"Small recipe book of traditional cuisine"

Kokoretsi

This is a dish

made
of intestines of lamb
typical of Greek Orthodox
Easter tradition.

In this version

we will use the oven,
but much more common throughout Greece
is to cook it on a spit over charcoal of olive wood.

Ingredients

lamb internals

(liver,heart,lungs, sweetbreads,kidneys )
small intestine
 

salt
pepper
oregano
wooden spits

olive oil

lemon
 

Preparation

we cut the intestines, the sweetbreads, the heart, the lungs and the kidneys in pieces (all thoroughly cleaned), and we season them with salt, pepper and oregano.

They are then put onto a spit (alternating the different parts) in the form of a large souvlaki.
After that, the small intestine is used to cover the pieces of the internals by winding it around the spit, starting from one end and forming various “8” till we reach the other end.

The kokoretsi is then ready to roast in the oven with oil and lemon.