Bahmia (lamb)
Bahmia (lamb)

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Add the lamb meat to the sautéed onions. Add a teaspoon or two of salt to the lamb. Sprinkle with oil and place in broiler and lightly brown the okra.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook bahmia (lamb) using 10 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Bahmia (lamb):
  1. Get 2 large onions
  2. Get 3 cups basmati rice
  3. Get 2 lamb shanks (or equivalent of cheaper cuts)
  4. Take 400 g Ladies fingers (bahmia)
  5. Get 50 g/ half a packet of coriander
  6. Get 120 g to 150g of tomato paste
  7. Take 2-4 large tomatoes
  8. Get 2 sticks cinnamon
  9. Take Seasoning: salt, tumeric, a small pinch of saffron
  10. Make ready Others: olive oil

Bamia (Arabic: بامية ‎, cooked okra; Greek: μπάμια; Turkish: bamya), or bamia bi-lahm (Arabic: البامية باللحم أو شوربة البامية ‎ okra with meat), is a Middle Eastern, Anatolian and Greek stew prepared using lamb, okra and tomatoes as primary ingredients. Additional ingredients used include tomato sauce, onion, garlic, cilantro (coriander), vegetable. Heat the coconut oil in a large saucepan. Pour in the tomatoes, coconut milk and a little salt.

Steps to make Bahmia (lamb):
  1. Peel and dice 2 onions
  2. Add into a pot with hot olive oil, saute onions until brown
  3. Wash the rice a few times then fill up to double it's height in water and leave the rice to soak for 10 Min. Add salt and leave to soak till ready to start cooking.
  4. Add the lamb meat to the sautéed onions. Add a teaspoon or two of salt to the lamb.
  5. Cook the lamb until visibly brown or well seared then add water and continue to cook by simmering for 45 to 60 min on its own. Carry on with other steps while cooking but start adding the other ingredients in order after this initial time. Bonus: Pictured below are the various pots and pans used for reference in size.
  6. Start cooking the rice by bringing to a boil (approx. 15 min or until half cooked, the rice should look half transparent/opaque). Then drain the rice and Blanche it with cold water through a colander. The rice will be further cooked later.
  7. (optional) trim the less sightly and more pulpy bits of the ladies fingers
  8. Start frying the ladies fingers in olive oil medium heat. Cook until softer, approx. 5-7min
  9. Soak some saffron, a small pinch, in hot water. Add into mixture into the lamb pot after about 5 Min
  10. Rice with tardic: Melt a stick of butter in water in the pot used for the rice, switch off the flame and pour out half to save for later. Line the bottom of the pot with wrap bread. Add a bit of the butter water mixture ontop. Then add the rice back in to the pot. Pour the rest of the butter mixture and a few dashes of olive oil and mix it in a bit. Fold a piece of cloth over the lid and continue cooking the rice under low heat. Approx. 30 min. Bonus note: slightly higher heat at the start.
  11. Fry the cinnamon to release the flavour. Then add 2 tablespoons of tumeric and mix until the olive oil is absorbed. Then add the tomato paste. You may use grilled tomatos to supplement. Use water to rinse the can or jar and as a way to add water to the mix. Cook on medium heat for about 2 Min then add to the lamb pot, use water again to "rinse" that frying pot.
  12. Fry the tomato until it starts turning mushy.
  13. Cut off the bottom part of the coriander with the thick connective stem and roots. Then break the coriander in half. Add the less leafy half into the lamb pot now. The leafier bit will be added later.
  14. Start cooking the rice by bringing to a boil (approx. 15 min or until half cooked, the rice should look half transparent/opaque). Then drain the rice and Blanche it with cold water through a colander. The rice will be further cooked later.
  15. Start getting the ladies fingers in olive oil medium heat. Cook until softer, approx. 5-7min
  16. Soak some saffron, maybe a small pinch, in hot water.
  17. Rice with tardic: Melt a stick of butter in water in the pot used for the rice, switch off the flame and pour out had to save for later. Line the bottom of the pot with wrap bread. Add a bit of the butter water mixture back. Then add the rice back in to the pot. Pour the rest of the butter mixture and a few dashes of olive oil and mix it in a bit. Fold a piece of cloth over the lid and continue cooking the rice under low heat. Approx. 30 min. Bonus note: slightly higher heat at the start.
  18. Fry the cinnamon to release the flavour. Then add 2 tablespoons of tumeric and mix until the olive oil is absorbed. Then add the tomato paste. You may use grilled tomatos to supplement. Use water to rinse the can or jar and as a way to add water to the mix. Cook on medium heat for about 2 Min then add to the lamb pot, use water again to "rinse" that frying pot.
  19. Fry the tomato until it starts turning mushy.
  20. Cut off the bottom part of the coriander with the thick connective stem and roots. Then break the customer on half. Add the less leafy half into the lamb pot now. The leafier but will be added later.
  21. 10 Min later add the rest of the coriander and tomato. Continue cooking another 5-7 Min. Taste and add salt (or more tomato paste etc. as you see fit next time you cook this again). Pictured below is a close-up of the dish when served later.
  22. Plate out the rice and scoop out the remaining rice into a bowl for keeping. Now only the "tardic" will be left. Add some olive oil if you need, then put the pot back on high heat and get the tardic crispy. If you send it's starting to burn quickly turn it off. Scrape the edges of the tardic. Then Blanche the bottom of the pan on cold water and flip the tardic onto a plate. If done right it should come out nicely if not scrape it out.
  23. If desired peel some raw garlic as a companion condiment. Plate everything as pictured in the dish and enjoy!

Heat olive oil in a large pot over high heat. Lamb chops mildly marinated in different spices. Boneless chicken breast marinated in our seasoning. DIRECTIONS Trim the baby okras and wash in cold water and then place in a colander to drain. In a large saucepan, heat the oil or butter and add in the meat and brown on all side.

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