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Sample Recipe: Napa Valley

 Below is a sample recipe from our Hill Guide to the Napa Valley.  Hill Guides are the only guidebooks that include rarely revealed recipes from chefs and winemakers from each region. We want you to be able to recreate a favorite dish you experienced in your travels.  Check out our List of Recipes, as well as our List of Wineries and Sample Winery.

Nonna Rina's Lamb Roast
from Mario Andretti's mother, Rina Andretti, Napa, California

Ingredients:

7 lb leg of lamb

fresh lemon

2 Tbs fresh or dried rosemary

1 cup Andretti Winery Pinot Noir

3 cups water

2 stalks celery, diced

1 carrot, diced

1 onion, diced

Accent

salt

pepper

Preparation:

Remove all fat from the leg of lamb. Wash the lamb in water and pat dry. Cut a fresh lemon in half and rub vigorously over the lamb. Then Rub rosemary over the skin. Sprinkle Accent, salt, and pepper over the leg, to taste.

Preheat over to 350°F. Next, mix 3 cups of water and 1 cup of Andretti Winery Pinot Noir. Add the diced celery, carrots, and onion to the broth mixture.

Put broth in pan, then lay in leg of lamb. Bake at 350°F for 3 hours or until done. (Meat should fall away at the bone.) When done, remove lamb and slice into pieces.

Gravy for lamb roast: Put all the juice through a strainer into another pot and bring to a boil. Take 1 or 2 Tbs of cornstarch and dilute in 1/2 cup water. Pour slowly into boiling juice, mixing constantly for 1 minute. Once mixed, pour gravy over meat. Serve warm.

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