Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mechwi jader- upside down rice and vegetable cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mechwi Jader- Upside down rice and vegetable cake. Mehshi is a famous dish served in Syria, it is essentially Kousa or Eggplants stuffed with ground beef, rice and nuts. The northern city of Aleppo is known in the Arabic world as "Halab, the mother of Mehshis and Kebbehs.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mechwi jader- upside down rice and vegetable cake using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mechwi Jader- Upside down rice and vegetable cake:
- Get 1 kg meat, cut into big cubes
- Make ready 3 cups rice
- Make ready 2 potatoes, cut into big squares
- Prepare 2 onions, cut into squares
- Make ready 1 bell pepper, cut into squares
- Make ready 1 green hot peppers
- Prepare 3 black loumi
- Make ready 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare Spices for the meat
- Get 2 cinnamon sticks
- Prepare 4 cardamom pods
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 1 onion
- Prepare salt to taste
- Prepare Spices for rice cooking:
- Make ready 2 cardamom pods
- Make ready 2 black pepper grain
- Take 2 clove seeds
- Make ready 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Then add chopped mint and coriander leaves. This is a dish you could make vegetarian or omnivore but I chose to make a chicken version of this dish. It's a Palestinian dish called makloubeh (or maklouba, maklube or maqluba) with fragrantly spiced chicken, soft cauliflower, creamy eggplant and aromatic rice all stacked in layers. A Palestinian tradition, maqluba means "upside down" in Arabic and is a pot of stewed meat, rice and fried vegetables, cooked and flipped onto a serving dish to form an impressive tower In Maha Sarsour's version, the rice is richly spiced with cinnamon, allspice and more, and the chicken simmers to.
Instructions to make Mechwi Jader- Upside down rice and vegetable cake:
- Place the chicken or meat in a medium saucepan and add water to cover.
- Put the saucepan over heat. When the water boils, remove the fatty liquid that forms on the top then add the spices for cooking the meat or chicken and salt and reduce the heat.
- Cover the saucepan and keep on heat until the chicken or meat is done then remove and drain the chicken or meat and keep their broth.
- Put the oil in a saucepan, add onions and potatoes and fry well until the onions turn lightly brown.
- Add in the meat or chicken, bell pepper, green hot pepper, “loumi”, and tomatoes. Stir the ingredients for few minutes then add 1 cup of broth to the saucepan and leave for 10 minutes over low heat.
- Meanwhile, boil the rice in a saucepan containing water and the spices for rice cooking. Leave it on heat until the rice is half cooked then remove the rice and drain it.
- Add the rice over the chicken or meat mixture, then add in another cup of broth and close the saucepan well.
- Leave the saucepan over low heat for half an hour then remove from heat and leave it in a warm place until serving.
- Flip the saucepan over into a serving dish and serve hot.
Cooked upside down so that the rice steams on top of the layers of chicken and vegetables, you simply flip it upside down when ready so that the chicken sits on top and it So tell me Dear Reader, if you didn't have to eat, would you not eat? Or is eating a pleasure for you? Upside Down (translation of its Arabic name, Maqloobeh) is made in a variety of ways. It can be made with either chicken or lamb but my husband's family only makes it with chicken. Note: This recipe requires a large serving tray/plate, preferably round.
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