Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, malfouf mehcheh - stuffed cabbage rolls. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
It's also called "Mih-sheh Malfouf" which means stuffed cabbage. The cabbage leaves need to be tender, the rice used in the stuffing needs to be medium-grain rice and the seasoning needs to permeate the dish to avoid blandness. Stuffed with a meat and rice combo or a coarse-grain bulgur and split chick-peas for a vegan version. Malfouf is traditionally a stuffed cabbage roll with a rice and meat filling.
Malfouf Mehcheh - stuffed cabbage rolls is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Malfouf Mehcheh - stuffed cabbage rolls is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have malfouf mehcheh - stuffed cabbage rolls using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Malfouf Mehcheh - stuffed cabbage rolls:
- Make ready 1 big cabbage (~2kg)
- Prepare 350 g minced beef
- Prepare 1 cup rice
- Take 4 lemons freshly squeezed
- Make ready 3 heads garlic (yes heads not cloves!)
- Take 1 teaspoon mixed spices (commonly called Lebanese 7 spices - but you can improvise)
- Get 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Take to taste Salt
And if you happen to be an expat like me, you will go back in time and. Malfouf Mehshi: Stuffed Cabbage Rolls Hoda Kobeissi. In each piece of cabbage, place in length half a tablespoon of the rice and meat mixture and roll it. Repeat the same procedure until all of the meat mixture is finished.
Steps to make Malfouf Mehcheh - stuffed cabbage rolls:
- Boil the cabbage to soften the leaves and carefully separate the leaves from the core.
- On the side, mix the minced beef with the washed & rinsed rice, spices & salt
- When the leaves are ready, meaning you can roll them gently without them breaking, take them out of the boiling pot. Add the mixture like in the photo and start rolling the cabbage slowly.
- Place the rolls side by side in a pot and in between place the peeled cloves of garlic. Keep going until all cabbage leaves and the meat are used or pot is full ;)
- Fry some garlic with olive oil and a squeeze of 🍋. When they get golden color add them to the pot
- Add the lemon juice to the pot as well and add water until all rolls are covered up. Place a "heavy" plate on the pot, bring them to boil (high temperature)
- Turn the heat down and let them simmer slowly for ~45min or more if needed (cabbage should not be crunchy by then)
- Serve hot. I serve it with plain yogurt (or greek) and a squeeze of lemon.
- Sahtein! Hope you like it!
In each piece of cabbage, place in length half a tablespoon of the rice and meat mixture and roll it. Repeat the same procedure until all of the meat mixture is finished. Place the hard side of the cabbage on the bottom of a pot. Then, line up the stuffed rolls one by the other in a compact manner. Meat-filled cabbage rolls are the most widely eaten of all the stuffed vegetables.
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