Baked Lamb and Yogurt Sauce – Albanian Cuisine
Baked lamb and yogurt, Tav‘ Kosi, is an Albanian recipe for lamb.
Key Points
Ingredients:
- 1-1/2 lbs lamb
- 4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)
- 2 tablespoons rice
- Salt,
- pepper
For Yogurt sauce:
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)
- 2 lbs. yogurt
- 5 eggs
- Salt,
- pepper
Directions:
Cut meat in 4 serving pieces, sprinkle each piece with salt and pepper, and bake in a moderately-heated oven with half the butter, sprinkling the meat with its gravy now and then. When meat is half-baked, add rice; remove the baking pan from the oven and leave it aside while you prepare the yogurt sauce:
Saute flour in butter until mixed thoroughly. Mix yogurt with salt, pepper and eggs until a uniform mixture is obtained, and finally stir in the flour.
Put the sauce mixture in the baking pan; stir it with the meat pieces and bake at 375 degrees F for about 45 minutes. Serve hot.
Serves 4 people
