Omani Shuwa 🇴🇲 - Slow Cooked Lamb | Episode 1 - Dine & Discover

mutton

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: goat

Chicken is leaner and more affordable than mutton.

date syrup

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Honey provides sweetness with fewer calories.

Make a spice mix with cloves, coriander seeds, cumin, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, dried chili flakes, black peppercorns, and salt.

Blend the spice mix into a fine powder.

In a separate bowl, mix garlic paste, ginger paste, vegetable oil, vinegar, and brown sugar to form a paste.

Make slits in the lamb to allow the spices to penetrate.

Massage the spice paste into the lamb using hands.

Wrap the lamb in banana leaves tightly to keep the juices in.

Optionally, refrigerate the wrapped lamb for 24 to 48 hours for flavor to intensify.

Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius.

Cook the lamb in the oven for roughly four hours.

Prepare saffron rice by grinding saffron with sugar, adding water, and letting it sit.

Cook three cups of rice with an equal amount of water plus one cup, oil, and salt; add saffron while boiling.

Plate the lamb on top of the rice and garnish with pomegranate and coriander.

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

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Dietary