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- 12 small size zucchinis about 10 - 12 cm long.
- 1/2 kg of minced meat
- 2 cups rice
- Salt, black pepper, allspice
- 1/2 kg of ripe red tomatoes
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Kusa Mahshi
Kusa Mahshi
or Stuffed Marrows is squash or zucchini stuffed with rice and meat. It is made in Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Iraq, Jordan, and Cyprus. This dish is served hot as a main course. In Syria, this dish is flavored with mint and garlic. In Cyprus, the flowers of the marrow are also stuffed
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Adnan's Kitchen |
Mahshi Kusa - Classic
(Stuffed zucchini/courgette) |
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- Chop necks of zucchini to allow hollowing inside.
- Use the special zucchini corer to remove the inside
of the zucchinis, leaving only the skin and a thin layer of pulp.
- Wash rice and mix with the minced meat adding salt, pepper
and allspice to taste.
- Fill the zucchinis with the rice mix leaving some space to
allow expansion of rice. Use chopped necks to close openings.
- Arrange stuffed zucchinis in the cooking pot.
- Wash tomatoes and cut them into little pieces then pour them
into a wide cooking pot.
- Add some water to barely top contents of pot.
- Bring contents to a boil then lower heat to minimum
and simmer for around 30 minutes. A slight burning of the lower layer would add more flavor
to this dish.
- Remove pot from heat and jerk sideways to release contents
from bottom and sides of the pot.
- Remove zucchini carefully one by one. Serve hot.
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