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.
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.
Cooking Instructions
- 1
In a cooking pot, heat 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a cooking pot. Fry in the meat cubes for 5 min.
- 2
Add 4 cups water and the peeled onion, cardamom, cinnamon sticks, bay leaves and some salt and pepper.
- 3
Close the cooking pot and leave on medium heat until the meat is well cooked.
- 4
Turn off the heat, remove the meat pieces and keep them warm until serving. Strain the meat broth and reserve the broth.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 8
Add 2 cups of water and keep the sauce over low heat until it boils and thickens.
- 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.
- 10
Pour the sauce in a deep bowl and serve it beside the lamb and rice.
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