Name: El Lham el Mahammer (Braised Meat)
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 4 h
Yield: For ten people.
Cuisine: Morocco
Ingredients: 2 pinches of powdered saffron; 2 large pinches of powdered cumin; 2 large onions; 3 crushed cloves of garlic; 1 lb 2 oz butter; ¼ pint olive oil; Salt to taste; 4 ½ lb shoulder and cutlets of mutton cut into three or four pieces; 2 large pinches of sweet red pepper; A large pinch of powdered ginger

Preparation info

For
ten
people.

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
4 hr

Appears in

Traditional Moroccan Cooking

By Zette Guinaudeau-Franc

Published 1995

About

Coloured with red pepper, perfumed with ginger, browned in melted butter, prepared with mutton, chicken or even a turkey. To vary the following recipe, potatoes fried in butter may be added, or half a pound of peeled almonds fried in butter. Sometimes, just before serving, the dish is garnished with eggs fried in butter.

Ingredients

4 ½ lb shoulder and cutlets of mutton cut into three or four pieces
A large pinch of powdered ginger

Method

Choose a fat piece of mutton, shoulder and cutlets. Divide into three or four pieces. Pound the saffron with a little salt, dilute with a few tablespoons of water and rub the mutton well with this golden p