Meat with Fresh Green Almonds or Green Olives
A Cretan recipe. People learned to use each product they could find at any season. It is a delicious spring food.

Ingredients
- 1kg of meat (hare, rabbit, pot roast, goat)
- 1/2 glass olive oil
- 1 chopped onion
- 1/2 kg chopped tomatoes
- 600gr fresh almonds (green squishy from the trees before they become hard)
- 1/2 glass of white wine
- salt
- pepper
- juice of 1 lemon
Method
- Wash the meat and chop it in small pieces.
- Salt the meat and saute in the olive oil for 10 min.
- Add the onion and the tomatoes.
- After some minutes of boiling add the fresh almonds (snick them a little from both sides)
- If liquids in the saucepan are not enough during the preparation, add few wine and not water.
- Few minutes before it is cooked add the lemon juice.
Replace the fresh almonds with green olives if you can not find them.
Tip: Salt each ingredient separately for best taste.

# 1 by Evelyn Moore
April 21st, 2009 at 7:52 am #
thanks for this