Kokoretsi

Kokoretsi () or kokoreç is a dish of the Balkans and Anatolia (Asia Minor), consisting of lamb or goat intestines wrapped around seasoned offal, including sweetbreads, hearts, lungs, or kidneys, and typically grilled; a variant consists of chopped innards cooked on a griddle. The intestines of suckling lambs are preferred.

==History and names== A dish identical to modern kokoretsi is first attested in the cuisine of the Byzantines. They called it (plektín), (koilióchorda), or (chordókoila); the latter two are preserved with the meaning of wrapped intestines in the Greek idioms of Corfu as (tsoilíchourda), of Plovdiv as (chordókoila), of Chios as (soilígourda), of Pontians as (chordógkoila), and in part, of Zagori and Argyrades as (chordí), of Thessaly as (chourdí), of northern Peloponnese as (kordiá) or (kórda), and of Vogatsiko as (kourdí). Other names found in medieval texts are (gardoúmion) and (gardoúmenon), from which (gardoúmpa) and (gardoumpákia) derive, as alternative names for a smaller version of kokoretsi in Greece. Τhe Medieval Greek (gardoúmion) in turn derives from Latin ; from or 'warm, hot'.