Hi everyone, Welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kousa Bil Laban literally translates to zucchini in yogurt! The recipe starts with zucchini which are hollowed out and are stuffed with a Stuffed zucchini simmered in a garlicky yogurt sauce, and flavored with a light dusting of dried mint, is a Lebanese classic that. Growing up kousa bil laban was what I used to consider comfort food; I loved it (anything with a yogurt sauce really).
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
- 1 kg Lebanese zucchini (choose the small or medium ones)
- 1/2 kg mince beef
- 1 cup medium grain rice
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- Yoghurt sauce:
- 3 cups Greek yoghurt
- 1 tsp mint flake
- 1 tsp oregano flake
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
- 3 cups water
This can be done with an apple corer, but be careful not to pierce the skins of the zucchini. Add crushed garlic with dried mint to mixture. The best zucchini to use for this recipe is the small, slightly bulbous, pale green variety often sold as Lebanese zucchini. Hollow out the zucchini using a manakra, which is a tool like a long apple corer designed To adapt this kousa mahshi recipe for vegetarians, use chickpeas instead of minced beef.
Steps to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
- Using the corer knife, core the zucchini core to make it ready to be stuffed. Put aside.
- Preheat pan, cook mince beef without oil until well cooked, put aside.
- Wash medium grain rice in a bowl, add cooked mince beef salt, and peper. mix well.
- Stuff rice and mince beef into zucchinis, put aside.
- Prepare large cooking pot, put yoghurt and water, mix them well. Put the pot on the medium heat, keep stiring the yoghurt until it boils properly.
- Add chopped garlic, stuffed Lebanese zucchinis, and salt, lower the heat, cover the pot. Wait until the zucchinis and rice inside them cook really well.
- When they all cooked and soft, sprinkle mint flake and oregano, mix occasionally.
- It's ready to serve.
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