothing like this. We were charged 100 lira and my hubby couldn't eat it.

[blondie]

I'm Scottish too and we love lamb! Having had the leg of lamb in a few places, have to say ours was nothing like that - beautifully tender meat which simply melted in the mouth, and certainly not Bisto-style gravy either. I often do lamb in my slow cooker and it turns out lovely, but still not a patch on what you get in Turkey. Think you must have been very unlucky to have such a disappointing experience...

[sunlover loch lomond]

I would agree with Blondie. We have never had leg of lamb with bisto-style gravy and any that we have had would have melted in your mouth - no knife required. It is disappointing that you had such an expensive experience which did not meet your expectations.