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Zaher Matboukh is a winter dish. It is prepared from white cauliflower deep fried in vegetable ghee, then cooked with ground meat, crushed garlic, ground cumin and water, and served with rice.

Let’s make Zaher Matboukh:

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In Syria, there are several stuffed vegetables dishes such as Kousa Mehshi (stuffed vegetable marrow (marrow squash) with meat and rice, and cooked in tomato sauce), Bathenjan Mehshi (similar to kousa mehshi but prepared with eggplants), Yabraq (grape leaves stuffed with meat and rice and cooked in lemon juice sauce) and others.

Today’s post is about Sheikh Al-Mehshi, it is one of the most important dishes in Syria, and considered as the king of stuffed vegetables.

Sheikh Al-Mehshi is prepared from vegetable marrow (marrow squash) stuffed with meat mixed with pine nuts, walnuts and parsley, then deep fried in a mixture of ghee and olive oil, then cooked in sauce.

There are two kinds of Sheikh Al-Mehshi, one is cooked with yogurt sauce and named “Sheik Al-Mehshi Bel-Laban” and the other is cooked with tahini sauce and named “Sheikh Al-Mehshi Bet-Tehineh”. Sheikh Al-Mehshi is served with rice.

Let’s make Sheikh Al-Mehshi:

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Zaher Meqli means fried cauliflower, very popular in Syria, easy and delicious.

Let’s make Zaher Meqli:

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The idea of Shesh Barak is similar to Kibbeh Labniyeh. In Shesh Barak, Mini Sambousek is prepared and cooked in yogurt sauce.

Let’s make Shesh Barak:

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In Syria, we cook green beans in two ways:

1. Fasouliyeh Bez-Zeit: green beans cooked with olive oil, crushed garlic and ground coriander seeds, (Some people make Fasoulia Bez-Zeit in different way, they add to it tomato chunks and onion).

2. Fasouliyeh Bel-Bandourah: green beans cooked with meat, onion and tomato sauce.

Fasouliyeh is the Arabic word for green beans, Zeit is the Arabic word for oil.

Let’s make Fasouliyeh Bez-Zeit:

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