Rishta with Meat and Tomato Sauce

Name: Rishta with Meat and Tomato Sauce
Ingredients: Grated Parmesan or Gruyère (optional); 750 g (1½ lb) rishta, spaghetti, tagliatelle or macaroni; Oil; 1 small tin tomato concentrate; 500 g (1 lb) ripe tomatoes, skinned, or a 400-g (14-oz) tin skinned tomatoes; ¾ teaspoon ground allspice; Salt and black pepper; 750 g (12 oz) lean stewing lamb, cut into small cubes; 1 clove garlic; ½ teaspoon ground cumin (optional); 2 onions, finely chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

By Claudia Roden

Published 1986

About

This dish can be made equally well with Italian spaghetti, macaroni or tagliatelle. The sauce is rich enough to make a main dish and has a particularly Arab flavour.

Ingredients

2 onions, finely chopped
1 clove garlic
Oil
750

Main course
Pasta

Method

Fry the onions then the garlic in 2 tablespoons oil in a saucepan until golden. Add meat and brown it all over. Season with salt, pepper and allspice. Add tomatoes and tomato concentrate, stir well and simmer gently in the tomato juice, covered, adding a little water if necessary. Cook for 1½ hours,