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Iraqi Mahshi – Vegetables Stuffed with Meat and Rice
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Iraqi Mahshi – Vegetables Stuffed with Meat and Rice

Vegetables stuffed with an Iraqi-style spiced meat and rice mixture with tomato sauce.

⏱ 1 hr 30 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

  1. 1
    Mix the ground meat with the onion, parsley, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, rice, olive oil, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

To assemble

  1. 2
    Cut the cap off the vegetables and set it aside. Scoop out the insides with a teaspoon.
    KnifeCutting board
  2. 3
    Fill the vegetables with the mixture up to ¾ full: the rice swells as it cooks.
    💡Fill only three-quarters full: the uncooked rice swells inside the vegetable, and a full filling gets pushed out.
  3. 4
    Cover each vegetable with its cap.
  4. 5
    Arrange the vegetables, now stuffed, in a wide pot.
    Wide, shallow pot
  5. 6
    Mix the stock, tomato paste, salt and oil and pour over the vegetables.
  6. 7
    Heat the oil in a wide pot and sauté the chopped caps 0 minutes. Add the tomato paste, stock and salt and stir until the paste dissolves.
    ⚙ SimmeringStoveLid
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
460calories
20 gprotein
33 gcarbs
26 gfat
● protein 18%● carbs 30%● fat 53%

Per serving (650 g), of 4 servings

For the Meatball mix · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Lid · Also works: Aluminum foil (tight aluminum foil) · Plate (an upside-down plate)
  • Wide, shallow pot · Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (Layers instead of a single layer)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)

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🧩 Built from…

Meatball mix → Stuffed vegetables

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