🇸🇾 Syria
Sheikh el-Mahshi
Damascus crowns the mahshi family with a meat-only filling cooked in yogurt — hence the “sheikh”.
🔪 Prep: 40 min🔥 Cook: 50 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
No rice — pure spiced meat and pine nuts, simmered in cooked yogurt sauce.
Ingredients
- 12 small zucchini
- 500 gground lamb
- 50 gpine nuts
- 1½ Lyogurt
- 1 egg white (to stabilize)
- 1 tbspcornstarch
- 1 tspseven-spice
Method
- 1
Core the zucchini and stuff with browned meat, spices, and pine nuts.
- 2
Blend yogurt with egg white and cornstarch; heat, stirring one way, until it boils smooth.
- 3
Lower the stuffed kousa into the yogurt and simmer 40 minutes.
- 4
Serve with rice bil-shaghrieh and dried mint on top.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6