🇪🇬 Egypt cuisine · #5

Mahshi (Stuffed Vegetables)

Name: Mahshi (Stuffed Vegetables)
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Egypt
Ingredients: 1 kg mixed vegetables (courgettes, aubergines, peppers); 2 cups Egyptian rice; 2 tomatoes, grated; 1 onion, grated; chopped parsley, dill and mint; 2 tbsp tomato paste; 3 tbsp ghee or oil; 3 cups stock; salt and spices

Time90 min

Serves6

Ingredients9

Courgettes, aubergines, peppers and vine leaves stuffed with rice seasoned with tomato and herbs, then simmered in broth.

Method

Core the vegetables carefully.
Mix the rice with onion, tomato, herbs, paste, ghee, salt and spices.
Stuff each vegetable only three-quarters full, as the rice swells.
Pack them tightly in a pot.
Pour in stock to cover and weigh down with an upturned plate.
Cook 10 minutes on high, then 40 minutes on low.

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