Khaleeji
Lamb Machboos
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pat the lamb dry and season with salt and pepper. Heat the ghee in a heavy pot and brown the lamb in batches until deeply colored, about 10 minutes, then lift it out.
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Cook the sliced onion in the same pot until deep golden, about 8 minutes, then stir in the garlic and baharat and cook 1 minute.
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Add the chopped tomato and tomato paste and cook 3 minutes. Return the lamb to the pot with the pierced dried limes, cardamom, cinnamon stick and bay leaves, pour in the water, and bring to a boil.
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Cover and simmer 55 minutes, until the lamb is fork tender. Lift the lamb out, keep it warm, and skim the broth.
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Rinse the rice and stir it into the broth, topped up to 4 cups. Bring back to a boil, cover, reduce the heat and cook 15 to 18 minutes until the rice is tender.
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Return the lamb to sit over the rice, scatter with bloomed saffron, toasted almonds and raisins, and serve the whole pot at the table for a weekend or Eid lunch.
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Serve it with
A Khaleeji dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Lamb Machboos, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Lamb Machboos carries tree nuts and dairy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | Yes | Balaleet (Sweet Vermicelli with Omelette) |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Kabsa |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 660 kcal
- Protein
- 32 g
- Carbs
- 60 g
- Fat
- 32 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 860 mg
- Saturated fat
- 14 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Lamb Machboos takes about 110 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish. It also turns up at Eid.
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