50+ Friends Club Cookbook -- Meat and Game -- Butterflied Leg of Lamb with Blue Cheese

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Butterflied Leg of Lamb with Blue Cheese

From the Kitchen of: Pepper
Source: Portland's Palate A Collection of Recipes from the City of Roses

Ingredients
1	clove	garlic - minced
1	tsp.	ground ginger
4	tbsp.	brown sugar
1/2	C	red or dry white wine
1/2	C	soy sauce
1/2	C	olive oil
1	5-lb.	leg of lamb, butterflied

In a small bowl, combine garlic, ginger and sugar. Mix well. Whisk in wine, soy sauce and olive oil to make marinade.
Cover lamb with marinade and refrigerate for 2 days, turning every 4 to 6 hours.
While coals are burning to embers, prepare blue cheese mixture.

Sauce
2	oz.	blue cheese crumbled
4	tbsp.	butter
4	chopped	green onions
1	tbsp.	freshly squeezed lemon juice

In a small bowl, combine blue cheese, butter, green onions and lemon juice.
Place lamb on grill, cover and barbecue approximately 1 hour or unitl internal temperature reaches 150F(medium) or 180(well done)
Place barbecued lamb on a baking sheet. Spoon blue cheese mixture over lamb and place under the broiler for 4 or 5 minutes or until cheese melts and bubbles.

To Serve

Thinly slice lamb. Serves 6 to 8.