Cooking a DELICIOUS Levant meat and rice recipe! So AMAZING!
Ingredients and step by step directions
Preparing the meat:
Use lamb or goat meat with bones (One kilogram)
Season the meat with the following spice mix:
One tsp each of salt, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, paprika, and half of a tsp each of black pepper and turmeric
Fry the meat in a little bit of vegetable oil
Add bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, and cloves
Add chopped onions (150 grams) and Garlic (20 grams)
Cover the meat with hot water
Cook over medium heat for one hour
Then, take out the meat from the pot
Strain the broth
Set the broth aside and use it for the rice
Preparing the rice
In a cooking pot add:
Vegetable oil
Fry one cup of carrots and take it out of the pot once fried
In the same pot, fry the vermicelli (100 grams)
Then, add two cups of washed and soaked basmati rice
One tsp each of cumin, coriander, paprika, and black pepper, and half a tsp cinnamon, cardamom, turmeric
One tsp of salt
Add four cups ofthe meat broth
Use one and half cups of water for each cup of rice
Cook over high heat until the amount of water decreases
Add one cup of canned sweet peas
Add the fried carrots
Cook over low heat for 25 minutes
Mix everything up
Turn off the heat and let the rice cool down for a little bit
Preparing the dough
Add the following ingredients into a kneading bowl:
Two cups of all purpose of flour
Half a tsp of baking powder
Half a tsp of salt
Two thirds of a cup of water
Two tbsps of vegetable oil
Knead the dough until you get a consistent texture
Cover the dough and let it rest for a half an hour
Final steps:
Brush an oven safe pot with butter
Decorate with almonds
Put it in the refrigerator for 5 minutes so that the almonds stick to the butter
Flatten the dough
Lay the dough in the pot
Add half of the rice batch
Then, add the meat
Add the rest of the rice
Cover the rice with the dough
Brush with ghee or butter
Put it in a preheated oven
Bake for 25 minutes at an oven temperature of 400°f, 200°c.
Flip it onto a serving tray
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