Filled & Roasted Lamb from Alto Douro
Cabrito Assado & Recheado à moda do Alto Douro
Ingredients:
Ingredientes:
1 Milk Lamb (4 - 4.5kg)
1 Cabrito de leite (4 a 4,5 Kg)
4 lemons
1 Cabrito de leite (4 a 4,5 Kg)
4 lemons
4 limões
Laurel Leaves
Laurel Leaves
Folhas de louro
0.5kg of minced cow meat
0.5kg of minced cow meat
0,5 Kg de carne de vaca picada
0.5kg of miced pork meat
0.5kg of miced pork meat
0,5 Kg de carne de porco picada
100g of minced or diced bacon
100g of minced or diced bacon
100 gr de bacon picado
100g of minced or diced chorizo
100g of minced or diced chorizo
100 gr de chouriço de carne picado
30g of green olives (no center piece)
30g of green olives (no center piece)
30 gr Azeitonas verdes sem caroço
30g of black olives (no center piece)
30g of black olives (no center piece)
30 gr Azeitonas pretas sem caroço
1 onion
1 onion
1 Cebola
Olive Oil
Olive Oil
Azeite
Garlic
Garlic
Alho
1 cube of meat stock
1 cube of meat stock
1 caldo de carne
Salt
Salt
Sal
Paprika
Pimentão
Lard oil
Banha
Margerine
Margerine
Margarina
Method:
Preparação:
Buy a milk lamb and ask to take the whole lamb for filling. Once home, remove the head and the interiors and wash the lamb very well. In a large container place the lamb to marinate for 8 - 12 hours, in water with salt, lemon juice, lemon zest and laurel leaves. The marinating process is extremely important since it whitenes the meat and brings out the flavours.
Preparação:
Buy a milk lamb and ask to take the whole lamb for filling. Once home, remove the head and the interiors and wash the lamb very well. In a large container place the lamb to marinate for 8 - 12 hours, in water with salt, lemon juice, lemon zest and laurel leaves. The marinating process is extremely important since it whitenes the meat and brings out the flavours.
Comprar um cabrito de leite e solicitar que pretende
levar inteiro para rechear. Chegando a casa retire a cabeça e os miúdos e lave
muito bem o cabrito, num alguidar grande coloque o cabrito de molho (8 a 12
horas), em água com sal, sumo de limão, casca de limão e folhas de louro. A
marinada é muito importante porque torna a carne do cabrito branca e saborosa.
The previous removed interiors may be used for the filling but this can be optional. The liver may be diced never processed, the clean kidneys and heart rinsed of fat and imediately stored in the fridge.
The previous removed interiors may be used for the filling but this can be optional. The liver may be diced never processed, the clean kidneys and heart rinsed of fat and imediately stored in the fridge.
Os miúdos do cabrito podem ser usados no recheio mas é
opcional, o fígado deve ser cortado em quadradinhos e nunca triturado, os rins
e o coração limpos da gordura envolvente e guardados de imediato no
frigorífico.
For the filling:
Preparação do recheio:
Finely chop an onion and 2 garlic cloves, place in a deep pan and and 3 to 4 soup spoons of olive oil, stir fry for a few seconds. Add the diced minced meat, the chorizo and bacon previously diced and at last the reserved interior of the lamb. Ass the meat stock and the olives finely chopped. Leve to cook and a low heat during 30 minutes. Taste and adjust the salt and add to desert spoons of culinary margerine. Leave to cool and reserve in the fridge.
Preparação do recheio:
Finely chop an onion and 2 garlic cloves, place in a deep pan and and 3 to 4 soup spoons of olive oil, stir fry for a few seconds. Add the diced minced meat, the chorizo and bacon previously diced and at last the reserved interior of the lamb. Ass the meat stock and the olives finely chopped. Leve to cook and a low heat during 30 minutes. Taste and adjust the salt and add to desert spoons of culinary margerine. Leave to cool and reserve in the fridge.
Picar a cebola e 2 dentes de alho para 1 tacho fundo
adicionar 3 a 4 colheres de sopa de azeite e deixar refogar até apurar.
Adicionar a carne picada, o chouriço e o bacon picado e por fim os miúdos do
cabrito que foram reservados e guardados no frigorífico. Juntar o caldo de
carne e as azeitonas sem caroço e partidas em tiras. Deixar cozinhar em lume
lento durante 30 minutos. Provar e adicionar sal q.b. e 2 colheres de sobremesa
de margarina culinária. Deixar cozinhar em lume muito brando cerca de 30
minutos. Deixar arrefecer e guardar no frigorífico.
Method for roasting the lamb in the oven:
Method for roasting the lamb in the oven:
Preparação do cabrito para assar no forno:
Remove the lamb after 12 hours from the marinate and dry imediately to remove all the water.
Carefully place the lamb in a roasting tray (oven apropriate) and season with the previously prepared paste.
Remove the lamb after 12 hours from the marinate and dry imediately to remove all the water.
Carefully place the lamb in a roasting tray (oven apropriate) and season with the previously prepared paste.
Retire o cabrito após cerca de 12 horas de molho e deve
ser de imediato cuidadosamente seco para retirar toda a água.
Coloque o cabrito na assadeira do forno e deve
temperá-lo de imediato com a seguinte pasta que preparou previamente.
Method for the lamb seasoning paste:
Method for the lamb seasoning paste:
Pasta de tempero:
3 soup spoons of lard oil
3 soup spoons of lard oil
3 colheres de sopa de banha de porco
1 spoon of culinary margerine
1 spoon of culinary margerine
1 colher de margarina culinária
2 spoons of olive oil
2 spoons of olive oil
2 colheres de azeite
2 tea spoons of paprika
2 tea spoons of paprika
2 colheres de chá de pimentão
3 - 4 garlic cloves
3 - 4 garlic cloves
3 a 4 cabeças de alho picadas
1 tea spoon of salt
1 tea spoon of salt
1 colher de chá de sal
A few drops of piri piri
Piripiri umas gotas
This seasoning paste should be evenly spread over the lamb, over the entire exterior part.
A few drops of piri piri
Piripiri umas gotas
This seasoning paste should be evenly spread over the lamb, over the entire exterior part.
A pasta de tempero deve ser espalhada na superfície do
cabrito de modo a untar toda a parte exterior.
Remove the filling from the fridge and warm it slightly mixing with a spoon, place the filling inside the lamb, in order to fill the whole abdominal part and thoratic area. The open area of the lamb must be sewed and closed with a needle and thread before going in the oven. Two potatoes can be place in the bottom area of the lamb so the filling with not leek in the oven.
Remove the filling from the fridge and warm it slightly mixing with a spoon, place the filling inside the lamb, in order to fill the whole abdominal part and thoratic area. The open area of the lamb must be sewed and closed with a needle and thread before going in the oven. Two potatoes can be place in the bottom area of the lamb so the filling with not leek in the oven.
Retire o recheio do frigorífico e aqueça ligeiramente
mexendo com uma colher, coloque o recheio no interior do cabrito de modo a
rechear toda a zona abdominal e torácica. A zona aberta do cabrito tem de ser
cosida com linha antes de ir ao forno.
O cabrito recheado pode levar 2 batatinhas a selar a
zona do rabo para que o recheio não possa sair.
Place the lamb in the oven during 3 - 4 hours at 180º -200º C, watch closely so in becomes toasted on one side and they turned around to toast te other side. while the lamb is cooking, occassionaly with the aid of a laddle place the sauce over the roast.
Place the lamb in the oven during 3 - 4 hours at 180º -200º C, watch closely so in becomes toasted on one side and they turned around to toast te other side. while the lamb is cooking, occassionaly with the aid of a laddle place the sauce over the roast.
Leve o cabrito ao forno durante 3 a 4 horas a cerca de
180º - 200º C, deve vigiar de forma a ficar tostado de um lado e depois virado
para tostar do outro lado. Durante o tempo que está no forno deve regar com o
molho do assado.
Tricks and Secrets:
Tricks and Secrets:
Truques e Segredos:
Remove from the oven once fully roasted and leave outiside for aprox. 20 minutes, pour a glass of port wine and place once again in the oven.
Remove from the oven once fully roasted and leave outiside for aprox. 20 minutes, pour a glass of port wine and place once again in the oven.
Retirar do forno quando estiver assado e deixar fora do
forno cerca de 20 minutos, regar com um cálice de Porto levando novamente ao forno.
This is a traditional dish of the Alto Douro, region of Portugal, generally eated with a oven cooked rice and sauteed greens.
This is a traditional dish of the Alto Douro, region of Portugal, generally eated with a oven cooked rice and sauteed greens.
Este prato tradicional do Alto Douro é geralmente
acompanhado de arroz de forno e grelos salteados.
I recomend this dish to be served with very cold dry sparkling wine, or a gently & fruted red wine from the Douro region.
I recomend this dish to be served with very cold dry sparkling wine, or a gently & fruted red wine from the Douro region.
Recomendo que seja servido com um vinho espumante seco
bem gelado ou um tinto do Douro suave e frutado.
HACCP tips:
HACCP tips:
Dicas de Segurança alimentar:
Dry the lamb very well after the marinate with the aid of a towel and paper, so to, remove all the water and lowering the water activity (aW) and season imediately so to begin a good conservation process.
Secar muito bem o cabrito marinado com uma toalha limpa e papel de forma a retirar toda a água diminuindo a atividade da água (Aw) e temperar de imediato para iniciar um processo de conservação.
Secar muito bem o cabrito marinado com uma toalha limpa e papel de forma a retirar toda a água diminuindo a atividade da água (Aw) e temperar de imediato para iniciar um processo de conservação.
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