Ba7-7ari - Meat With Rice (bahrain)

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 lb stewing lamb (lamb or beef but lamb is preferable, meat can be with bones or boneless)
• 2 teaspoons khaleeji mixed spice (i use half gulf spices (ibzar) & half baharat aka middle east mixed spices - the real mix to be less spicy)
• cooking oil (i use olive)
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• 3 large tomatoes (original poster prefers italian plum tomatoes i use a good canned version) or 6 small tomatoes, diced (original poster prefers italian plum tomatoes)
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• water
• 2 dried limes pierced a few times with a skewers (loomi found in some middle eastern or iranian shops)
• salt, to taste
• 1 cup basmati rice (soaked)

Recipe

• 1 rub meat with spices.
• 2 fry in cooking oil until browned on all sides. (i love to use a cast iron pan for this part).
• 3 remove to plate.
• 4 fry onions and garlic in same pan until very soft, adding tomatoes part way through so they get cooked as well.
• 5 add meat to a large pot along with tomato mixture, add in tomato paste, mix thoroughly.
• 6 add water to cover, pierced dried limes and salt to taste.
• 7 bring to the boil.
• 8 simmer covered on low until meat is tender.
• 9 remove liquid so that the amount of liquid left in the pot is what you would usually cook rice inches.
• 10 add soaked basmati rice.
• 11 simmer covered until the rice is done.