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Great recipe for Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban). #backtoschool Yoghurt is very good for kids for their growing up as it contains calcium, this Lebanese dish is perfect to be consumed by kids. Cooked Yogurt based dishes are one of my favorite foods, and a bowl of kousa bil laban is ultimate comfort food to share with family. Stuffed zucchini simmered in a garlicky yogurt sauce, and flavored with a light dusting of dried mint, is a Lebanese classic that never goes out of style - comfort food at its best.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
- Prepare 1 kg Lebanese zucchini (choose the small or medium ones)
- Take 1/2 kg mince beef
- Prepare 1 cup medium grain rice
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Get 1/2 tsp pepper
- Prepare Yoghurt sauce:
- Make ready 3 cups Greek yoghurt
- Get 1 tsp mint flake
- Get 1 tsp oregano flake
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
- Make ready 3 cups water
Meanwhile, put the yogurt in another pan over medium heat and add the butter, garlic, corn flour, mint, and allspice. Keep stirring until the yogurt sauce boils then reduce the heat and stir in the stuffed zucchinis. Serve hot with the yogurt sauce. Koosa (or kousa, cousa, coosa) is a light green, smaller-sized Lebanese summer squash, also known as tatume here in Michigan at our Meijer grocery store.
Steps to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
- Using the corer knife, core the zucchini core to make it ready to be stuffed. Put aside.
- Preheat pan, cook mince beef without oil until well cooked, put aside.
- Wash medium grain rice in a bowl, add cooked mince beef salt, and peper. mix well.
- Stuff rice and mince beef into zucchinis, put aside.
- Prepare large cooking pot, put yoghurt and water, mix them well. Put the pot on the medium heat, keep stiring the yoghurt until it boils properly.
- Add chopped garlic, stuffed Lebanese zucchinis, and salt, lower the heat, cover the pot. Wait until the zucchinis and rice inside them cook really well.
- When they all cooked and soft, sprinkle mint flake and oregano, mix occasionally.
- It's ready to serve.
If you can't find koosa, use zucchini or yellow squash, both delicious. Just be sure to cut the neck low enough to create an opening large enough to insert corer. Transfer the yogurt mix to a medium pot, and stir the yogurt. Don't stop or it will curdle, until it's warm enough. Drain the zucchini and save the water.
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