Chef's 3-step slow cooker leg of lamb recipe is perfect for Easter Sunday (2025)

With Easter Sunday just a few days away, many will be celebrating the holiday by tucking into a traditional roast lamb dinner - and one chef has shared the perfect recipe for it.

With Easter just around the corner, families are gearing up to enjoy a traditional roast lamb dinner this Sunday. However, if you're tired of the lengthy process involved in preparing a traditional leg of lamb roast, one chef has a time-saving trick that still delivers a delicious dish.

Social media cook Poppy O'Toole has shared her straightforward slow cooker method on TikTok, which simplifies the entire process.

In her video, which she shared with her 4.8 million followers, Poppy explains her three-step approach: simply place the lamb and ingredients into the slow cooker and let it cook for 12 hours.

This easy hassle-free technique not only allows for preparation the night before but also results in incredibly tender meat that effortlessly falls off the bone.

Poppy's clip begins with an enthusiastic announcement: "This is a public service announcement to slow cooker your lamb this Easter. I love slow cooking and using a slow cooker is all about, for me, banging it all in - none of this 'fry it off do X,Y Z' before you get it in. Nah just through it all in."

She further highlights the just how easy the recipe is, saying: "one of the best things about this recipe is that you can leave it on overnight."

"So you can get everything ready the night before, put it in and then just crack on with the rest of the food that you're doing for Easter. And this will just sit in the slow cooker, on low until you're ready to carve, serve and eat," she continues.

Read below for the full leg of lamb recipe.

12-hour slow cooker leg of lamp recipe

Ingredients

• 1kg bone in leg of lamb
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 tsp onion granules
• 1 tsp celery salt
• 1 tsp garlic granules
• 1 tsp dried rosemary
• 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
• 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
• 1/2 bulb of garlic
• Good crack of black pepper to season

Cooking method

1. Mix all of the dry ingredients together and rub into the lamb

2. Throw the lamb, fresh herbs and garlic into the slow cooker on low overnight (or for 12-15 hours). Let the slow cooker do all the hard work for you.

3. The lamb is ready when the meat is tender and falling off the bone. Enjoy!

Experts also gave a warning to those making Easter roast dinners, to make sure they don't put gravy down their sink.

Danielle Robinson, plumbing category manager at Toolstation said: "Tipping gravy down the sink can cause serious harm to your household pipes since once it cools the fats and oils solidify and create blockages - which can be costly to fix."

Instead, she recommends homeowners wipe down cutlery and crockery and then dispose of the food debris in the household waste bin to avoid any potential plumbing issues.

Other culprits for blocking drains include rice and pasta - even the tiniest amounts can clump together and clog up the pipes - and custard and creams due to their high fat content.

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