🇸🇾 Syria
Sayadieh
In Lattakia and Tartous the sayadieh comes spicier, the fish often fried whole, and no one leaves before the crispy rice at the pot's bottom.
🔪 Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 50 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Coastal-Syrian heat: chili and extra spice in the broth, whole fried fish on top, and the prized crust from the pot bottom.
Ingredients
- 1 kgwhole small fish, cleaned
- 500 grice
- 4 onions
- 2 tspcumin
- 1 tspAleppo pepper
- ½ tspblack pepper
- to tasteoil for frying
- 1 lemon
Method
- 1
Fry the whole fish until crisp; keep warm.
- 2
Caramelize the onions deeply and simmer into a spiced brown broth.
- 3
Cook the rice in the broth with cumin and Aleppo pepper, letting the bottom crust.
- 4
Serve the rice with fried fish on top and fight fairly over the crust.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6