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Meat & vegetables
Peas with meat & tomatos
2 kg washed fresh peas, 500 g. meat cut into medium size cubes, 3 carrots (diced or thinly sliced), 1 ½ kg fresh tomatoes, 4 garlic gloves, salt, pepper, cinnamon, 60 ml of vegetable oil, 375 ml water, 1 small bunch fresh coriander (finely chopped).
Serves 5.
Preparation: 15 min.
Cooking:
40 min.
Peel and cut the tomato and process in a blender. Boil the meat in 450 ml water in the pressure cooker without the lid on, remove the scum. Close the pressure cooker. As soon as the valve starts to whistle, reduce the heat and leave to cook for 20 minutes. Remove the meat and keep warm, clean the pressure cooker, then add the carrots, peas, oil and put it on a medium heat and cook for 5 minutes without the lid on. Add the tomato, garlic, coriander, and the 375 ml water, then close the pressure cooker. As soon as the valve starts to whistle, reduce the heat and leave to cook for 15 minutes. Serve with hot rice.
Home made desserts
Sweet Rice
1 cup of rice, 5 glasses water, 2 cups of sugar, 600 gm white cheese, 5 pieces of arabic musk, ½ glass of rose water.
Serves 7.
Preparation: 20 min.
Cooking:
90 min.
If the cheese is salty, cut it in to thin slices and soak in water, change the water every 15 minutes unto the cheese becomes sweet, drain and keep aside. Wash the rice several times. Pour water into the pressure cooker then add the rice and stir. Close the pressure cooker. As soon as the valve starts to whistle, reduce the heat and leave to cook for 45 minutes. Put the rice in a blender to make it smooth. Then put the rice in the pressure cooker on medium heat, stir with a wooden ladle, add the sugar and stir. If the rice is too hard add ½ glass (60 ml) of water. Close the pressure cooker. As soon as the valve starts to whistle, reduce the heat and leave to cook for 60 minutes. Add the musk powder with one spoon of sugar then the rose water and stir. Add the cheese slowly step by step to dissolve in the mixture. Pour in dishes and serve.
Mufattaqah
500 g sesame juice, 500 g rice, 1 kg sugar, ¼ glass turmeric, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, 5 glasses water, 1 cup of pine kernels.
Serves 10.
Preparation: 20 min.
Cooking: 180 min.
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Wash the rice several times and soak in warm water for 3 hours. Drain the rice and put it in the pressure cooker, on high heat, add the turmeric, and 10 glasses of water, stir a little. When it boils close the pressure cooker. As soon as the valve starts to whistle, reduce the heat and leave to cook for 30 minutes. Add the sesame juice, the sugar, and the cinnamon, stir well with a wooden ladle, then put the pressure cooker on the heat, stir the mixture until boiling. Close the pressure cooker. As soon as the valve starts to whistle, reduce the heat and leave to cook for 60 minutes. Open the pressure cooker and put it on low heat and stir the Mufattaqah with a wooden ladle to prevent sticking, stir continuously for 45 minutes (depends on Quality of sesame oil) until it becomes one full unit and the yellow oil (sesame oil) of the Mufattaqah comes out. Add the pine kernels, mix it. Pour in dishes and let it cool, then serve.