Friends coming for dinner, loves Greek food, hates pork and coconut - need inspiration

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Says it all really. They are coming on Saturday night and just don't know what to cook.

Pork and coconut aren't hard to avoid really so you could cook anything!! First three ideas that popped into my head:

Roast leg of lamb with garlic, anchovies, oregano and rosemary, wild rice pilaf or couscous, green salad (add in feta cheese, slivered salad onions, avocado and pine nuts), flatbread, grated cucumber raita. (a bit Greek?)

Roast chicken in a tandoori marinade, spiced indian roast potatoes, coriander chutney (recipes for all three here), grated cucumber raita.

Braised chicken with lemon and leeks, cheesy mash or colcannon or champ, green salad. (Nigel Slater did a good recipe for this in the Guardian here)

For ease, meze style starter of hot pitta bread, stuffed vine leaves if you can get them, taramasalata, tsatziki, salad, olives etc, all of which come ready made, then roast lamb studded with garlic and rosemary, served with roasted aubergines, and potatoes, maybe boiled them crushed with mint or maybe Greek style roasties (they put some kind of spice on them, google it to find out what.). Baklava for pud if you can get it, Middle Eastern shops often have it but it's a pig to make, or one of those Greek orange/almond cakes that you soak in syrup after cooking, again, recipes on the web. Non eof this is madly time consuming or complicated.

Thanks very much for the suggestions, more are welcome of course. Am off now to google greek roasties, hope I don't get anything too bizarre.

Big leg or shoulder of lamb and cover in a mixture of garlic, lemon juice, oregano, cumin, salt, pepper and olive oil. Pour a bit of water in the bottom of the roasting dish, cover with foil and leave it in a low oven (140/160) for 3 or 4 hours. Serve with a massive Greek salad (tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, feta cheese, black olives and oregano, dressed in one part white wine vinegar to 3 parts good extra virgin), some tsatziki (greek yoghurt, grated cumcumber squeezed of all it's juice, lemon juice, finely minced garlic, salt and pepper) and lots of lovely pitta. The lamb will fall of the bone and melt in the mouth and the salad and tsatziki with cut through the richness.