Gnummarieddi

Young lamb’s pluck and gut cooked on the spit

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Patience Gray

Published 1986

  • About

I mentioned the Naxian version splína ke kokorétsi katsikíou (in La Merenda) without perhaps giving it its due. Skill is required in its preparation, confirmed by this quotation from Kevin AndrewsFlight of Ikaros:

Method

Clean the pluck from a month-old lamb: spleen (milza), heart (cuore), liver (fegato), lungs (polmone) and slice them neatly on a board.

Open the gut, rub it well with salt, then wash in tepid acidulated water. Sprinkle with flour and wash again. Rinse several times, then dry the gut. Cut it into 8" lengths (20 cm) and lay the strips on a board. Lay across eac