Slow Cooked Kid with Ras el Hanout and Yogurt and Wild Garlic Tzatziki
A delicious slow cooked kid recipe from National Chef of the Year Finalist, Kuba Winkowski, who leads the kitchen at the highly-rated Feathered Nest Country Inn in the Cotswolds. Here he shares an elaborate African goat dish featured on James Martin’s Saturday Kitchen.
- For the kid shoulder, chop wild garlic leaf and anchovies together.
- Season whole shoulder (outside and inside) with salt, ras el hanout, sumac and ground black pepper.
- Rub chopped wild garlic and anchovies inside the shoulder, where the bones used to be.
- Put the shoulder together to form a neat, tight shape.
- Secure with some butcher string to hold it together.
- If you have time leave it to marinate for 24 hours.
- Optional: before cooking seal it in the hot barbeque or hot frying pan.
- For the freekeh, cut all vegetables and apricots into pieces about 1cm big.
- Warm up the olive oil in a casserole dish (big enough to fit the whole shoulder), fry all the vegetables and apricots on a high heat, to give it a bit of colour, for about 5 minutes.
- Add pureed garlic cloves, salt, black pepper, ras el hanout, sumac and tomato puree. Cook out for few minutes.
- Add the freekeh and white wine, stir and bring to rapid boil. Boil for 2 minutes to evaporate the alcohol.
- Add hot stock and bouquet garni made out by wrapping rosemary, thyme, bay leaf and peppercorns in leek leaf or muslin (secure with string).
- Stir it all well and place kid shoulder on top.
- Put the lid on and make sure it sit tightly.
- Place in the pre heated oven at 100C for 10 hours (if in the hurry 150C for 5 hours).
- When ready lift the shoulder out, remove all the string and cut into slices.
- Finish the freekeh with chopped mint, coriander and lemon juice.
- To prepare the tzatziki, grate the cucumber on a coarse grater and season with a pinch of salt. Leave on a sieve to release water for about 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile blanch wild garlic (leave 5 raw leaves aside) in boiling water for 10 seconds and drain, dry and chop.
- Mix goat’s milk yoghurt with blanched wild garlic, squeezed cucumber and chopped raw wild garlic leaf.
Serves 6
For the Billy Kid shoulder:
1 Billy kid shoulder, bone out
1 handful wild garlic (30g)
4 anchovy fillets
2 tsp salt (10g)
1 tbsp Ras el hanout (10g)
1 tsp sumac (5g)
½ tsp black pepper (3g)
For the freekeh:
1 cup freekeh (300g)
3 tbsp olive oil (50g)
1 onion (150g)
2 carrots (200g)
1 fennel bulb (250g)
3 celery sticks (150g)
2 handfuls dried apricots (120g)
2 garlic cloves
1 tbsp ras el hanout (10g)
1 tsp sumac (5g)
2 tsp salt (10g)
1 pinch ground black pepper (0.2g)
3 tbsp tomato puree (50g)
1/3 bottle white wine (250g)
1 litre chicken stock (1000g)
1 sprig rosemary
2 sprigs thyme
1 bay leaf
4 peppercorns
1 leek leaf or piece of muslin cloth
1 handful mint (5g)
1 handful coriander (5g)
½ lemon juice
For the goat’s milk yogurt and wild garlic tzatziki:
1 cup goat’s milk yoghurt (200g)
2 handfuls wild garlic (60g)
½ cucumber (100g)
1 pinch salt (4g)