This dish can be served with green vegetables and gravy for an easy take on the traditional lamb roast or it can be served with a Greek salad for something a little bit different
Dad had gone to North London to buy the lambfor the kleftiko, and some Greek pastries which included one of my childhood favourites – κωκ – pronounced “coke”
The Greek Golden Kebab was a Southside institution. The Menu for Frosoulla’s can be found here. Cypriot “oven macaroni” version of the classic baked pasta dish, like lasagna but made with rigatoni, lots of lamb, herbs and a creamy béchamel sauce
It’s absolutely gorgeous and reminiscent of Greek holidays in the sunshine. The family were all out, so it was dinner for one, with a defrosted portion of Pinch of Nom Lamb Scouse
Anyway, it's all a memory, because here we are overcast and a bit chilly and whilst the heating isn't on the chances of my getting any washing dry are virtually nil, judging by the threatening furrows of grey cloud in the middle distance so, two fingers to you British weather, for the purposes of this blog post I am in Greece - Sunny, amazing, azure skied Greece
Apparently ‘Kleftiko’ is Greekfor ‘stolen meat’ and the story is that it would be a dish made by bandits who would steal a lamb and then cook it for a long time, sealed with mud in a hole underground so that no-one would suspect anything
A greek dish ~ a LambKleftiko, slow cooked lamb in the oven with distinctive flavours. Kleftiko being a Greek dish, I decided to serve it with some tzatziki in a wrap
