🇬🇷 How to Make Kleftiko

Craving Kleftiko? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Kleftiko at home, in about 3 hrs, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1kg lamb shoulder, in big chunks
• 3 potatoes, quartered
• 2 cloves garlic, slivered
• 1 lemon, juice and zest
• 2 tsp dried oregano
• 100g feta, crumbled
• olive oil, salt, pepper

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Heat the oven to 160°C. Stab the lamb and push slivers of garlic into the holes.
2. Toss everything except the feta together with plenty of oil, lemon, oregano and seasoning.
3. Pile it into the middle of a big sheet of baking parchment set inside foil.
4. Seal it into a tight parcel. Kleftiko means 'stolen' — it was cooked buried so no smoke gave the thieves away, and the sealed parcel is the modern version.
5. Bake 2.5–3 hrs. Do not open it to check; the steam is doing the work.
6. Tear the parcel open at the table, scatter the feta over the top and let it melt in.