Lebanese: Stuffed Zucchini, Potatoes, & Cabbage

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/2 cup rice, uncooked
• 4 ounces tomato sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice
• 1 dash cinnamon
• 1 cup lean ground beef or 1 cup ground lamb
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 dash black pepper
• 6 baby zucchini, par boiled and center scooped out
• 3 potatoes, peeled, halved and center scooped out
• 1 head cabbage, leaves taken off whole and blanched
• 1 beef bone
• 1 lb tomato
• 1/2 pint water

Recipe

• 1 in a bowl combine the rice, tomato sauce, allspice, cinnamon, ground meat, salt and pepper.
• 2 stuff the zucchini and potatoes with the meat mixture.
• 3 roll remainder of meat mixture in the blanched cabbage leaves (cigarette style); about 1 - 2 t each.
• 4 in a large pot put 1/2 of the rolled cabbage leaves flat on the bottom.
• 5 place beef bone on top of cabbage.
• 6 next, layer the zucchini, then potatoes, then the remainder of the cabbage rolls.
• 7 top with tomatoes and water.
• 8 cook, covered, over medium heat for about 25 minutes.