Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban)
Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban)

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Meanwhile make the yogurt sauce and drop the partially cooked zucchini in the yogurt sauce and continue cooking A delicious Lebanese stuffed zucchini in a tangy yogurt sauce. And yes you can use kousa, I use any of them whatever is available or in sale. The best and easy delicious stuffed zucchini yogurt.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
  1. Get 1 kg Lebanese zucchini (choose the small or medium ones)
  2. Get 1/2 kg mince beef
  3. Prepare 1 cup medium grain rice
  4. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  5. Take 1/2 tsp pepper
  6. Take Yoghurt sauce:
  7. Make ready 3 cups Greek yoghurt
  8. Make ready 1 tsp mint flake
  9. Take 1 tsp oregano flake
  10. Get 1 tsp salt
  11. Make ready 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
  12. Get 3 cups water

Add crushed garlic with dried mint to mixture. It is very simple and the combo of zucchini and yogurt is much beloved here in Lebanon as well. Heat the olive oil and fry the zucchini slices in oil till golden and a bit softened. ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon. Cut each zucchini in half lengthways.

Steps to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
  1. Using the corer knife, core the zucchini core to make it ready to be stuffed. Put aside.
  2. Preheat pan, cook mince beef without oil until well cooked, put aside.
  3. Wash medium grain rice in a bowl, add cooked mince beef salt, and peper. mix well.
  4. Stuff rice and mince beef into zucchinis, put aside.
  5. Prepare large cooking pot, put yoghurt and water, mix them well. Put the pot on the medium heat, keep stiring the yoghurt until it boils properly.
  6. Add chopped garlic, stuffed Lebanese zucchinis, and salt, lower the heat, cover the pot. Wait until the zucchinis and rice inside them cook really well.
  7. When they all cooked and soft, sprinkle mint flake and oregano, mix occasionally.
  8. It's ready to serve.

This can be done with an apple corer, but be careful not to pierce the skins of the zucchini. The best zucchini to use for this recipe is the small, slightly bulbous, pale green variety often sold as Lebanese zucchini. Hollow out the zucchini using a manakra, which is a tool like a long apple corer designed To adapt this kousa mahshi recipe for vegetarians, use chickpeas instead of minced beef. This cool and creamy Lebanese laban cucumber yogurt sauce is perfect with grilled meats, salmon or as a side salad with a variety of Lebanese specialties such as grape leaves, tabbouleh or m'juddarah. Cucumber laban holds a special place in my heart.

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