Five Spice Lamb Roast

Total Time: 10 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 -4 lbs lamb shoulder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons five-spice powder
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 3/4 cup apple juice
• 1/3 cup dry wine
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• hot cooked rice

Recipe

• 1 trim fat from roasts and cut down to fit into your crockpot.
• 2 if necessary, remove the bone.
• 3 rub the five spice powder all over lamb roast.
• 4 brown roast on all sides in oil.
• 5 place browned roasted into crockpot.
• 6 mix together apple juice, wine and soy sauce and pour mixture over roast.
• 7 cook on low for 10 hours or high for 4 1/2 to 5 hours.
• 8 preheat oven to 200 degrees.
• 9 cut up roast and place roast in oven to keep warm while preparing sauce.
• 10 strain liquid into a large measuring cup.
• 11 skim off fat.
• 12 if there isn't 2 cups of liquid, add water to make up the difference.
• 13 next, heat liquid in a small saucepan.
• 14 mix together water and cornstarch; add to saucepan.
• 15 cook until liquid it becomes thick.
• 16 serve gravy over roast and rice.