Kleftico

[Trillipse]

It's a dish I love to make (and to eat!) and i often vary my recipe a bit randomly. anyone got any favourite recipes for it?

[georgit79]

no idea but I'd love to know- it's amazing! Had the best kleftico(ko?) I've ever tasted at a restaurant in Primrose Hill called Lemonia. It was so good I almost cried.

[Trillipse]

oh Georgit you're a pleasure to talk to.

I used to live in camden tahn and my ex now lives in primrose hill, but i don't know of lemonia. i was drawn into kleftico - and haven't had better since - at a place in Blackpool! called Giggi's Taverna. Marvellous. I've experimented ever since, and am loving the results, but am yet to find the magic combination. Likewise with Baklava.

Although I have been able to make a passable Balaclava. Bit stringy.

[willowman]

Ask your butcher for lamb shanks, like a small leg of lamb. We have a local butcher who does 6 for a tenner so its quite a cheap meal, even allowing for one each!

Pierce the meat with a sharp knife and poke slivers of garlic into the holes. Put rosemary over the lamb, a sprig of fresh if you can get it.

Wrap the meat loosely in foil which has been oiled and cook in a low oven (gas mark 3) for a long time- Mrs W says 3 to 4 hours depending on the size of meat. When you unwrap it the smell is wonderful and the meat fall off the bone. It melts in your mouth. None of this "pink lamb" for us.

PS be sure to try to wrap meat loosely or it may stick to the meat.

[willowman]

Sorry, that should be "stick to the foil"

[georgit79]

Trillipse- go to Lemonia and get the kleftico. I promise you you won't regret it!