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Stuffed Artichokes
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Stuffed Artichokes

Artichokes stuffed with spiced meat in a lemon and turmeric sauce, traditional Arab style

⏱ 1 hr 15 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Arab👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

  1. 1
    Mix the ground meat with the onion, garlic, parsley, cumin, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

To assemble

  1. 2
    Remove the tough outer leaves from the artichokes, cut off the tops and scoop out the choke with a teaspoon. Soak them in water with some of the lemon juice.
    KnifeCutting boardBowl
  2. 3
    Fill the artichokes with the mixture.
  3. 4
    Arrange the artichokes, now stuffed, in a wide pot.
    Wide, shallow pot
  4. 5
    Mix the stock, rest of the lemon juice, turmeric and olive oil and pour over the artichokes.
  5. 6
    Heat the olive oil in a wide pot and sauté the chopped caps 0 minutes. Add the stock and rest of the lemon juice 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.
  6. 7
    Serve hot with the sauce from the pot.
362calories
20 gprotein
26 gcarbs
22 gfat
● protein 21%● carbs 28%● fat 51%

Per serving (390 g), of 4 servings

For the Meatball mix · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (6) · 🍳 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)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

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🧩 Built from…

Meatball mix → Stuffed vegetables

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