About this dish
Small hollowed courgettes stuffed with rice and minced lamb, simmered in a garlicky tomato broth.
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Ingredients
🥒12 small courgettes, cored
🍚1 cup short-grain rice, rinsed
🥩300g minced lamb or beef
🍅3 tbsp tomato paste
🧄5 cloves garlic, crushed
🌿1 tbsp dried mint
🧂1 tsp seven-spice (baharat)
Method
Serves 31
Mix the rice, minced meat, seven-spice, salt and a little tomato paste.2
Fill each cored courgette three-quarters full to leave room for the rice to swell.3
Pack the courgettes into a pot.4
Dilute the remaining tomato paste in water and pour over to just cover; simmer covered for 45 minutes.5
Stir the garlic and mint into the broth for the final 5 minutes.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Kousa mahshi is one of the most common Syrian family meals; the scooped-out courgette flesh is often saved and fried with eggs.
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