Tavë Kosi 烤羊肉乳酪焗飯
（國家：ALBANIA 阿爾巴尼亞）

According to the legends transmitted by the elders of Kanina, it is said that on the eve of the days of the declaration of independence, when Ismail Qemali arrived in Vlora in 1912, he asked them to cook the real casserole of the yoghurt of Elbasan (Tavë Kosi). Since that day, many Albanian families, especially in the surrounding areas, cook Elbasan Casserole as part of the traditional dishes for the Independence Day celebration.

SDB IN ALBANIA
Salesians are present in the capital city Tirana, in Shkodër (Shkodra) and in Lushnjë. First presence was in Uroševac in 1940 in the area annexed to Yugoslavia. The Salesian activity in today’s Albania started with the summer experience of 1991 of some young people from the IME Province and founding of the first community in 1991.

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Tavë Kosi or Tave e Kosit is a most popular Albanese dish based on lamb or chicken meat baked in one pan in the oven with fresh yogurt sauce and rice.

INGREDIENTS | 4 servings

• 350 g of fresh lamb (or chicken)
• 75g of butter
•  2 fresh eggs
• 600 ml of fresh yogurt
• 1.5 tbsp flour
• rice
• salt
• pepper

PREPARATION

1. First we prepare the meat. Rinse it well with plenty of water and place it cut into pieces in the pan. Next, you to brush all the pieces of meat with a butter brush and add a little salt and a glass of water.
2. Put them in the oven to bake and leave them until they get the reddish color of baking. Once it is baked, remove it from the oven and prepare the sauce.
3. Now, you prepare the Yogurt Sauce. Take care to remove the water left in the pan of roasted meat as it will be used to prepare yogurt. Put a pot on the fire and melt the butter. Add the flour and mix it with the butter. Once the flour is slightly browned, slowly add the meat broth (to which we add half a glass of extra water). Stir with a wooden spoon and non-stop in order to avoid the formation of granules. Once the mixture becomes uniform, let it boil a little and when the sauce has thickened, remove it from the heat and let it cool. 
4. Then, in a bowl toss the eggs and beat them hard until smooth. Add salt, a little butter, pepper and yogurt and mix it all together. Then add the flour sauce and continue to mix until the mixture is unison.
5. In the pan where we have the roasted meat, we throw the rice; we distribute it all over the pan in a regular way. Mix the meat on both sides with the rice and spread the prepared yoghurt sauce all over the pan. Top with a little butter cut into small pieces. Meanwhile, make sure that the oven is hot at 200 degrees and put the pan to bake around 30 minutes until the surface turns reddish.

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