Kalam Polow

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 500 g basmati rice
• 400 g ground beef or 400 g ground lamb
• 750 g cabbage
• 2 large onions
• 3 -4 teaspoons tomato paste
• cooking oil
• salt
• black pepper
• turmeric

Recipe

• 1 peel and thinly slice onions. fry in oil over medium heat until slightly golden.
• 2 add meat, tomato paste, salt, pepper, and turmeric and mix well. fry over medium heat for about 15 minutes until meat changes color.
• 3 wash and finely chop cabbage. fry in oil over medium heat for 5-10 minutes.
• 4 add two glasses of hot water, salt, pepper and tomato paste and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.
• 5 add cabbage to meat and mix well.
• 6 prepare kateh or polow.
• 7 if making kateh, when water has mostly boiled off, add cabbage-meat, mix well and continue cooking.
• 8 if making polow, when rice is half-cooked and rinsed, add cabbage-meat to rice in layers and continue cooking.