Maqluba
Upside-down rice with fried vegetables and meat, flipped at the table.
Ingredients
- 700 g Lamb
- 3 cups Basmati rice
- 2 Eggplant
- 1 Cauliflower
- 2 Potatoes
- 1 Onion
- 2 tbsp Baharat spice mix
- 1 tsp Turmeric
- 1 Cinnamon stick
- 2 cups Frying oil
- 2 tsp Salt
- 5 cups Water
Method
- Cook the meat — Simmer the lamb with onion, cinnamon and salt for 1 hour, keeping the broth.
- Fry the vegetables — Fry the sliced eggplant, cauliflower and potato separately until golden, then drain.
- Layer the pot — Arrange the fried vegetables neatly across the base of a heavy pot, then the meat, then the soaked rice with baharat.
- Add broth — Pour the hot strained broth over until it covers the rice by a finger.
- Cook — Bring to a boil, then cover and cook on the lowest heat for 30 minutes.
- Rest — Leave off the heat, covered, for 15 minutes — flipping too early makes it collapse.
- Maqluba is ready — Place a platter over the pot and invert in one confident movement.