Thursday, March 27, 2008

Greek-style goat shanks with orzo



I made this a while back, but just didn't get around to posting it :(
This was my way of cooking the hard-to-get kosher goat shanks that Adam delivered to me from Sydney. (I understand it's amusing to go through security with frozen shanks).

Because of the natural 'lemony' taste of goat, I decided to go with a Greek-style recipe that uses lemon as well. I made a paste from garlic (lots), fresh oregano, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, chilli paste, s&p, lemon juice and olive oil. I put the paste on the shanks and baked them for a while (can't remember exactly - maybe 3/4 hour?) . Then I added chopped tomatoes, stock and a lemon cut into wedges, covered the dish with foil and continued to cook in the oven until the meat was tender.

About 10 minutes before the end, I added a cup of orzo.
The orzo soaked up all the juices and ended up with an amazing lemon flavour.

This was the first time I had ever cooked or eaten goat and it's definitely good meat. It was even great the next day :)

1 comment:

Adam said...

that sounds amazing!