Zarb
The Bedouin underground oven: meat and vegetables sealed in a pit (or drum) with hot coals and sand, emerging hours later smoked and falling apart. Ingredients: lamb or chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, zucchini, rice, baharat, cardamom, turmeric, oil; a pit, coals and a metal lid (or zarb drum).
What it is
The Bedouin underground oven: meat and vegetables sealed in a pit (or drum) with hot coals and sand, emerging hours later smoked and falling apart. Ingredients: lamb or chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, zucchini, rice, baharat, cardamom, turmeric, oil; a pit, coals and a metal lid (or zarb drum). Recipe: 1) Season meat and vegetables; stack on racks over rice or in tiers. 2) Lower into the pit over embers. 3) Seal with a lid, wet cloth and sand — no smoke escapes. 4) Wait 2-3 hours; lift and serve. Serve: in Wadi Rum camps and village feasts, the reveal as theatre. Flavor: smoky, spiced, impossibly tender. History: zarb is the desert oven of Jordan's Bedouin, kin to Yemeni mandi and Polynesian earth ovens — sand as slow cooker. See also: Mansaf, Warbat.
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