Maqloobeh / Maqluba

I really can't understand how some people eat same food over and over for years. I  always crave something new; I simply need to try everything that I hear about or see on the internet. Maqluba is one of those - Palestinian popular dish; layers of meat, vegetables and rice, all in one pot.

Ingredients:

1/3 cup oil

1 large onion, diced

1/2 kg lamb, diced

4 cups water

salt to taste

1/2 tsp black pepper

1 1/2 tsp allspice (pimento)

2 bay leaves

1(+) tsp cinnamon

2-3 cardamom pods, crushed

2-3 egg plants, sliced

3 tomatoes, sliced

1 1/2 cups rice

(parsley / coriander leaves, pine nuts and chilli flakes for garnish - optional)

Method:

Heat half oil, saute onions. Add meat and spice; mix and cook until meat changes colour. Pour water, cover and cook for 1 hour. In another pan heat remaining oil and fry eggplant slices on both sides. 

When meat cooked, assemble the dish; place 1-2 tbs rice on bottom of a pan, place meat, eggplant slices, tomato slices and then rice over it. Pour water (that you cooked meat in), cover and bring to boil. Reduce heat and cook for 30 minutes, or until all water absorbed by rice. Let it stand for another 10-15 minutes, then carefully turn upside-down on a plate. Garnish with chosen ingredients and enjoy.

Makluba (Maqluba)

Ne mogu razumjeti neke osobe koje godinama mogu jesti istu hranu. Ja uvijek ceznem da isprobam nesto novo; cesto vidim neki program ili naletim na neki zanimljiv recept na internetu i onda to moram isprobati. Takav slucaj je bio sa ovim Palestinskim jelom - Maqluba je tamo jako popularna; slojevi mesa, povrca i rize, sve u istoj posudi.

Potrebno:

1/3 solje ulja

1 veci crveni luk, sjeckan

1/2 kg jagnjetine, sjecene na kocke

4 solje vode

so prema ukusu

1/2 k crnog bibera

1 1/2 k 'allspice' (pimento)

2 lovorova lista

1 k cimeta, vise ako volite

2-3 kardamoma, zrvo istucano

2-3 patlidzana, isjecena

3 paradajza, isjecena

1 1/2 solja rize

(persunovo ili lisce korijandera, pinjole i ljuspice papricice za ukrasavanje - opciono)

Nacin:

Zagrijte polovinu ulja i proprzite luk. Dodajte meso i zacine i dinstajte dok meso ne promijeni boju. Zalijte sa vodom, pokrijte i kuhajte oko 1 sat. Zagrijte preostalo ulje i proprzite reznjeve patlidzana na obje strane. Kad je meso kuhano, poslazite maklubu. Najprije stavite 1-2 K rize na dno serpe / lonca, zatim meso, reznjeve patlidzana, paradajz zatim i rizu. Zalijte sa vodom u kojoj ste kuhali meso, poklopite i na blagoj vatri kuhajte oko 30 minuta ili dok riza ne popije svu vodu. Ostavite jos 10-15 minta po strani, zatim pazljivo prevrnite na posudu u kojoj cete sluziti. Ukrasite sa odabranim sastojcima i uzivajte.