Help locating old mumsnet Kleftiko recipe!

[MrsHerculePoirot]

There used to be a recipe on mumsnet for Lamb Kleftiko (old link below) that is no more. It is one of our favourite slow cooker recipes and I’m hoping someone has a copy somewhere!

It was for leg or shoulder of lamb and can remember onions, tin of tomato purée, onions, garlic and bay leaves as some of the ingredients… it required no pre doing anything, just shove in slow cooker. And if you wanted you could crumble feta on the end and grill it…

I know there are other recipes out there but I really want to find this specific one!

old link: https://www.mumsnet.com/food/recipe/2056-Kleftiko

Is it this one?

Serves 4 adults

1 boneless half-shoulder of lamb (about 800g)
500ml hot chicken stock
400g tin of chopped tomatoes
140g tin of tomato purée
1 large onion, chopped
4 garlic cloves, each cracked with the flat side of a knife
5 bay leaves
1 tbsp finely chopped rosemary leaves
1 tbsp dried oregano
Salt and pepper
Handful of parsley leaves, roughly chopped
200g feta cheese

1. Place the meat in the slow cooker and make sure it doesn't fill the cooker by more than two-thirds. Add all the other ingredients except the parsley and feta cheese.

1. Put the lid on the slow cooker and set it to low. Let the casserole cook for seven to eight hours.

1. After the casserole has cooked, check to see how oily it is. Cheap cuts of lamb can be quite fatty so, if there is a layer of oil on the top, use a spoon to scoop it away. To avoid blocked drains, place the oil in a cup or bowl and wait for it to cool and solidify before spooning it out and throwing it into the bin.

1. To serve, break up the lamb - it should be so tender you can just use a spoon - and put into bowls or plates. Strain the gravy, then spoon it over the meat. Then sprinkle with the parsley, crumble the feta on top and serve with a salad, crusty bread or new potatoes.

Or this one?
andyoldlabour · 01/04/2021 16:13

Lemon juice, olive oil, crushed garlic, grated onion, oregano, salt, black pepper.
1lemon
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons dried oregano
half teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
Mix together in a bowl, place lamb in a container and rub this all over, cover and marinate for 24 hours.
Preheat oven for 15 minutes at 180C
Place a roasting tin in the oven to heat.
Finely slice one medium onion.
put the onions in the bottom of the tin, place the lamb on top. Cover with tin foil and cook for ninety minutes. Then remove lamb from oven, take off tin foil and cook for another twenty minutes, checking that it doesn't get too brown.
When cooked, remove from oven, pace on a board, cover with the tin foil to rest for twenty minutes. The lamb should be very tender and moist.

I googled Mumsnet Kleftiko and got several options

@Aubasaurus This is definitely very close - I don’t think it had parsley but reckon the rest of it sounds about right! I will try this one as quantities sound similar from memory!!!

@JenniferJupiterVenusandMars Thanks but definitely not this one - it was really easy and simple and quick!

I did try searching on Google and mumsnet first and even contacted mumsnet via email but they don’t have it any more…..

Oh bum…….

I do this one
https://www.delish.com/uk/cooking/recipes/a39568381/lamb-kleftiko/

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131201100518/www.mumsnet.com/food/recipe/2056-Kleftiko" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kleftiko on Way back archive

You need to scroll down the page and click the way back link below this (don't know why that formatting is like that!)

I have a very elderly copy of the mumsnet cookbook, hopefully you can see the page reasonably well. It’s one of the few pages without a dubious sticky patch!

I was going to suggest the wayback machine - it's so funny looking at old MN like that :D

@Nopenopenopenopenopenope you absolute LEGEND!

I read about the way back machine but I didn’t know how to use it! Is it easy?

I have taken a photo and will now have it forever!

I'm not answering your question here at all, but what a blast from the past! I have only just rejoined Mumsnet but DD is 18 and I spent 2004-2014 as a regular poster and I remember this kleftico. I'm am now going to make it this weekend!

Yes really easy to use!

You just go here and then put in the website address like www.mumsnet.com, or you can use a keyword like mumsnet. It will show you all the different sites that it's archived using that keyword/address, you click on "XYZ captures" and it takes you to a page like a calendar showing all the dates it has archives for. You then just pick a date and wait (usually ages) for the site to load and then bask in all the nostalgic glory XD

They don't usually have every page cached like individual forum threads etc, not all images will load, and any old sites that used flash, which was popular in the early 00s, won't display properly in a modern browser, but it's great for nosing at old home pages, or checking for stealth edits when you are sure that a website used to say something different to what it says now.

Try out random sites like bbc news or google - they look so different.

https://web.archive.org/

Oooh thanks going to try that later!

@Floopani definitely a blast from the past!

Ah! memories of MN, I used to make this, DDs long ex boyfriend announced one night, 'you should go on Come Dine With Me, they are all crap on there' Spent the next few mins assuring me that I would win because my cooking was great.