Recipes · Greek · Grilled Dishes
Kokoretsi
One serving has 378 kcal and 30 g protein, and at least a fifth of a woman's daily need of cobalamin (2560%), vitamin A (634%), copper (497%), riboflavin (255%), selenium (155%) and pantothenic acid (109%). Ready in 100 minutes.
- Preparation: 30 min
- Cooking: 70 min
- Makes: 1 serving (223 g)
- Difficulty: Hard
- Diets: Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Low carb
- Contains: meat, pork
Ingredients
- 60 g Lamb liver, raw
- 50 g Lamb heart, raw
- 30 g Lamb sweetbreads, raw
- 60 g Pork chitterlings, raw
- 8 g Olive oil
- 3 g Garlic, raw
- 0.5 g Oregano, dried
- 10 g Lemon juice
- 0.8 g Salt
- 0.2 g Black pepper
Method
- Kokoretsi is lamb offal wrapped in the lamb's cleaned intestines and turned slowly on a spit, above all at Greek Easter. Cleaned pork chitterlings (pig intestines, sold by many butchers) stand in here for the lamb intestines, which are hard to find outside Greece.
- Rinse the chitterlings very well inside and out under cold running water, then drain.
- Cut the liver, heart and sweetbreads into 3 cm pieces and toss them with the olive oil, crushed garlic, oregano, half the lemon juice, the salt and the pepper.
- Thread the offal tightly onto a long skewer (or two parallel ones), so it forms one compact log.
- Wrap the chitterlings around the log in a tight, overlapping spiral until it is covered, tucking the ends in.
- Grill over medium, indirect heat, or roast at 180 °C (350 °F), turning often, for 1-1¼ hours until the casing is crisp and deep golden and the offal is cooked through.
- Rest for 5 minutes, slice into rounds, sprinkle with the rest of the lemon juice and serve hot.
Nutrition per serving
| Nutrient | Per serving | Share of a day's need |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 378 kcal | 18% |
| Carbohydrates | 3.3 g | |
| Water | 160 mL | |
| Fiber | 0.36 g | 1% |
| Protein | 29.8 g | 62% |
| Tryptophan | 0.29 g | |
| Threonine | 1.1 g | |
| Isoleucine | 1.1 g | |
| Leucine | 2 g | |
| Lysine | 1.7 g | |
| Methionine | 0.51 g | |
| Cystine | 0.26 g | |
| Phenylalanine | 1.1 g | |
| Tyrosine | 0.8 g | |
| Valine | 1.3 g | |
| Histidine | 0.61 g | |
| Fat | 26.8 g | |
| Monounsaturated | 11.6 g | |
| Polyunsaturated | 2.3 g | |
| Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) | 0.02 g | |
| Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) | 0.02 g | |
| Omega-6 | 1.6 g | |
| Saturated | 9.3 g | |
| Trans-Fats | 0 g | |
| Cholesterol | 461 mg | |
| Calcium | 34.4 mg | 3% |
| Copper | 4.5 mg | 497% |
| Iron | 8.3 mg | 46% |
| Magnesium | 32.9 mg | 11% |
| Manganese | 0.28 mg | 16% |
| Phosphorus | 461 mg | 66% |
| Potassium | 514 mg | 11% |
| Selenium | 85.3 µg | 155% |
| Sodium | 434 mg | |
| Zinc | 5 mg | 62% |
| Thiamin (vitamin B1) | 0.42 mg | 38% |
| Riboflavin (vitamin B2) | 2.8 mg | 255% |
| Niacin (vitamin B3) | 14 mg | 100% |
| Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) | 5.5 mg | 109% |
| Pyridoxine (vitamin B6) | 0.81 mg | 62% |
| Folate (vitamin B9) | 148 µg | 37% |
| Cobalamin (vitamin B12) | 61.5 µg | 2560% |
| Choline | 1.4 mg | 0% |
| Vitamin A | 4,435 µg | 634% |
| Vitamin C | 15.8 mg | 21% |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3) | 0 IU | 0% |
| Vitamin E | 1.4 mg | 9% |
| Vitamin K | 8.3 µg | 9% |
Shares of a day's need are for a woman of 30, 165 cm, 60 kg, lightly active, by the US and Canadian Dietary Reference Intakes. SustainBite works out each person's own needs, by the standard where they live: the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations in Norway, the UK's, EFSA's in the EU.
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