Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. Add crushed garlic with dried mint to mixture.
Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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):
- Take 1 kg Lebanese zucchini (choose the small or medium ones)
- Take 1/2 kg mince beef
- Prepare 1 cup medium grain rice
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp pepper
- Get Yoghurt sauce:
- Prepare 3 cups Greek yoghurt
- Prepare 1 tsp mint flake
- Take 1 tsp oregano flake
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Get 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
- Take 3 cups water
Heat the olive oil and fry the zucchini slices in oil till golden and a bit softened. 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. This cool and creamy Lebanese laban cucumber yogurt sauce is perfect with grilled meats, salmon or as a side salad with a variety of Lebanese specialties such as grape leaves, tabbouleh or m'juddarah.
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.
Cucumber laban holds a special place in my heart. 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. When I think back to my childhood food is always in the picture. Kousa is the Lebanese version of stuffed zucchini.
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