🇸🇾 Syria
Shakriyeh
The dish Syrians crave when they're far from home: white as a kind word, served the Thursday before every exam, wedding, and homecoming.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 90 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Tender lamb folded into stabilized yogurt — never boiled hard, always stirred one way — finished with ghee and dried mint over vermicelli rice.
Ingredients
- 700 glamb chunks
- 2 Lyogurt
- 1 tbspcornstarch
- 1 egg white
- 1 onion
- 5 podscardamom
- 1 tbspdried mint
- 2 tbspghee
Method
- 1
Simmer the lamb with onion and cardamom until spoon-tender; reserve a cup of broth.
- 2
Blend the yogurt with cornstarch and egg white until perfectly smooth.
- 3
Heat the yogurt, stirring one direction, until it reaches a gentle boil.
- 4
Add the lamb and a little broth; simmer 15 minutes uncovered.
- 5
Finish with ghee and dried mint; serve over vermicelli rice.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4