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Lamb: Lamb Fricasse

Lamb fricasse is a very popular and tasty traditional Greek recipe, made mainly with lamb (although you can find alternative versions with chicken or veal), and lots of greens and herbs. What makes really delicious though  is the egg lemon sauce that comes in the end.

 

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cuisine: Greece
course/dish: Main Dish
main ingredients: Egg
preparation time:
90 - 120 minutes
servings: 6-8

ingredients

2 kg of lamb with the bone, cut into large cubes (tas kebab)
1 kg of mountain greens (including white beet, sweet radish, black mustard)
1 bottle of good quality retsina, concentrated
olive oil
juice of two lemons
butter from sheeps milk and olive oil
some finely chopped spring onion
bouquet garni

For the Sabayon sauce
3 egg yolks
juice of 1 lemon
some stock

instructions

  • Finely chop spring onion

1.  Prepare a stock from the bones and the aromatic bouquet garni.

2.  Boil the mountain greens until "al dente" in half of the stock.

3.  Sauté the lamb in butter and then add to the other half of stock.

4.  Add the vegetable stock to the lamb oven when it is ready.

5.  Cook the lamb until most of the liquid has evaporated. Retain some of the liquid.

6.  When the lamb is done add the finely chopped spring onion and the concentrated retsina.

7. Combine the stock retained from the lamb with the egg yolks, lemon juice, and some retsina over a pan of boiling water (bain marie).

8.  Serve the meat in portions with the greens; pour the sauce over and a little aromatic oil (prepared with fresh greens, salt, pepper and olive oil put through a blender and then strained).

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