Zette Guinaudeau-Franc

Mechoui

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
Traditional Moroccan Cooking: Recipes from Fez
Traditional Moroccan Cooking

By Zette Guinaudeau-Franc

Published 1995

  • About

This famous way of cooking mutton does not actually come into the recipes used by the Fassi, so I am giving it as an extra apart from Fez and its cooking.

Method

Choose a young sheep — fat, but not too big.

‘Bsmillah’ — plunge the knife into the carotid artery and let the blood spurt out to the last drop. Wash the gash in the throat seven times. Make a hole with the point of the knife just above the knee joint of one of the back legs between flesh and skin. Put a stick in this