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A dish with lamb meat that was common throughout Cyprus. The cauliflower is marinated in wine, and the rest of the marinade is used to cook the food, creating a delicious and aromatic sauce.
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1 kg of lamb cut into portions
½ cup of red dry wine
1 tbsp tomato paste
2-3 grated tomatoes
Salt, pepper
Corn oil
Add the corn oil to a pan to heat and then fry the meat. Add the wine and bring to boil. Add the tomatoes, the tomato paste dissolved in 2 cups of water and salt and pepper. Let the food simmer over low heat until the sauce thickens. (Dimitris Perikleous, Cooking Cypriots 2013-2014)
Additional information and bibliography
Recording: Dimitris Pericleous (12 years old, student of Tsirios High School) from oral testimony from his grandmother (65 years old, place of origin: Limnatis Limassol). See Cyprus Food and Nutrition Museum (2014). Cooking Cypriot food 2012-2013 (ed. Petroula Hadjittofi), unpublished data.
Petroula Hadjittofi
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