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Home Dish Lamb with rice and nuts - ouzet ghanam

Lamb with rice and nuts - ouzet ghanam

Name: How to cook Lamb with rice and nuts - ouzet ghanam - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 persons
Cuisine: Us

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Cook Lebanese

Lamb with rice and nuts - ouzet ghanam

A festive dish where rice is cooked with ground meat and topped with lamb slices, garnished with roasted nuts and served with a cinnamon-flavored sauce.

Ingredient

Food ration :

6 persons

Cooking time :

1 hour 30 minutes

1 kg

lamb, cut into large pieces

600 g

ground beef

3 cups

Italian rice

onion, peeled

6 tablespoons

vegetable oil

cardamom pods

cinnamon sticks

bay leaves

1/2 teaspoon

white pepper

1 tablespoon

cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon

salt

1/2 tablespoon

black pepper

2 tablespoons

flour

100 g

butter

beef broth cubes

150 g

pine nuts, fried

150 g

almonds, fried

150 g

cashew nuts, fried

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

In a cooking pot, heat 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a cooking pot. Fry in the meat cubes for 5 min.

* Step 2

Add 4 cups water and the peeled onion, cardamom, cinnamon sticks, bay leaves and some salt and pepper.

* Step 3

Close the cooking pot and leave on medium heat until the meat is well cooked.

* Step 4

Turn off the heat, remove the meat pieces and keep them warm until serving. Strain the meat broth and reserve the broth.

* Step 5

In a deep pan, fry the minced meat in the rest of the vegetable oil and keep on cooking until meat starts changing colors.

* Step 6

Add the rice, some cinnamon, black pepper and salt. Toss and fry for 2 min, then add 3 cups of water and the meat broth. Cover and let it simmer for 25 min or until rice is well cooked.

* Step 7

To prepare the sauce, melt the butter in a sauce pan. Add the flour gradually, while stirring. Then add in the beef broth cubes, cinnamon, black pepper and some salt to taste.

* Step 8

Add 2 cups of water and keep the sauce over low heat until it boils and thickens.

* Step 9

For serving, put the rice in a big serving dish, top with the lamb pieces cut in slices and garnish with the fried pine nuts, almonds and cashew nuts.