Kleftiko
Kleftiko (Greek Κλέφτικο, kind of robber) is a traditional Greek stew of lamb or goat meat; it takes its name back to the Klephten (also Kleften ).
Because the rebellious Klephts had to hide and could not keep their own herds, they stole other people's cattle. During their raids, however, they did not forget that they were Greeks, which is why their devastation usually only struck the Turkish besiegers. They gardened the meat in cooking pits, whereby they had to operate this process in such a way that no rising smoke revealed their whereabouts.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ kleftiko | Definition of kleftiko in English by Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Modern Greek folk songs. epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de, pp. 34, 42 , accessed on November 6, 2017 .
- ^ Henrik Francke, Mikael Einarsson, Gustav Lindström: Into The Wild: The Outdoorküche . HEEL Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86852-971-5 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2017]).
- ↑ Cooking pit from the Neolithic Age - LVR Office for Ground Monument Preservation. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Peter, Ellen K. Jaeckel: Goats, gods, mountain beauties. Mysterious Crete . Picus Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7117-5127-0 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2017]).