Kleftiko

This classic dish is named after the notorious ‘klephtes’ or bandits who stole mountain sheep or goats for food, cooked in sealed pots to avoid any smoke giving them away! A rustic dish, left to cook until the meat falls away from the bone, I, like many Greeks, cook Kleftiko in our clay dome oven outside, but a large roasting tin with foil to cover works just as well in a conventional oven.