Salads and appetizers
ChefRania Salloum
Batata Hara
Batata hara, or potatoes with coriander and garlic, is a wonderful Lebanese appetizer! It is made with fresh green coriander, served with a squeeze of lemon, and eaten with bread... nothing better.
Batata hara, or potatoes with coriander and garlic, is a wonderful Lebanese appetizer! It is made with fresh green coriander, served with a squeeze of lemon, and eaten with bread .. nothing better.
Ingredients
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- Potatoes
- Fresh coriander
- Dried coriander
- Garlic
- Lemon juice
- Paprika
- Salt
- Oil
- From Rania, also try Cheese Sambousek
Method
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- Peel the potatoes, wash them, then cut them into small or medium cubes
- Fry them in plenty of hot oil until crispy
- In a wide pan, sauté the crushed garlic in olive oil until softened, then add the finely chopped fresh coriander and stir briefly until it wilts
- Add the fried potato cubes over the garlic and coriander after removing them from the frying oil and stir
- Sprinkle with dried coriander, paprika, lemon juice (amount to taste), salt, and a small splash of water, then stir
- Finally, add an extra sprinkle of fresh coriander and stir for one minute, then turn off the heat
- Serve batata hara immediately or cold
Recipe tags
Salads and appetizersInternationalVegetarianVeganDairy freeGluten freeNut freeEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- Potato and Egg Mfarakeh
- Cheese Sambousek
