Guide to Make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban) in 14 Minutes at Home

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Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Growing up kousa bil laban was what I used to consider comfort food; I loved it (anything with a yogurt sauce really). This classic Lebanese dish might seem complicated, but once you master a few tricks (stuffing the zucchini and cooking the yogurt). Meanwhile make the yogurt sauce and drop the partially cooked zucchini in the yogurt sauce and continue cooking A delicious Lebanese stuffed zucchini in a tangy yogurt sauce.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):

1. Get 1 kg Lebanese zucchini (choose the small or medium ones)
2. Make ready 1/2 kg mince beef
3. Take 1 cup medium grain rice
4. Take 1 tsp salt
5. Make ready 1/2 tsp pepper
6. Get Yoghurt sauce:
7. Prepare 3 cups Greek yoghurt
8. Take 1 tsp mint flake
9. Get 1 tsp oregano flake
10. Make ready 1 tsp salt
11. Prepare 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
12. Make ready 3 cups water

Kousa is a local veggie here in Jordan and other middle eastern countries. ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon. Cut each zucchini in half lengthways. This can be done with an apple corer, but be careful not to pierce the skins of the zucchini. The best zucchini to use for this recipe is the small, slightly bulbous, pale green variety often sold as Lebanese zucchini.

Instructions

Instructions to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):

1. Using the corer knife, core the zucchini core to make it ready to be stuffed. Put aside.
2. Preheat pan, cook mince beef without oil until well cooked, put aside.
3. Wash medium grain rice in a bowl, add cooked mince beef salt, and peper. mix well.
4. Stuff rice and mince beef into zucchinis, put aside.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. When they all cooked and soft, sprinkle mint flake and oregano, mix occasionally.
8. It's ready to serve.

Hollow out the zucchini using a manakra, which is a tool like a long apple corer designed To adapt this kousa mahshi recipe for vegetarians, use chickpeas instead of minced beef. This cool and creamy Lebanese laban cucumber yogurt sauce is perfect with grilled meats, salmon or as a side salad with a variety of Lebanese specialties such as grape leaves, tabbouleh or m'juddarah. Cucumber laban holds a special place in my heart. When I think back to my childhood food is always in the picture. Kousa is the Lebanese version of stuffed zucchini.

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