Greek Country-Style Meat Recipe

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Greek Country-Style Meat Recipe

Ingredients

  • recipe for: Kreatopitta Horiatiki Country-Style Meat
  • Serving Size : 10
  • 1 onion – medium
  • 20 milliliters garlic – chopped
  • 2 tablespoons parsley – chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon mint – chopped
  • 2 hard cooked eggs
  • 3 pounds leg of lamb
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste + 1 cup water
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/2 pound kefalotiri cheese – grated
  • 2 eggs – lightly beaten
  • 3/4 pound phyllo

Method

  1. Chop onion and rinse it in strainer under running water; drain.
  2. Mix garlic with parsley and min Slice eggs thinly.
  3. Cut lamb from bone, then cut into very small pieces a little coarser than ground beef
  4. Lightly brown the lamb with the onions in 1/3 of the butter.
  5. Add tomato paste, salt and pepper, garlic, parsley, and mint, and mix well.
  6. Simmer for about 30 min Remove from heat.
  7. Add cheese and lightly beaten eggs and mix again.
  8. Melt remaining butter.
  9. Butter a baking pan about 2 smaller that the phyllo sheets.
  10. Use 9 phyllo sheets for the bottom, buttering each well before laying in pan.
  11. Do not trim them.
  12. Pour meat mixture over the phyllo, spreading it evenly.
  13. Place sliced eggs on top of the meat.
  14. Fold the overhanging edges of the phyllo sheets onto the filling.
  15. Butter them well.
  16. Add remaining sheets to form top crust, again buttering each sheet before using it.
  17. Score top lightly with sharp, pointed knife into serving-size pieces.
  18. Pour on any remaining butter.
  19. Bake in preheated 300 F oven for about 1 hour.
  20. Let cool for 30 min; cut through, and serve.
  21. Serves 8 to 10.

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