Arabic Style Rice With Lamb Meat

"I learned this delicious recipe from my mother. It is used widely in the Arab countries. It great for Holidays or any occasion. Ground Beef can be used but there is nothing like Lamb meat. This Recipe is excellent with Roast Lamb or Turkey. It is easy to cook and family members love it and always serve seconds. It tastes great with Pine (Pignoli) nuts."
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
11
Serves:
6-8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Brown lightly lamb meat in butter.
  • Add salt and spices and stir for 2 minutes.
  • Add two cups rice, stir and add the 3½ boiling Chicken Broth and mix well.
  • Bring to Boil.
  • Cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes or until rice is tender and water is absorbed.
  • Let cool for ½ hour and put in large serving dish and ready to serve.
  • You can serve with natural plain yogurt if desired.
  • (optional).
  • in the meantime rice is cooling saute ½ cup pine nuts (pignoli nuts)in 3-4 tbs. olive oil or vegetable oil until light brown.
  • Decorate rice and meat dish with the sauted pine nuts and serve.

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Reviews

  1. This came out wonderful !!!!! My husbands family is Arabic and this came out just like theirs my favorite way to eat it is with yogurt but i also stuff veggies with it .
     
  2. This recipe was so easy and so delicious. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t have any leftovers. Hahaha. But now I will be making it a lot more. Thank you.
     
  3. I love this dish. I crave it frequently. I double the spices because I like highly seasoned food. It smells heavenly while cooking, and reheats in the microwave beautifully.
     
  4. I had some leftover roasted leg of lamb from the day before and chopped it up to use for this recipe. I heated olive oil in a pan, added the chopped cooked lamb pieces and followed the recipe from there. It was wonderful! There were no leftovers! I will definitely make this again!
     
  5. I used lean turkey meat instead of lamb and threw in some peas (as does my aunt) but kept everything else the same. It's the real deal! If I make it again with turkey, I'm increasing the spices.
     
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Tweaks

  1. I used lean turkey meat instead of lamb and threw in some peas (as does my aunt) but kept everything else the same. It's the real deal! If I make it again with turkey, I'm increasing the spices.
     

RECIPE SUBMITTED BY

My name is Louie, and my nick name is Hommus, because I love Hommus,its delicious. I guess having Hommus as a nick name is better than having Baba Ghannous (Arabic Dip) as a nick name. I am of Palestinian orgin and a happily married man for 33 years. I own a Business , (retail Clothing) but I love cooking, its my hobby. I like to cook Arabic Dishes and also recipes from all around the world. I learned my Arabic recipes from my mother . who is a super great cook. In fact my favorite cookbook is the recipes I learned from my Mother. Recently I started to use the slow cooker and I noticed the difference in the flavor.
 
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