Ingredients: Filling: Wrapper: Directions: In a bowl, add the ground beef, carrot, lotus root, ginger, garlic and green onion. Mix it all together. Add the cornstarch, soy sauce, shaoxing wine and salt and mix it in to the meat mixture and set it aside. Add the flour and water into another bowl and knead it…
Category: Beef
Macaroni Watani (Afghan Pasta)
Ingredients: Soak the Quroot in a bowl with warm water overnight, this will break down the quroot and make it slurry Heat some oil in a pan, add garlic, and cook for 30 seconds. Add the chopped onions and cook them till they turn golden brown. Add the ground spices (turmeric, coriander, cumin, chili, and…
Kichri Quroot
Kichri Quroot is an Afghan dish that consists of shola (sticky rice), meatballs, and quroot (whey). It’s a hearty and loved dish all across Afghanistan. Ingredients: For the meatball mixture: For meatball sauce: For Shola (Rice): For garnish: Directions: Add all the meatball mixture ingredients into a large bowl and mix well either with hand…
Ground Beef Enchiladas
Ingredients: For the Salsa Roja: Dried Ancho Chilies (2 chilies) Dried Chipotle Chilies (4-6 chilies) Dried Cascabel Chiles (2 chilies) Dired Pasilla Chilies (1-2 chilies) Onions (2 medium; peeled and chopped) Plum Tomatoes (2; halved) Garlic (3 cloves; peeled) Dried Oregano Salt (to taste) Pepper (to taste) For Ground Beef Filling: Ground Beef (1-2 pounds)…
Budae-Jjigae
Directions: For the stock: Dried anchovies (2 tablespoons) Shiitake mushrooms (3-4 mushrooms) Water (8 cups) Nori sheet (4×6 sheet) Beef small cubes (1/2 pound) Salt (to taste) For the seasoning paste: Garlic (6 cloves; minced) Gochujang (2-3 tablespoons) Korean red pepper flakes (2 tablespoons) Soy sauce (1 teaspoon) Water (2 tablespoons) For stew: Glass noodles…
Seekh Kababs with Tahini sauce
Ingredients: For Seekh Kababs: Ground Beef (4 lbs; You can substitute with any ground meat, best option is ground Lamb) Garlic (3-4; grated) Ginger (1/2 inch; grated) Cilantro (a bunch; finely chopped) Mint Leaves (a handful, finely chopped) Coriander Powder (2 tablespoons) Cumin Powder (1 tablespoon) Turmeric Powder (1 teaspoon) Chili Powder (1 tablespoon) Salt…
Kevin’s Famous Chili
Kevin Malone brings some of his “Kevin’s Famous Chili” at least once year to the office. After 4 months of lock-down restrictions, Kevin thought this might be a good time to bring in some of his chili to the office. Because I am on a Keto diet, Kevin was kind enough to modify his recipe…
Meatball Tajine with Eggs
Ingredients: Ground Beef (1 pound) Eggs (4-5) Garlic (2 cloves; minced) Onion (1 large onion chopped) Ground cumin (2 teaspoon) Paprika (2 teaspoon) Turmeric Powder (1 teaspoon) Red chili powder/ Cayenne pepper powder (1 tablespoon) Cinnamon powder (a pinch) Crushed Tomatoes (28 oz) Cilantro (A bunch; finely chopped) Directions: In a bowl add the ground…
Hyderabadi Beef Kheema
Ingredients: Minced beef/lamb (1 pound) Onion (1 large; finely chopped) Green chilies (2-3 finely chopped) Tomato puree (3 tomatoes) Cumin Seeds (1 teaspoon) Bay Leaves (2 leaves) Cloves (5-6) Cardamon (1-2 pods) Ginger & Garlic Paste (1 tablespoon) Turmeric Powder (1/4 teaspoon) Chili Powder (1 tablespoon) Coriander Powder (1 tablespoon) Garam Masala (1 tablespoon) Mint…
Beef & Aubergine Fatteh
Ingredients: Pita Bread (4 cut into triangles) Ground Beef (1 lb) Aubergine (1 large cut into small cubes) Aleppo pepper (1 tablespoon) Cumin seeds (2 teaspoon) Coriander powder (1 teaspoon) Onion (medium sized finely chopped) Yogurt (2 cups) Tahini (3-4 tablespoon) Lemon juice (1 lemon) Garlic (2 minced) Pine nuts (50 grams/ 1.7 oz toasted)…
The Ghee Spot 