Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lebanese stuffed squash/zucchini. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Lebanese Stuffed Kousa Squash is a true family favorite! Recently I learned that the average bag of carrots found in your local grocery store has been in Kousa is an Arabic word for zucchini. Kousa is another name for squash or zucchini in Arabic. They're often called Mexican Squash, Mexican Zucchini or Grey Zucchini.

Lebanese stuffed squash/zucchini is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Lebanese stuffed squash/zucchini is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lebanese stuffed squash/zucchini using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese stuffed squash/zucchini:

1. Prepare medium sized squash/zucchini
2. Get ground lean meat, uncooked
3. Make ready short grain rice, uncooked
4. Make ready tomato, grated to take off skin
5. Get tomato, finely diced
6. Get salt, pepper, and allspice
7. Make ready medium sized garlic, grated
8. Prepare Mint, finely chopped
9. Prepare lemon, juiced
10. Take vegetable oil
11. Get Water, enough to completely cover squash.
12. Take tomato paste
13. Prepare Garlic, grated
14. Take salt/pepper
15. Prepare lemon juice

It honestly took me a while to find them locally, since my Middle-Eastern grocer does not sell produce. Stuffed squash, courgette, marrow, mahshi, or zucchini is a dish common in the region of the former Ottoman Empire from the Balkans to the Levant and Egypt, a kind of dolma. It consists of various kinds of squash or zucchini stuffed with rice and sometimes meat and cooked on the stovetop or in the. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links.

Instructions to make Lebanese stuffed squash/zucchini:

1. Clean squash and use the special utensil to core it out. This tool can be found in middle eastern shops.
2. Mix rice, meat, grated tomato, chopped tomato, lemon juice, oil, garlic, mint, and spices.
3. Stuff squash 3/4 full and tap squash on palm of hand slightly to bring down stuffing. It should not be tightly packed,keep in mind rice will soak up liquid and puff. Rice should NOT reach the top of squash, leave about an inch empty.
4. Lay stuffed squash in a layer in pot. Keep layering them flat until they are all in the pot.
5. Add water, enough to submerge the squash. Add the tomato paste, salt/pepper, lemon juice and grated garlic. These flavors mirror the flavors in the squash.
6. Cover squash with a large round glass plate and top it with a kettle filled with water. This may look funny, but it will ensure they are fully submerged and will complete cooking the rice inside all at the same time.
7. On high heat, let come to a rolling boil, bring heat down to medium and cook for 1 hour. After 1 hour, take kettle and plate off and cover with lid for 15 more min.
8. Take one out, poke it with a fork, it should be tender. Cut it up, rice should be soft. Serve with some of the sauce on top. Enjoy.

It consists of various kinds of squash or zucchini stuffed with rice and sometimes meat and cooked on the stovetop or in the. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Arabic food is a big favorite at First, start with the smallest yellow squash (or zucchini) that you can find. I prefer to use yellow squash but you can also make this with zucchini. Lebanese Stuffed Zucchini - Kousa Mahshi.

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