Easter lamb with blackberry sauce

I was told that I was cooking a leg of lamb for Easter this year. I've never cooked lamb before, so I started searching for a few recipes. I ended up combining a couple recipes to make my lamb.  I started by marinating the lamb.

Ingredients:

Garlic
Lemon
Olive Oil
Fresh Rosemary

I started by cutting slits into the lamb and adding garlic all around it. I ended up using a lot of garlic, somewhere around 15/20 pieces, but use less if you are not a fan of garlic. In a bowl combine about 2 tbsp of lemon zest, and then squeeze lemon juice into the bowl. After that I combined 2 tbsp of olive oil and I added fresh rosemary, also about 2 tbsp. I mixed those all up and rubbed the mixture into the lamb.

I let this marinate about 4 hours.  Once I was ready to cookI put it into the oven. I had other things cooking so it took a bit longer than expected. I had it in there at 350 for an 1hr 45min. 

While this was cooling a bit before it was cut up I made my blackberry sauce.

Ingredients:

Blackberries

Green onions

olive oil

pure maple syrup



In a frying pan I added 1/4 cup of green onions chopped, and about 2 tbsp olive oil. Once it started to heat up I added about a cup of blackberries and 2 tbsp of pure maple syrup. Keep stiring until the blackberries start to break up and it becomes more sauce like.

I left a few chunks of berries in there for texture. I dont really measure what I added, so these are estimates, add more or less of somethign depending on your taste.

Add mixture on top of lamb and serve!

(Sorry my flash was on so it washed out the picture)