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Throwdown inspired Lebanese Lamb
Doug in Eggmonton
Posts: 1,999
Couldn't make up my mind which way to go with the throwdown, Cumin, rice and Pistachios sounded like a dish I once had in a lebanese restaurant. Scallops sounded like one of my favorite appetizers. So I made Rice flour and cumin crusted scalops in a warm bacon sherry, cranberry reduction with cumin roasted pistachios as an appetizer. And I made lebanese lamb and nut scented rice as the main.
Scallop raws:
Toased some nuts in the egg
Quite a few nuts actually:
Randi made apple and Lemon Merangue pies
Here's the Lebanese Rice and lamb raws
The boneless leg of lamb was coated inside and out with toasted cumin corriander and pepper, which were then ground with a stick of cinnamon. Then tied and left in the fridge for 3 hours.
Diced the onions and garlic then sauteed them in a large dutch oven until carmelized.
Meanwhile toasted some spices and thawed some home made stock.
When the onions were ready added another bunch of toasted cumin, corriander, pepper and cinnamon, stirred the basmati rice in and coated it in the oil, then added the chicken stock, brought to a boil and put on the egg with the lamb and a few chicken legs for those who didn't like lamb.
In the mean time I did the scallops by grinding rice and cumin into cumin rice flour. Then some buckboard bacon, shallots, sherry, sherry vinegar and cranberry juice were reduced to make a sauce. Then I coated the top and bottom of the scallops with the cumin rice flour mixture and seared the scallops over very high heat.
The scallops qualified for the throwdown right up until this picture... They could have been cooked on the egg, but the egg was busy (Remember the lamb)
and Served:
When the lamb and chicken was all cooked added the toasted nuts a handfull of mint and two handfulls of parsley from the garden.
Then the rice mixture was split 80-10 into two batches and then sliced the lamb and chicken into small pieces which were mixed separately into the rice and served.
Plated
Hanging off to the left of the plate were some cute skewerd grape tomatoes basil and bocconncini skewers, that my daughter made up and I grilled while the meats were being chopped up.
It was an amazing meal according to the guests. Thanks for the inspration throwdown folks.
Doug
Scallop raws:
Toased some nuts in the egg
Quite a few nuts actually:
Randi made apple and Lemon Merangue pies
Here's the Lebanese Rice and lamb raws
The boneless leg of lamb was coated inside and out with toasted cumin corriander and pepper, which were then ground with a stick of cinnamon. Then tied and left in the fridge for 3 hours.
Diced the onions and garlic then sauteed them in a large dutch oven until carmelized.
Meanwhile toasted some spices and thawed some home made stock.
When the onions were ready added another bunch of toasted cumin, corriander, pepper and cinnamon, stirred the basmati rice in and coated it in the oil, then added the chicken stock, brought to a boil and put on the egg with the lamb and a few chicken legs for those who didn't like lamb.
In the mean time I did the scallops by grinding rice and cumin into cumin rice flour. Then some buckboard bacon, shallots, sherry, sherry vinegar and cranberry juice were reduced to make a sauce. Then I coated the top and bottom of the scallops with the cumin rice flour mixture and seared the scallops over very high heat.
The scallops qualified for the throwdown right up until this picture... They could have been cooked on the egg, but the egg was busy (Remember the lamb)
and Served:
When the lamb and chicken was all cooked added the toasted nuts a handfull of mint and two handfulls of parsley from the garden.
Then the rice mixture was split 80-10 into two batches and then sliced the lamb and chicken into small pieces which were mixed separately into the rice and served.
Plated
Hanging off to the left of the plate were some cute skewerd grape tomatoes basil and bocconncini skewers, that my daughter made up and I grilled while the meats were being chopped up.
It was an amazing meal according to the guests. Thanks for the inspration throwdown folks.
Doug
Comments
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This looks amazing.
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Now thats a 5 star meal Doug,,, Great job
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Wow Doug,that looks great!!!!! :woohoo: You prolly could have won the throwdown if you only had another egg Just sayin........ :P :woohoo:
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Simply amazing, super creative and very mouth watering.
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Great meal Doug you sure pulled it off
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Doug, That looks like an amazing meal!! :laugh: :laugh: You were a cooking machine!! :woohoo: Everything looks fantastic! Nicely done, to say the least!
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Great looking dinner, Doug. Scallops look fantastic.
Faith
TampaHappily egging on my original large BGE since 1996... now the owner of 5 eggs. Call me crazy, everyone else does!
3 Large, 1 Small, 1 well-used Mini -
Doug,
Looks great...reminds me my dad has been slowing down on the amount of Lebanese food he usually makes..tougher as we all get older.
Recently my aunt gave me a meat grinder she had purchased for my grandmother, who then only used it once before she decided she was done cooking...I may have to whip up some Kibbeh. -
Dose look awesome. ? Are those your own tomatoes and basil??
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