Good morning friends! I hope you doing well!
We still in Ikaria Island and the third  episode of series Cooking In Nature.
In today's video we doing an ancient Greek BBQ.
Cooking on a rock!
The special point of this bbq it's not only the stone but the base
as you can see is river sand
we will bury under the river sand some potatoes and onions
we will cover them with sand and on top of that the fire
to heat up the stone to be able to cook the pork steaks which is the today's recipe.
Let's begin with our potatoes
after we place our potatoes into the river sand we will cover them
same with the onions
Here is our classic picnic basket as usual
Don't peel the onions so the onion skin can protect them from overcooking
just be careful because the fire can easily burn them
so the only solution is to check them all the time to check the progress of the cooking
add plenty river sand on top to protect from over burning
Like Greek Coffee on Ember
Let's start the BBQ now
As you saw before ,after covering potatoes and onions with river sand
now it's time to start the BBQ with woods we found in the forest and dry leaves
Our BBQ now is ready to place the rock
this is the rock as you can see and we gonna leave it to burn for an hour to take temperature
when the rock start getting the right temperature we gonna add the pork steaks.
Let's place the rock.
After getting ready the BBQ.
Now we marinate the pork steaks
juicy pork steaks from local producer
they informed me that this pork was eating only apples and kiwi
that's why I'm looking forward to taste this meat
we gonna prepare our marinade in this traditional mortar
In nature with traditional cooking style.
Let's begin with the marinade and the texture of marinade will be thick like paste
to apply to our pork steaks.
When rock is ready we grill
but first let's make the thick marinade.
First adding salt
plenty salt
Pepper granules
Fresh Oregano
Now we crush the herbs with pestle
to homogenize our ingredients to make it thick like paste
add extra virgin olive oil and marinade is ready to cover the pork steaks.
In my recipes am adding more than usual olive oil like my grandmother
Now am ready to apply the marinade to pork steaks
applying the marinade
cover steaks with marinade
spread the marinade well to all over the steaks
Excellent job.
After marinating the pork steaks now we are ready to cook on the rock.
Rock is in the right temperature to start our BBQ
we made a handmade Grill tong to help us in the BBQ
The pork steaks are getting ready.
Getting a nice colour
This one is almost ready with a nice golden brown colour.
The pork steaks are ready and smells delicious
I have to say am really surprised because after so many years in kitchens as a chef
Never seen something like that before
had doubts about the color the steaks can get but i was wrong
They look juicy with a nice golden brown color.
Am looking forward to taste them.
Now it's time to pick them up from the rock and add them to our wooden board for serving
Also we have to uncover the potatoes and onions from the river sand and we good to go.
With our handmade Grill tong.
Look at this color!!!
Let's uncover the potatoes
Look at this potato!
with a nice color and very soft ready to eat!
The onion smells amazing and cooked well!
Before start eating ,we cut the potatoes
add on the stone to give an extra flavor
from the fat of the steaks.
After we finally finishing with cooking
I would like to ask you and give you a piece of advice
be very careful when you cooking in nature
never close to dry leaves and into the woods.
Always when you cooking in nature very carefully turn off the coals
because it's a shame to burn the beautiful forests that we have in Greece
Let's try the food!
Literally am drooling!!!!
Optionally lemon juice but it's not necessary just for the acidity.
Spring onions to go with the meat ,potatoes
and the grilled onions!
Enough talking ,now it's time to taste the meat!
So juicy!!!!!!!!
Great flavor!
The Stone did a great job with the meat! Pork steaks are tender
as i told you before i had my doubts about cooking in the stone.
I wish you were here to try with me this delicious meat because i can't describe how tasty this is!
Thank you so much my friends for being here today!
I hope you doing well!
See you until next recipe in nature!
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Love and take a good care of the nature! Do not leave charcoal on fire because there is a risk of fire!
