Vegetables Filling 2

Name: Vegetables Filling 2
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon or ¼ teaspoon ground allspice; Salt and black pepper; 250 g (8 oz) lean lamb or beef, minced; 2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley (optional); 1 tomato, skinned and chopped (optional); 90 g (3 oz) short- or medium-grain rice, washed and drained

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

By Claudia Roden

Published 1986

About

Meat and rice filling (the most common one).

Ingredients

250 g (8 oz) lean lamb or beef, minced
90 g (3

Side dish
Gluten-free

Method

Put all the ingredients together in a bowl. Knead well by hand until thoroughly blended.

Do not fill the vegetables more than three-quarters full, to allow for the expansion of the rice.