WebMay 20, 2020 - Swap your traditional roast lamb for Rick Stein's Greek slow-cooked lamb kleftiko. Roasted for over 2 hours with garlic, tomatoes, peppers and potatoes, the lamb …
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RICK STEIN'S LAMB KLEFTIKO RECIPE
Kleftiko is a simple, classic Greek dish of lamb and potatoes. The lamb is marinated overnight, then wrapped in baking paper with potatoes, onions and herbs and slow-roasted until the meat is falling off the bone. Read more about sharing. Place the lamb in a large dish and drizzle with plenty of olive oil.
While the most traditional Kleftiko is prepared using a bone-in leg of lamb, there are many different styles of preparing the meat that have long and gentle cooking in common. Legend has it that lamb Kleftiko, meaning stolen lamb or lamb in the style of the klephts, originated in the thievery of bandits known as the klephts.
The sugary heat of Giannopoulos’s red onion works similarly brilliantly with the savoury lamb. Stein adds crumbled feta to his kleftiko, inspired by the one served at a restaurant in Symi, and Giannopoulos goes for kefalotyri, a very versatile hard yellow cheese that, to my surprise, I find in the supermarket,...