Kukurec
Description
Kukurec is a specialty in the south of Albania and Macedonia made with knitted lamb intestines, strips of lamb tripe, or lamb sweetbreads. The women in the south always make a great effort to prepare this dish for holidays or special occasions, cooking it either over the fire or in the oven.
Ingredients
- One lamb’s intestines
- 1-2 pounds lamb tripe and/or sweetbread
- 1 tbsp salt
- ½ tbsp black pepper
- ½ tbsp oregano
- ½ tbsp rosemary
Instructions
- 1 Thoroughly wash the intestines by flipping them inside-out, rinsing them, and then returning them to right-side-out and rinsing them once again.
- 2
Cut the tripe or sweetbreads into even pieces that are small enough to fit onto skewers. Thread all of the pieces onto skewers.- 3
Wrap the skewered meat with the intestines until the organ meat is completely covered.- 4
Season the skewers with salt, pepper, oregano, and rosemary.- 5
Cook the skewers either on the grill or in the oven. If you are roasting them in the oven, be sure to add half a cup of water to the pan.- 6
Serve immediately! - 2
