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Beef Mansaf
Beef mansaf: one of the most delicious banquet-worthy dishes, ideal for celebrations. Here is a method to make beef mansaf with basmati rice, featuring beef chunks, ground beef, and a nut garnish. Enjoy your meal!
Beef Mansaf... Who doesn\'t love this banquet-worthy dish, which is often our first choice? Here is how to make it
Ingredients
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- Half a kilogram of large beef chunks
- 200 g ground beef
- Oil or ghee as desired
- Salt
- Seven-spice blend
- 2 cups basmati rice, soaked for 6 hours
- Aromatics for simmering the beef (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, loomi, bay leaves, ginger, dried coriander, black pepper)
- 1 tablespoon mansaf spice
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- 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon sweet spice, and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 large dry onion
- 1 cardamom pod
- 1 celery stalk
- Nuts to taste (for garnish)
- Click the link for the Jordanian Mansaf on the authentic way: The Jordanian Mansaf
Method
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- Put a little oil or ghee in a pot over the heat and fry the beef pieces until browned on all sides
- Cover the meat pieces with water and add the seasonings plus the onion, celery, carrots, and a pinch of salt
- When the water boils, cover the pot and simmer over low heat until the meat is well cooked
- In a second pot, put a little ghee with the drained rice and the special mansaf spice blend and stir
- Add the meat cooking liquid at a rate of two cups of liquid for each cup of rice
- When the water boils and reaches the level of the rice, lower the heat and cover the pot until the rice is cooked... Basmati rice usually needs about 20 minutesTimers: 20 min
- Meanwhile, fry the ground beef in a little ghee; add a pinch of salt and the seven-spice blend, and stir until cooked
- Use a cheesecake mold: place a portion of rice in the bottom, then the fried ground beef, and finally a layer of rice
- Invert the mold onto a serving platter, arrange the large meat pieces on top, and garnish the beef mansaf with nuts as desired
- Click the link to make authentic Jordanian mansaf: Jordanian Mansaf
Recipe tags
MainsInternationalGluten freeNut freeEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- The Jordanian Mansaf
