🇯🇴 Jordan cuisine · #1
Mansaf
Time150 min
Serves8
Ingredients11
Jordan's national dish: lamb cooked in jameed (dried yoghurt) sauce, served over rice and shrak bread and topped with almonds and pine nuts.
Ingredients
Method
- Soak the broken jameed in warm water overnight, then whisk until liquid.
- Boil the lamb with cardamom and bay, skimming, then drain.
- Heat the jameed over medium heat, stirring constantly, until boiling; add the lamb and cook for 45 minutes.
- Cook the rice with ghee, turmeric and water.
- Line a large tray with shrak, soak it with jameed, add rice and lamb, scatter nuts, and serve extra jameed on the side.