Kleftiko
Lamb baked five hours in sealed clay with not a drop of water.
Ingredients
For 6 servings · tick what is ready
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How to make it
Cut deep slits into the lamb and push a sliver of garlic into each.
Rub the meat with salt, pepper, oregano, olive oil and lemon juice.
Leave the lamb to marinate in the fridge for at least four hours.
Cut the potatoes into large wedges and lay them in the base of a clay dish.
Set the meat on the potatoes and add the bay, cinnamon and lemon halves.
Cover it and seal the join with a strip of dough or a double layer of foil.
Bake at 160 °C for five hours without opening it and rest it twenty minutes.
About this recipe
By UniTools · Source: UniTools — theunitools.com. Recipe content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Haydn Blackey · CC BY-SA 4.0