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Baked Lamb and Yogurt (Albanian Name: Tavë Kosi)

Lamb, yogurt and rice come together in this dish, baked in the oven.

1 hr 15 min · Serves 4 · Medium

Serves
4

Ingredients

Yogurt sauce

Time
Prep 30 min · Cook 45 min · 75 min total
Difficulty
medium
  1. 1

    Cooking Instructions:. 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:.

  2. 2

    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. Put the sauce mixture in the baking pan; sauté it with the meat pieces and bake at 375 degrees F for about 45 minutes. Serve hot.

    45 min

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