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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. For stuffing: | 2. Combine all ingredients and blend well. | 3. Cover and refrigerate. | 4. For pastry: | 5. Disolve sugar and yeast in warm water and let stand until foamy and proofed. | 6. Combine flour and salt in large bowl. | 7. Using your hands, rub butter into flour until it is absorbed. | 8. Make well in the center of flour and pour in yeast and milk. | 9. Still using hands,push flour from sides of bowl into center and mix to form dough. | 10. Knead several minutes until smooth. | 11. Place in lightly oiled bowl and turn to coat. | 12. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand in warm area until doubled, about 1 hour. | 13. For lamb: | 14. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. | 15. Set butterflied lamb skin side down on working surface. | 16. Pound to flatten slightly. | 17. Mix butter,garlic,salt and pepper to a paste; rub half thoroughly into lamb. | 18. Spread with stuffing and reshape leg. | 19. Sew closed with string;tie crosswise at 1 inch intervals and twice around length to hold stuffing. | 20. Rub outside with remaining butter mixture, then rub with rosemary. | 21. Set on rack in roasting pan and roast 20 minutes. | 22. Reduce oven temperature to 350 and roast an additional 40 minutes. | 23. Let cool, then remove string and brush off excess rosemary. | 24. * Lamb can be prepared ahead to this point. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate up to 24 hours.Don't start the pastry until you take the lamb out of the refrigerator. | 25. Lightly oil shallow roasting pan. | 26. Knead dough once again. | 27. Roll out enough dough on lightly floured surface to make rectangle 1/4 inch thick, large enough to completely enclose lamb with a 1 inch overlap. | 28. Set lamb on one end of rectangle. | 29. Beat yolks with milk and brush some on edges of dough;fold dough over lamb. | 30. Press seams together; trim and reserve excess dough. | 31. Set seam side down in roasting pan and brush with some of yolk. | 32. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Roll excess dough into long thin ropes. Braid in threes to go around top perimeter of lamb. | 33. Remaining dough can also be made into smaller and thinner ropes and/or worked into more intricate designs such as leaves,tiny birds, flowers and coiled snakes inside the encircling braid, all symbols of Easter in Greece. | 34. Brush decorations with yolk mixture. | 35. Bake until pastry sets, about 15 minutes. | 36. Reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees and bake an additional 20 to 30 minutes(use a meat thermometer to check doneness). | 37. Transfer to heated platter and garnish with fresh mint sprigs, if desired. | 38. Let stand several minutes before slicing. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
pork	3/4	lb	ground lean	1279.152	0.0	47.3218	119.3081
green onion	3		chopped	57.51	12.2262	2.0661	1.0011
egg	1		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
parsley	1/2	cup	chopped	10.8	1.899	0.8909999999999999	0.237
orange peel	1	tablespoon	minced	5.82	1.5	0.09	0.012
cumin	3/4	teaspoon		5.9063	0.6968	0.2805	0.3508
salt	1/2	teaspoon	ground	-	-	-	-
pepper	1/2	teaspoon	ground	2.8865	0.7354	0.1195	0.0375
sugar	2	tablespoons		110.124	27.5448	0.0	0.0
active yeast	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
water	1/2	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
purpose flour	6	cups		-	-	-	-
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	1/2	cup		256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
milk	1 1/2	cups		223.26	17.4948	11.529000000000002	11.9682
leg lamb	1		trimmed boned	1043.28	0.0	81.2398	77.4295
butter	3	tablespoons	softened	256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
garlic clove	2 -3		minced	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1/4	teaspoon	ground	2.8865	0.7354	0.1195	0.0375
rosemary	1	tablespoon	crushed dried	2.227	0.3519	0.0563	0.0996
egg yolk	1			54.74	0.6103	2.6962	4.5118
milk	1	tablespoon		223.26	17.4948	11.529000000000002	11.9682

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.