Cookbook:Baked Lamb and Yogurt

| Cuisine of Albania | Lamb

Baked lamb and yogurt (tavë kosi), is an Albanian recipe.

Lamb

 * 1½ lb (680 g) lamb
 * 4 tablespoons (½ stick or 50 g) butter
 * 2 tablespoons (30 ml) rice
 * Salt
 * Pepper

Yogurt sauce

 * 1 tablespoon flour
 * 4 tablespoons (½ stick or 50 g) butter
 * 2 lb (900 g) yogurt
 * 5 eggs
 * Salt
 * Pepper

Procedure

 * 1) Cut meat into 4 serving pieces, and sprinkle each piece with salt and pepper. Bake in a moderately-heated oven with half the butter, basting the meat with its gravy now and then.
 * 2) When meat is half-baked, add rice. Remove the baking pan from the oven and leave it aside while you prepare the yogurt sauce.
 * 3) Sauté 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-butter mix. Put the sauce mixture in the baking pan; stir it with the meat pieces.
 * 4) Bake at 375°F (190°C) for about 45 minutes. Serve hot.