Sheikh Mahshi

Sheikh Mahshi

This recipe is Sheikh Mahshi with zucchini: cooked yogurt thickened with starch and level salt, zucchini lightly cooked in a pot or pan over the heat, and crispy seasoned meat with ghee, a cinnamon stick, and salt. It is served with vermicelli rice made with olive oil, ghee, and a pinch of white pepper, and topped with toasted pine nuts. The video states a cooking time of half an hour, and the oven temperature mentioned is the highest setting.

A stuffed Middle Eastern vegetable dish, typically made with zucchini and ground meat.

Like stuffed zucchini in a rich sauce.

Ingredients

  • half a kilo half a kilo crispy meat
  • 1 tablespoon ghee
  • 1 stick cinnamon stick
  • 1 and a half kilos yogurt
  • 3 tablespoons starch
  • 1 level tablespoon level salt
  • a pinch salt
  • a pinch pepper
  • toasted pine nuts toasted pine nuts
  • a little olive oil
  • 2 cups long-grain rice
  • vermicelli vermicelli
  • a pinch white pepper
  • water water
  • cut zucchini cut zucchini
  • a little oil
  • at the highest temperature oven
  • yogurt yogurt

Instructions

  1. In a pot over the heat, add the ghee and cinnamon stick.
  2. In a pot over the heat, add the yogurt, starch, and level salt, and stir until combined.
  3. In a pan over the heat, cook the zucchini with a little oil. The chef described this as a healthy and quick method.
  4. In a pan or pot over the heat, sauté the crispy meat with a little salt.
  5. In a pot over the heat, prepare the vermicelli rice with ghee, a little olive oil, a pinch of salt, a pinch of white pepper, and water.
  6. In an oven at the highest temperature, the chef indicated that the zucchini is placed in the oven so it takes on the flavors of both the yogurt and meat.
  7. In a pan over the heat, toast the pine nuts until suitable for serving.
  8. On a serving platter, combine the yogurt, zucchini, meat, and rice, then garnish the top with toasted pine nuts.

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