🇮🇶 Iraq
Timman Ahmar
Iraq's red rice cousin, deeper on tomato and often crowned with slow-braised lamb shank.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 90 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Redder, richer rice with noomi basra and lamb shank instead of chicken.
Ingredients
- 4 lamb shanks
- 500 gbasmati or amber rice
- 3 tbsptomato paste
- 2 noomi basra (dried lime)
- 2 tspbaharat
- 2 onions
Method
- 1
Braise the shanks with onion, baharat, and noomi until falling off the bone.
- 2
Bloom the tomato paste in the braising fat.
- 3
Cook the rice in the red broth until each grain blushes.
- 4
Serve the shanks over the red rice with pickled mango (amba) nearby.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6