COUSA MASHI - ARABIC STUFFED ZUCCHINI
Cousa Mashi is what you serve the guests you like the most. A bit time consuming to make, but the results are worthwhile. While it is called cousa mashi, you should include some small eggplants and a couple green peppers for variety and to make the sauce taste amazing. Cousa is a squash like zucchini but lighter in color. You could substitute zucchini for cousa. The size for the vegetables should be from 4 to 5 inches long. The recipe comes from my Jordanian mother-in-law, who is renown for her wonderful cooking. In this part of the world, a generous person is also generous with the right spices.
Provided by Cookie Jarvis
Categories Short Grain Rice
Time 2h30m
Yield 17 stuffed vegetables, 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Soak the rice in warm water for at least 1/2 an hour.
- Drain rice and mix together with ground meat, spices and olive oil.
- Cut the tops off of the cousa and eggplant. Discard.
- Core cousa and eggplant scraping out the insides so 1/4 inch is left all around. (Insides of cousa can be saved for making cousa mutabbal. See end of recipe).
- Carefully cut tops of off green peppers so they can be replaced after stuffing.
- Clean insides of green peppers.
- Stuff vegetables with rice mixture leaving some room for the rice to expand when cooked.
- Fill large pot with vegetables.
- Cut tomatoes to fill blender.
- Add 2/3 blender with water.
- Add tomato paste and salt.
- Mix in blender until smooth.
- Pour tomato sauce over vegetables.
- Add more water if necessary to cover vegatables.
- Cook, uncovered, at a simmer for one and a half hours or until vegetables are soft and rice is done. As long as the sauce is there, you can cook slowly for a longer period for a tastier dish.
- Occasionally cover with additional water to keep sauce from drying out.
- Add crushed garlic and mint to pot for a few minutes.
- Serve stuffed vegetables on a tray.
- Put sauce in a serving bowl to be added if desired.
- Note: Do not put a lid on the vegetables until they are completely cool or they may burst open.
- Cousa Mutabbal, a salad served like hummus, can be made by simmering the contents of the cousa in a small saucepan until cooked. Add a little tahini, yogurt, salt and pepper. Serve with olive oil and crushed dried mint on top. Eat with pita bread.
- Fettat Cousa, a dish served in a 9x13 pan, can be served alongside as well, by tearing up small pieces of bread, generally pita, covered by the tomato sauce from the cousa mashi. Then cover with a sauce of yogurt, garlic, and salt. Top with pinenuts fried in olive oil (along with the oil).
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