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Riz be bazalyah

Rice with green peas cooked Salma's way. A solo meal.
Course Main Course
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 1 Loner Diner

Ingredients

  • 10 g Ghee
  • 150 g Green peas
  • 1 tsp Sugar
  • 225 g Rice
  • 550 g Water
  • 1 tsp Salt

For the Meat

  • 5 g Ghee
  • 150 g Minced beef
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1/2 tsp Salma Spice

Serve with

  • Almonds
  • Yogurt

Instructions

  • Start by soaking the rice in water and taking the peas out of the freezer.
  •  In a medium-sized pot melt, the ghee add in the peas and the sugar and saute for around 5 minutes
  • Boil the water and add it on top, boil the peas in the water for another 5 minutes.
  • Strain the rice and add it on top of the peas and water. Add in the salt and cover.
  • Keep the pot on medium to high heat while the water boils for another 5 minutes then transfer to low heat.
  • Keep it for 10 minutes, by now the rice should have made some halls, mix the rice and taste for salt if need to be adjusted.
  • Lower the heat to the minimum or of you are suing gas burner use your simmering ring right now. Leave the rice for the last 5 minutes.

For the meat

  • In a frying pan on high heat melt the ghee.
  • Season the meat with salt and Salma spice and mix it.
  • Add the meat in the pan and cook for a few minutes till it is fully cooked. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed.