🇱🇧 Lebanon
Shushbarak
Lebanese kitchens make shushbarak a little richer — cilantro in the garlic, rice always underneath, and a few dumplings fried for the impatient.
🔪 Prep: 55 min🔥 Cook: 30 min📈 Difficulty: Takes love
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Garlic-cilantro tasha instead of dried mint alone, and a handful of dumplings fried crisp to scatter on top.
Ingredients
- 400 gflour
- 400 gground beef
- 1 onion
- 30 gpine nuts
- 2 Lyogurt
- 1 tbspcornstarch
- 5 clovesgarlic
- ½ bunchfresh cilantro
Method
- 1
Make the dough and the pine-nut meat filling; fold small dumplings.
- 2
Fry a small handful of dumplings until golden; set aside.
- 3
Boil the stabilized yogurt gently, then simmer the rest of the dumplings in it.
- 4
Sizzle garlic and cilantro in ghee and stir through.
- 5
Serve over vermicelli rice, topped with the fried dumplings.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6