Spicy Lamb Exohiko Greek Lamb Stuffed Phyllo Food

STUFFED GREEK LEG OF LAMB

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Lay out the leg of lamb on cutting board with the inside of the lamb facing you. Drizzle olive oil evenly over the lamb. Sprinkle oregano and basil over the lamb. Top lamb with artichoke hearts, feta cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, and garlic; season with salt and pepper.
• Roll the lamb around the stuffing. Bundle the lamb with kitchen twine to keep from unrolling. Wrap lamb in aluminum foil and place in a baking dish.
• Roast in preheated oven to your desired degree of doneness, or an internal temperature of 150 degrees F (70 degrees C) for medium, about 90 minutes. Set aside to rest in a warm area for 10 minutes before slicing. Reserve pan juices for serving.

SPICY LAMB EXOHIKO - GREEK LAMB STUFFED PHYLLO

Steps:

• Trim the fat off the leg of lamb.
• Rub with olive oil, salt, pepper, oregano, and thyme.
• In a skillet over low heat, pour in 2-3 tablespoons olive oil and caramelize the onions and garlic.
• Cool down and rub all over the lamb.
• Wrap the leg of lamb tightly in plastic wrap. It needs to be air tight.
• Braise at 85 degrees C (185 degrees F) for about 10 hours until tender.
• For the farci: Caramelize the onions and garlic and hold on the side.
• Pull the leg of lamb into bite-size pieces.
• Season with salt, pepper, oregano, and thyme and dust with flour.
• Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a sauté pan until hot and add the meat.
• Crisp.
• Add the lamb cuisson, reduce, and emulsify with the extra-virgin olive oil. Add the onions and garlic, mix well, and cool down.
• Add the cheese to the farci and mix well.
• Roll the mixture into two layers of phyllo, making sure to brush each layer with clarified butter.
• Bake until crisp and golden.
• Let cool and cut when warm into serving pieces.

SPICY LEG OF LAMB

Steps:

• The objective: A nice, pink, juicy leg of lamb has a final temperature of about 120 degrees F. Use a shallow roasting pan or baking sheet with a fitted rack. Elevating the lamb slightly off the bottom of the roasting pan allows the hot air to better circulate around the meat as it cooks.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Toast the spices: In a medium bowl, combine the cayenne, fennel seeds, dry mustard, paprika, red pepper flakes and cinnamon. Mix the spices and pour them out onto a baking sheet. Place the tray inside the oven for 1 minute to warm the spices and allow them to toast slightly. This will awaken their flavors. Remove the tray from the oven.
• Make the paste to coat the leg of lamb: In a small bowl, combine the olive oil, molasses and salt. Add the toasted spices and mix together to create a paste. Coat all sides of the leg in the seasoning paste. If you have time, allow the lamb to sit out for about an hour and come closer to room temperature. Alternatively, you can marinate the lamb like this for several hours (or overnight) in the refrigerator before cooking.
• Cook the lamb: Place the lamb leg in the center of the fitted rack on the roasting pan and place it in the center of the oven. Cook, undisturbed, for 30 minutes. Use an instant-read meat thermometer and take the temperature of the thickest part of the leg meat. Your meat thermometer should read about 85 degrees F. Cook for an additional 30 minutes. Ideally, the thickest part of the leg should come to about 118 degrees F. Remove the lamb from the roasting pan to a flat surface to rest.
• Make the sauce: In a medium bowl, whisk together vinegar and mustard. Place the fresh chiles on a flat surface and, with a small knife, cut them both into thin rounds, ribs, seeds and all.
• Pour off some of the drippings from the bottom of the roasting pan. Put the pan on top of a burner on your stove. Start a low heat under the pan and when the drippings begin to sizzle, add in the mustard, vinegar and fresh chiles. Taste for seasoning. Pour over the leg of lamb.
• Carve the meat: Begin carving at the loin end of the leg; you want to carve at a right-angle relative to the grain of the meat. Observe that this meat has lines almost like a piece of wood, aim the blade of your knife at a right-angle to the grain and slice thin pieces. Arrange the slices on a platter with the sauce.

LAMB IN PHYLLO PASTRY

Steps:

• Heat the oil with 1/4 cup of the butter in a skillet. Add the chopped onion and garlic, and fry for a couple of minutes. Add the mushrooms and cook a little longer. Add the parsley, mint, chives, thyme, lemon juice, salt and pepper, and bread crumbs and fry until the crumbs begin to brown. Remove from the pan and set aside. Remove the bone from the chops, place into the skillet, and sear both sides.
• Work with 3 (8 by 8-inch) sheets of phyllo pastry at a time (if they are bigger there is too much overlap), and cover the rest with a damp cloth to prevent them from drying out. Melt the remaining 1/4 cup butter. Brush each sheet with melted butter before covering with the next sheet. When you have buttered 3 sheets, place a lamb chop in the middle, add a quarter of the mushroom stuffing, and fold the phyllo pastry over to make a parcel. Repeat with the remaining lamb chops and phyllo pastry. (When you are making the parcel make sure the ones you have done remain covered with a damp cloth.)
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Put the parcels on a baking sheet and cook them in the oven for 10 minutes. Reduce the heat to 325 degrees F and cook for a further 30 minutes or until pastry is golden brown.;

LAMB EXOHIKO

Steps:

• Cut the lamb in portions.
• Simmer the onion in a frying pan with a little water.
• Add a teaspoon of butter and brown lightly.
• Add the lamb and salt& pepper and brown for a few more minutes.
• Turn the element off, add the cheese and separate in portions.
• Butter each sheet of pastry and use them to wrap each portion.
• Place in a buttered pan, top with the rest of the butter and bake in medium-low oven for 1 1/2 hour.

SPICY GRILLED LAMB CHOPS

Steps:

• place all ingredients, except lamb chops in sauce pan. boil 10 minutes.
• place lamb chops in deep glass dish and pour sauce over them. marinate 1 hour.
• preheat barbecue at med-high.
• oil grill and add lamb chops. cover and cook 6 to 7 minutes on each side. after meat is seared, season well and baste with marinade durning cooking.