Tavë Kosi (Baked Lamb and Yogurt)

Ingredients

• •11/2 pounds lamb
• •4 tablespoons butter
• •2 tablespoons rice
• •Salt, pepper
• •For Yogurt sauce:
• •1 tablespoon flour
• •4 tablespoons butter
• •2 pounds yogurt
• •5 eggs
• •Salt, pepper

Directions

1. 1Cut meat in 4 serving pieces, sprinkle each piece with salt and pepper, and bake in a moderately heated oven with half the butter, sprinkling the meat with its gravy now and then. When meat is half-baked, add rice; remove the baking pan from the oven and leave it aside while you prepare the yogurt sauce.
2. 2To prepare the yogurt sauce, sauté flour in butter until mixing thoroughly. Mix yogurt with salt, pepper and eggs until a uniform mixture is obtained, and finally stir in the flour. Put the sauce mixture in the baking pan; stir it with the meat pieces and bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for about 45 minutes. Serve hot.
3. 3Yields: 4 servings