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Bamia bel-lahma

🇪🇬 Egypt

Bamia bel-lahma

Egyptian bamia is garlicky and thick, cooked in a fakhara clay pot when luck allows.

🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 75 min📈 Difficulty: Easy

Cooking for

4 people

What makes it special

Heavier garlic-coriander tasha and a thicker sauce, often finished in a clay pot in the oven.

Ingredients

  • 500 gokra
  • 500 glamb or beef cubes
  • 600 mltomato passata
  • 6 clovesgarlic
  • 1 tbspground coriander
  • 2 tbspghee

Method

  1. 1

    Brown the meat and simmer until tender.

  2. 2

    Sauté the okra briefly to seal it.

  3. 3

    Combine meat, okra, and passata; simmer 25 minutes.

  4. 4

    Fry garlic and coriander in ghee and stir through at the end.

  5. 5

    Serve bubbling with white rice.

🍽 On your table

How this dish looks served for 4

On your table

How Bamia is made elsewhere