Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, kleftico (in a slow cooker). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook kleftico (in a slow cooker) using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Kleftico (in a slow cooker):
- Take 2 Kg Leg of mutton or Shoulder of Lamb
- Get 1 big onion
- Take Lots of garlic
- Take Half a jar of pesto
- Take 2 cans plum tomatos
- Get Lots of Rosemary
Deglaze the pan with a splash of the white wine and transfer to the slow cooker. Add the lemon slice, cinnamon stick, bay leaves and fresh thyme and top with the seared lamb. Pour in the stock, remaining wine and vinegar. Put the meat, marinade, salt, tomato and cinnamon stick into the slow cooker.
Steps to make Kleftico (in a slow cooker):
- First pre heat the slow cooker. Then cut the mutton into 4 or 5 big chunks and brown in a thick pan. Make sure there is bit of fat on the meat. Without some fat it wont be nice.
- When the meat is nice and brown add chopped garlic onion tomato and pesto and bring to the boil
- Put 4 or 5 sprigs of Rosemary into a pre heated slow cooker
- Then pour the meat and liquid on top. This way the Rosemary infuses lots of flavour into the meat as it cooks.
- Cook on low for HOURS. I did mine for 6 hours but longer is OK too
- At the end of the cooking time I had far too much liquid so I returned it to the pot and reduced the liquid on a high heat.
- I served with a potato & veg crush. You could do rice or roast spuds too if you want.
Pour in the stock, remaining wine and vinegar. Put the meat, marinade, salt, tomato and cinnamon stick into the slow cooker. Pour the water into the slow cooker pot, add the potatoes and the lamb shanks. Lamb Kleftiko is the original Greek slow cooked lamb recipe. Nothing will send your tastebuds to a Greek Cypriot taverna quicker than lamb kleftiko.
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