🇸🇾 Syria
Ouzi Parcels
Damascus banquet food: the parcels arrive glistening, and cracking the pastry open to the steaming rice is half the pleasure.
🔪 Prep: 45 min🔥 Cook: 45 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Individual phyllo domes filled with hashweh rice, lamb, peas, carrots, and fried nuts, brushed with ghee and baked bronze.
Ingredients
- 500 grice, cooked with spices
- 400 gground lamb
- 150 gpeas and diced carrots
- 1 packphyllo dough
- 80 gfried pine nuts and almonds
- 1½ tspseven-spice
- ½ tspcardamom
- 100 gghee, melted
- to tastelaban or yogurt-cucumber salad to serve
Method
- 1
Brown the lamb with seven-spice and cardamom; stir in peas and carrots.
- 2
Fold the meat and fried nuts through the spiced rice.
- 3
Line a bowl with ghee-brushed phyllo, pack with rice, and fold into a sealed parcel.
- 4
Flip the parcels seam-down onto a tray and brush again with ghee.
- 5
Bake at 190°C until deep gold; serve hot with laban.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6