Aab-Goosht-E Lappeh

Submitted by daan6822

"Persian/Iranian dinner"

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 15mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 600 g lamb shoulder or 600 g beef shoulder
• 50 g split peas
• 4 dried limes or 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
• 3 medium onions
• 6 medium potatoes
• cooking oil
• salt
• black pepper
• 1 teaspoon turmeric

directions

1. Peel and thinly slice onions. Fry in oil until slightly golden.
2. Wash split peas and fry slightly with onions.
3. Cut meat into small pieces, add to onions and split peas, and fry over medium heat until colour changes.
4. Add salt, black pepper, and turmeric.
5. Follow with six glasses of hot water and cook over low heat for about 30 minutes.
6. The pot should be covered with a tight lid so that little steam escapes during cooking.
7. Add crushed dried limes or lime juice.
8. Wash and peel potatoes and add in as well.
9. Cook over low heat with the pot again tightly covered for another 30 minutes. If necessary, add more hot water during cooking.
10. When cooked, pour the juice into another container.
11. With the back of a fork or spoon, fully crush the ingredients and mix well.
12. Serve both the ingredients and the juice separately with Iranian, middle-eastern, or pita bread.
13. Rice is not served with aab-goosht.
14. When eating, cut bread into small pieces and briefly soak in the juice or form morsels by wrapping a small piece of bread around some of the food.

Reviews

[man_meysam]

i think your aab goosht should be on the fire more almost 6-5 hours as we do in Iran

 

[UmmBinat]

I am guessing the dried limes should be crushed without the insides. Ie. break them apart and discard the innards as in Recipe #419710 for a less bitter powder!

 

[littlemafia]

I've made this dish before and as I saw the recipe made me want to make it again. Especially that I have some dried limes. I love Iranian stews.

 

[Elmotoo]

Wow! Everybody LOVED this! Even both the kids LOVED this! I found some naan at the grocery store (!) so I served that with it. DH was so far beyond pleased, lol. I used the lime juice variation. I thought it was a bit too limey but everyone raved. Very easy & delicious. Made for NA*ME Recipe of the Week.

 

[Halalmom]

Did like this very much! The dried limes had a very exotic flavour, which made it very interesting. The recipe calls for crushing the ingredients at the end of cooking, but I did like the look of the yellow potaoes too much, so I left them whole. Would love to make this again, but DH declared dried limes a no-go in our house :-( . Maybe I'll make it just for myself!!