ingredients

• Half leg of lamb
• 2 carrots
• 1 parsnip
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 2 white onions
• 2 shallots
• some red wine
• thyme, black pepper, salt

method

Unbelievably easy. Chop the veg into large chunks, and throw into a large oven dish with a lid, add the peeled whole garlic and sit the lamb on top.
Score the skin of the lamb and season with thyme, black pepper, and just a little salt, pour over some wine, and dilute it with a little water (the liquid should come about half way up the dish).

Place in the oven at gas 2/150C/300F and leave it there for at least 3 hours, 4 is optimal.

Remove the meat and rest it (it will fall off the bone at this point) use a masher to squish up the other contents of the pan, thicken with corn flour on the hob if needed, sometimes I strain the lumps, sometimes I dont :)