Mansaf
Lamb in tangy yogurt sauce over rice
Think of it as: Like a lamb biryani drenched in warm, salty yogurt sauce
Right hand only. Roll the rice into a ball.
What does it taste like?
Tangy, salty yogurt sauce with rich, tender lamb.
SweetSpicySourSaltyFunkSmellTextureTender meat and saucy rice
What is it?
Lamb cooked in a sauce of jameed, a fermented dried yogurt, piled over flatbread and rice. Jordan's national dish is served on huge platters at weddings and eaten by hand.Source: Wikipedia
How locals eat it
Guests stand around the platter and roll rice and meat into balls with their right hand.
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Ingredients
- 1 kg bone-in lamb
- 1 ball jameed (or 1 kg plain yogurt)
- 450 g rice
- 2 thin flatbreads (shrak)
- 3 tbsp ghee
- 50 g almonds and pine nuts
- 1 onion
- Cardamom and bay leaves
Can't find it? Plain yogurt with extra salt can replace jameed.
How to make it (one way)
- Soak and dissolve the jameed into a sauce.
- Boil the lamb and skim off the foam.
- Move the meat into the jameed sauce and simmer.
- Cook the rice with ghee, then layer bread, rice and meat on a platter.
- Scatter nuts, pour over sauce and eat by hand.
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