Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban) is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban) is something that I have loved my entire life.
Meanwhile make the yogurt sauce and drop the partially cooked zucchini in the yogurt sauce and continue cooking A delicious Lebanese stuffed zucchini in a tangy yogurt sauce. And yes you can use kousa, I use any of them whatever is available or in sale. Transfer the yogurt mix to a medium pot, and stir the yogurt.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
- Make ready 1 kg Lebanese zucchini (choose the small or medium ones)
- Take 1/2 kg mince beef
- Make ready 1 cup medium grain rice
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp pepper
- Make ready Yoghurt sauce:
- Take 3 cups Greek yoghurt
- Take 1 tsp mint flake
- Make ready 1 tsp oregano flake
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
- Get 3 cups water
It's very fulfilling, you can eat it like soup or with a side of white plain rice. Kousa is a local veggie here in Jordan and other middle eastern countries. ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon. Cut each zucchini in half lengthways. This can be done with an apple corer, but be careful not to pierce the skins of the zucchini.
Steps to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
- Using the corer knife, core the zucchini core to make it ready to be stuffed. Put aside.
- Preheat pan, cook mince beef without oil until well cooked, put aside.
- Wash medium grain rice in a bowl, add cooked mince beef salt, and peper. mix well.
- Stuff rice and mince beef into zucchinis, put aside.
- Prepare large cooking pot, put yoghurt and water, mix them well. Put the pot on the medium heat, keep stiring the yoghurt until it boils properly.
- Add chopped garlic, stuffed Lebanese zucchinis, and salt, lower the heat, cover the pot. Wait until the zucchinis and rice inside them cook really well.
- When they all cooked and soft, sprinkle mint flake and oregano, mix occasionally.
- It's ready to serve.
The best zucchini to use for this recipe is the small, slightly bulbous, pale green variety often sold as Lebanese zucchini. Hollow out the zucchini using a manakra, which is a tool like a long apple corer designed To adapt this kousa mahshi recipe for vegetarians, use chickpeas instead of minced beef. These stuffed white zucchini with yogurt are the definition of a comfort meal! It is very simple and the combo of zucchini and yogurt is much beloved here in Lebanon as well. Heat the olive oil and fry the zucchini slices in oil till golden and a bit softened.
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