Kleftico (in a slow cooker)
Kleftico (in a slow cooker)

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, kleftico (in a slow cooker). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Kleftico (in a slow cooker) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Kleftico (in a slow cooker) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Kleftiko is a traditional Greek recipe for tender slow cooked lamb. The name translates as 'bandit's lamb', meat that was stolen and cooked in a pit to avoid detection. These days, it is simply seasoned lamb that's slow-cooked with potatoes until it is so tender it falls off the bone. Lamb Kleftiko is the original Greek slow cooked lamb recipe.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have kleftico (in a slow cooker) using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Kleftico (in a slow cooker):
  1. Get 2 Kg Leg of mutton or Shoulder of Lamb
  2. Make ready 1 big onion
  3. Make ready Lots of garlic
  4. Make ready Half a jar of pesto
  5. Make ready 2 cans plum tomatos
  6. Get Lots of Rosemary

Skim off any fat and serve. Swap your traditional roast lamb for Rick Stein's Greek slow-cooked lamb kleftiko. Enjoy leftovers the next day in warm flatbread. Last summer my manager decided to go for holidays in Greece.

Instructions to make Kleftico (in a slow cooker):
  1. 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. Kleftico (in a slow cooker)1. When the meat is nice and brown add chopped garlic onion tomato and pesto and bring to the boil
  2. Put 4 or 5 sprigs of Rosemary into a pre heated slow cooker
  3. Then pour the meat and liquid on top. This way the Rosemary infuses lots of flavour into the meat as it cooks.
  4. Cook on low for HOURS. I did mine for 6 hours but longer is OK too
  5. 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.
  6. I served with a potato & veg crush. You could do rice or roast spuds too if you want.

Enjoy leftovers the next day in warm flatbread. Last summer my manager decided to go for holidays in Greece. He did travel to some places but stayed longer at Paros where he surfed and did try a lot of the local dishes but also some more traditional ones. Lamb kleftiko is a very easy recipe to make. You can cook lamb kleftiko in the oven or in a crockpot or slow cooker.

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