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Maqluba or Maqlooba is an upside down rice dish that is very versatile. Maqluba is a one dish meal made traditionally with cauliflower or eggplants. There are as many variations to this dish as there are families in the region, but the method is the same.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook eggplant_and_meat_maqlouba/ upside down beef-eggplant and rice: using 20 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Eggplant_and_meat_maqlouba/ upside down beef-eggplant and rice::

1. Take 750 g beef meat/ chunked into cubes
2. Prepare 3 eggplants big size
3. Take 3 cups meat broth
4. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon 7 spices
5. Prepare 2 teaspoons salt
6. Take 1 spoon salt for eggplant and minced meat
7. Take 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
8. Take 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder (optional)
9. Take 1 teaspoon oil to cook the minced meat
10. Take oil to fry the eggplants
11. Prepare Spices used to boil the meat:
12. Take 3 bay leaves
13. Take 2 cardamom seeds
14. Prepare 1/2 nutmeg seed
15. Take stick cinnamon
16. Take 5 carnations seeds
17. Make ready as needed water
18. Take To garnish:
19. Prepare 2 cups toasted nuts (type as desired)
20. Take 100 g minced meat (optional)

Maqluba (مقلوبة) is Arabic for "upside-down," which is how this popular Palestinian dish of rice, eggplant and meat is served. This dish features meat, rice, and vegetables. When the meal has finished cooking, you take the pot and flip it upside down onto a large serving platter, and You may use beef or chicken in place of the lamb, if you like. I think of this maqluba recipe as a savory pineapple upside down cake, but made with chicken, tomatoes, eggplant, cauliflower and rice.

Instructions to make Eggplant_and_meat_maqlouba/ upside down beef-eggplant and rice::

1. In a pot, pour oil, add the meat cubes, spices, stir well together until meat changes color. Add the water to boil the meat till well done (around 1 hour).
2. Note: you may use pressure cooker that needs 20 mins.
3. Remove the meat, strain the broth and keep it aside.
4. Wash the rice, soak for 1/2 hour and drain well.
5. Peel eggplant, cut into long medium thickness pieces, salt and fry in heavy oil till brown color, remove from oil and repeat till all quantity ends.
6. In a deep pot, put the boiled meat cubes, add some rice quantity then an eggplant layer, use a fork to make holes in eggplant so you let the broth passes through the rice. Arrange the same layers till quantity ends.
7. Add salt and spices.
8. Pour 3 cups of meat broth.
9. Cover the pot and cook the rice on medium heat till boiling, then low the heat until well cooked (around 20 mins).
10. In a wide pan, pour around 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil, add the minced meat with salt and spices. Then, stir till well done.
11. Prepare a serving container, that has a bigger diameter than the cooking pot, above the pot, and flip the maqlouba over the serving container, garnish with minced meat and toasted nuts.
12. Served hot.
13. Serve yogurt and cucumber salad aside or as desired.
14. Note: - To avoid oily eggplant there is an advice: - After peeling and cut into pieces the eggplant, soak it in salt and water for 1/2 hour, drain well, place on cotton kitchen towel, then drizzle with bit of flour before frying.
15. Made by: Tala Odaymat

Maqluba can also be made with lamb, beef or eliminate the meat for a vegetarian dish. NYT Cooking: A Palestinian tradition, maqluba means "upside down" in Arabic and is a pot of stewed meat, rice and fried vegetables, cooked and flipped onto a serving dish to form an impressive tower. Maqloubeh Palestinian rice and eggplant casserole. Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. This is a dish you could make vegetarian or omnivore but I chose to make a chicken version of this dish.

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