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Name: Kousa Mehshi (stuffed squash)
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Lebanese
Ingredients: 8-10 small squash the light green kind; 3 tomatoes; 2-3 potatoes; 1-2 green peppers; 1.5 cups rice egytian rice if available; 1 can diced tomatoes or small can tomatoe paste; 1/3 lb ground lamb or up to 1/2 lb; cinnamon; salt; pepper; garlic; vegetable oil; 1/2 lemon; mint; 1/2 onion white or yellow onion, 1/2 to 1 onion

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INGREDIENTS

8-10 small squash ; the light green kind
3 tomatoes
2-3 potatoes
1-2 green peppers
1.5 cups rice ; egytian rice if available
1 can diced tomatoes ; or small can tomatoe paste
1/3 lb ground lamb ; or up to 1/2 lb
cinnamon
salt
pepper
garlic
vegetable oil
1/2 lemon
mint
1/2 onion ; white or yellow onion, 1/2 to 1 onion

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INSTRUCTIONS

1. Core vegetables (squash, potatoes, green peppers, and tomatoes), using a squash corer if possible (or vegetable peeler if not available), by cutting small hole at one end and carving out a column. Then scrape the insides until left with medium width outside edges (not so thin it will fall apart, but thin enough to create a hole to put rice/lamb into. Be sure to shave off the bottom stem part of the squash. Keep the squash insides to make another dish. Keep the tomato insides in another bowl. Keep the green pepper stem to put back on so the insides don't fall out later.

2. Rinse 1.5 cups of rice with water and soak. Then in a large bowl mix the soaked (uncooked) rice with ground lamb, cinnamon, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt, and pepper.

3. Stuff the vegetables with the meat/rice mixture. Do not pack too tight, just loosely with a lot of room. Rice will expand as it cooks.

4. Put stuffed veggies in large pot.

5. Mix in one bowl the tomato insides, some diced tomatoes (or paste) and water, salt, pepper, and lemon. Pour this mixture into large pot with veggies.

6. Turn pot on high heat on stove top. Add pepper to top. Fill up pot with enough water to be halfway up pot/veggies.

7. Cook for ~40-50 minutes. (might have the time wrong, it is more than 30 minutes, but i think less than 1 hour) While it cooks, spoon sauce over top a few times.

For the side dish with the squash insides:

1. Fry chopped onions in vegetable oil in pan.

2. Add squash and garlic minced with salt and pepper and fry more.

3. Add copped mint on top (and add lemon - optional).

4. Eat with bread.

NOTES

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Kousa Mehshi (stuffed squash)

8-10  small squash the light green kind
3  tomatoes 
2-3  potatoes 
1-2  green peppers 
1.5 cups rice egytian rice if available
1 can diced tomatoes or small can tomatoe paste
1/3 lb ground lamb or up to 1/2 lb
  cinnamon 
  salt 
  pepper 
  garlic 
  vegetable oil 
1/2  lemon 
  mint 
1/2  onion white or yellow onion, 1/2 to 1 onion

2. Rinse 1.5 cups of rice with water and soak. Then in a large bowl mix the soaked (uncooked) rice with ground lamb, cinnamon, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt, and pepper.

3. Stuff the vegetables with the meat/rice mixture. Do not pack too tight, just loosely with a lot of room. Rice will expand as it cooks.

4. Put stuffed veggies in large pot.

5. Mix in one bowl the tomato insides, some diced tomatoes (or paste) and water, salt, pepper, and lemon. Pour this mixture into large pot with veggies.

6. Turn pot on high heat on stove top. Add pepper to top. Fill up pot with enough water to be halfway up pot/veggies.

7. Cook for ~40-50 minutes. (might have the time wrong, it is more than 30 minutes, but i think less than 1 hour) While it cooks, spoon sauce over top a few times.

For the side dish with the squash insides:

1. Fry chopped onions in vegetable oil in pan. 
2. Add squash and garlic minced with salt and pepper and fry more.
3. Add copped mint on top (and add lemon - optional).
4. Eat with bread.

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Serving Size: 1 Serving (402g)
Recipe Makes: 6 Servings

Calories: 307
Calories from Fat: 67 (22%)

Amt Per Serving		% DV

	Total Fat 7.4g	10 %
	Saturated Fat 2.8g	14 %
	Monounsaturated Fat 3g
	Polyunsanturated Fat 1g
Cholesterol 18.4mg		6 %
Sodium 33.4mg		1 %
Potassium 875mg		23 %
Total Carbohydrate 51.1g		15 %
	Dietary Fiber 5g	20 %
	Sugars, other 46.2g
Protein 10.4g		15 %
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