made tomato purée or a tablespoon
of concentrated tomato paste
diluted with stock or water. Cover
the pan and cook gently for 1½
hours.
Put the sauce through a fine
sieve, squeeze in the juice of a
lemon and cook another 30
minutes. Use stewing partridges for
this dish.
PARTRIDGES COOKED KLEPHTI FASHION
Klephtis (from the word meaning
‘to steal’) was the name given to
the original Greek brigands, who
had their headquarters in the
mountains of Thessaly and harried