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Greek lamb pittas

Published: May 27, 2015 at 2:26 PM

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Serves 2

A little effort

Total time: 25 mins

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If you're looking for a quick, easy, Mediterranean-inspired dinner, these Greek lamb pittas are ideal. Ready in under 30 minutes with a garlic yogurt sauce, they're perfect midweek.

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Ingredients

Nutrition

• 2 lamb leg steaks

  trimmed of all fat and skin

• oil

• 1 lemon

  juiced

• 6 tbsp natural yoghurt

• 1 clove garlic

  halved

• 1 tbsp of finely chopped dill

• 100g red cabbage

  very finely shredded

• 1 tbsp red wine vinegar

• 12 baby plum tomatoes

  halved

• ¼ small red onion

  very finely sliced

• 2-4 pittas

Nutrition: per serving

• kcal558
• fat14.6g
• saturates6.3g
• carbs56.8g
• fibre5.8g
• protein46.8g
• salt1.3g

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Method

• step 1

  Step 1

  Put the lamb in a dish and add a splash of oil, half the lemon juice and lots of seasoning. Mix the yoghurt, garlic and dill and season.

• step 2

  Step 2

  Toss the cabbage with the red wine vinegar and a pinch of sugar.Toss the tomato and onion with some salt and a little more lemon juice.

• step 3

  Step 3

  Heat a griddle to very hot. Cook the lamb for 3-4 minutes on each side until you get a really good colour. Rest for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, griddle the pittas on the same griddle, until grill-marked.

• step 4

  Step 4

  Slice the lamb very thinly. Put a pile of lamb, some pickled cabbage and the tomato and onion salad on plates. Scoop the garlic out of the yoghurt. Add warm pitas and a pot of yogurt sauce to each plate.

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