Recipe
Daoud Basha with Vermicelli Rice
Daoud Basha is a traditional thick Middle-Eastern meatball stew served over a bed of rice and vermicelli.
Ingredients
- 1 kg Minced Meat (Lamb Or Beef)
- 2 tbsp Tomato Sauce
- 1 tbsp Salt
- 0.5 tsp Black Pepper
- 0.5 tsp Red Pepper
- 1 tsp Sweet Pepper Seasoning
- 0.25 tsp Cinnamon
- 0.5 kg Onion, cut into thin slices
- 1 Lemon Zest
- 0.5 cup Pine Nuts
- Vegetable Oil, for frying meatballs and onions
- 0.5 kg Tomato Sauce
- 2 cup Medium-Grain Rice
- 4 tbsp Oil
- 0.5 cup Vermicelli
- 1 tsp Salt
- 3.5 cup Water
Method
- Mix the meat with pine nuts, salt, pepper, sweet pepper and red pepper.
- Shape the meat into small balls the size of cherries.
- Cut the onion into thin slices.
- Heat the oil and fry the onions until they are soaked, then remove from the pan, and keep the frying oil.
- Fry the meatballs in the same pan until brown, then add the onion wings and lemon zest.
- Add the tomato sauce and cook the mixture over a medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave the pot aside. Serve medium grain rice with the Daoud Basha.
Medium Grain
Medium grain rice has short, plump grains that cook up soft, moist and slightly sticky — the grains cling together gently, making it easy to serve and eat. Sunwhite® medium grain Calrose rice is grown in Australia and loved across the Middle East for everyday family meals.
Its tender texture makes it ideal for dishes where the rice soaks up rich flavours — kabsa, mansaf, maqluba and machboos — as well as sushi, paella and creamy rice desserts.