Pastry-wrapped Balkan Lamb

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    Six to Eight

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

  • About

This lamb roast, wrapped in a blanket of pastry and baked with garlic until golden, is a treat of the Jewish community in the Balkans.

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg/ lb shoulder roast of lamb, or if your butcher can kasher it, a leg of lamb, boned
  • 40 g

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5. To make the pastry, place the flour and vegetable shortening into a food processor or blender and process until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add enough iced water to make a soft, but not sticky, dough. Knead gent