Recipes
How to make Egyptian Kifta and Rice?
Recipe by, Dr. Ola Abdel Monem - Food Blogger and Founder of Dr. Ola’s Kitchen Cooking Doctors
This is a typical Egyptian dish, made of rice meatballs soaked in delicious Tomato Sauce. Rice meatballs with Egyptian rice are one of my favorite dishes, it is so tasty and easy to make, you can eat it with rice or bread, or combine it with potatoes and eat it as a full meal.
It's made of minced beef meat and ground rice. You can either use the blender or kitchen machine to grind rice into a powdered form, or simply use rice flour. Earlier, there wasn't any rice flour in the market, so we had to grind rice at home and it was a bit hard because sometimes you can't have the powdered form that you are looking for, now with the presence of rice flour, doing this recipe became easier.
Ingredients
For Meatballs:
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500-700 gm Beef minced meat
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1 cup (measuring cups) Rice flour
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1 medium sized Onion
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a small bundle of Parsley (nearly 1/2 a cup finely chopped)
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a small bundle of Dill (nearly 1/2 a cup finely chopped)
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Oil for frying
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Salt & Pepper
Tomato Sauce:
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5 Garlic cloves finely chopped
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1 Table spoon Oil
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2 Cups (500 ml) of Tomato Juice (I used the canned one or you can use tomato paste and water)
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2 Cups water
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1 Beef Bouillon cube
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Salt, Pepper and, Cumin to taste
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Optional: 1 Large Potato cut into small cubes
Method
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In a kitchen, machine mix all meatballs ingredients (Ground beef, Parsley, Dill, Onion, Rice flour, Salt & Pepper) till you get a soft dough. (You can mix by hand too after finely chopping Onion & herbs)
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Form meatballs into small balls (or finger-like)
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Fry in Oil (not deep frying)
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In a Pot, add 1 tablespoon of Oil & the finely chopped Garlic & fry till golden (not burned) & add the Tomato sauce, water & Beef bouillon cube, then add the fried meatballs.
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leave to simmer for nearly 30 minutes. Then add Salt, Pepper, and Cumin according to taste.
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You can add Potato cubes in the last 20 minutes.
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Serve with Rice.
**Freezing Tips for less preparation time:
You can mix the meatballs ingredients and freeze the *dough, or you can form the dough into *balls or finger-like and freeze at this point, or you can *fry the meatballs then freeze!
This saves a lot of cooking time especially in the holy month of Ramadan
360Moms Team
