Tavë kosi
Albania’s national dish, born in Elbasan: baked lamb with rice, covered with a layer of yoghurt and egg that turns golden like a soufflé.
Ingredients
- 1 kg lamb in pieces (leg or shoulder)
- 50 g rice
- 80 g butter
- 3 garlic cloves
- Oregano
- For the topping: 1 kg Greek yoghurt, 4 eggs, 50 g flour, 50 g butter
- Salt and pepper
How to make it at home
- Salt the lamb, rub it with butter, garlic and oregano and roast it in a dish at 200 °C for 1 hour, adding a little water.
- Add the rice to the juices in the dish and bake for 15 minutes more.
- For the topping, toast the flour in the butter and let it cool slightly. Whisk the yoghurt with the eggs and mix with the flour.
- Pour the yoghurt over the lamb and rice.
- Bake at 180 °C for about 30 minutes, until the top is golden.
The trick: Let it rest for a few minutes: the yoghurt layer settles.