Mansaf
Jordan's national dish and social contract: lamb cooked in jameed — fermented dried yogurt — served over rice and markook bread with pine nuts, eaten communally, traditionally with the right hand.
What it is
Jordan's national dish and social contract: lamb cooked in jameed — fermented dried yogurt — served over rice and markook bread with pine nuts, eaten communally, traditionally with the right hand. Ingredients: lamb on the bone, jameed (dried yogurt) or yogurt-plus-jameed, rice, markook (saj bread), pine nuts, almonds, parsley, cardamom, turmeric (for the rice's colour), ghee. Recipe: 1) Soak and blend jameed into a sauce; simmer until smooth. 2) Cook lamb; finish it in the jameed sauce. 3) Line a mansaf tray with bread; add saffron-or-turmeric rice. 4) Crown with lamb, nuts and parsley; pour sauce over (more at the table). Serve: standing guests around the tray in Bedouin custom — one hand, rice balls, no utensils. Flavor: tangy, gamey, rich. History: mansaf is the Bedouin dish of honour — serving it seals reconciliation and celebrates weddings; UNESCO listed it as Jordanian heritage in 2022. See also: Zarb, Galayet Bandora.
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