Cypriot Slowed Cooked Lamb/Goat
- 1 12 kg leg of lamb
- 1 (450 g) tomatoes, crushed
- 1 cup water
- 1 kg potato, peeled
- 500 g green beans
- 15 allspice, whole
- 2 garlic cloves
- 4 bay leaves
- 1 cup white wine
- 14 cup olive oil
- salt and pepper
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 12 cup risoni
- 200 g kefalotyri, cubed
- Preheat oven to 200C.
- Slice the garlic cloves into slivers and with a sharp knife make slits in the joint and push in a sliver of garlic.
- Repeat until you have used all the garlic.
- Rub salt and pepper into the joint.
- Place in a large baking dish and drizzle with the oil and white wine.
- Stick the bay leaves around the joint.
- Place in oven and cook for 10 mins then turn down oven to 180C and cook for 30 mins basting ocassionally.
- In the mean time peel the potatoes and cut into serving size if the they are very large.
- Top and tail the bean but don't cut them.
- Heat the crushed tomatoes adding the sugar, water and pimento berries.
- Remove baking dish from oven add the hot tomatoes along with the potatoes and beans.
- Return to the oven and cook for 1 hour.
- Again remove the baking pan from the oven and scatter around the risoni pushing it down into the sauce.
- Scatter the cheese.
- Cook a further 20-30 mins testing that the risoni is cooked through.
- Remove from the oven and lift out the joint and rest for 10 mins before carving.
- Put the baking pan back in the oven to keep warm while meat is resting.
- Plate up and serve with crusty bread.
lamb, tomatoes, water, potato, allspice, garlic, bay leaves, white wine, olive oil, salt, sugar, risoni, kefalotyri
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/cypriot-slowed-cooked-lamb-goat-425269 (may not work)