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Main dishes · Yemen

Zurbian

Yemeni rice with lamb and potato, coloured with saffron and baked sealed.

◷ 150 minutes♧ 6 servingsSave as cookbook PDF ↓
Zurbian

Ingredients

For 6 servings · tick what is ready

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LET’S COOK

How to make it

01

Marinate the lamb in yoghurt with the hawaij and salt for two hours.

02

Rinse the rice until the water runs clear and soak it thirty minutes.

03

Fry the onion in ghee to a deep gold and set half of it aside.

04

Brown the meat with the remaining onion, add the tomatoes and cardamom and stew an hour.

05

Fry the potato rounds to a golden crust in a separate pan.

06

Boil the rice in salted water for seven minutes, to half done, and drain it.

07

Layer the meat, rice, potato and raisins, streak the saffron over and bake it covered for thirty minutes.

About this recipe

By UniTools · Source: UniTools — theunitools.com. Recipe content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: AninnymouseEditor · CC BY-SA 4.0