Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Meanwhile make the yogurt sauce and drop the partially cooked zucchini in the yogurt sauce and continue cooking A delicious Lebanese stuffed zucchini in a tangy yogurt sauce. And yes you can use kousa, I use any of them whatever is available or in sale. Transfer the yogurt mix to a medium pot, and stir the yogurt.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
- Prepare 1 kg Lebanese zucchini (choose the small or medium ones)
- Make ready 1/2 kg mince beef
- Get 1 cup medium grain rice
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp pepper
- Take Yoghurt sauce:
- Prepare 3 cups Greek yoghurt
- Make ready 1 tsp mint flake
- Make ready 1 tsp oregano flake
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
- Make ready 3 cups water
It's very fulfilling, you can eat it like soup or with a side of white plain rice. Kousa is a local veggie here in Jordan and other middle eastern countries. ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon. Cut each zucchini in half lengthways. This can be done with an apple corer, but be careful not to pierce the skins of the zucchini.
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.
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. These stuffed white zucchini with yogurt are the definition of a comfort meal! It is very simple and the combo of zucchini and yogurt is much beloved here in Lebanon as well. Heat the olive oil and fry the zucchini slices in oil till golden and a bit softened.
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