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8. *DRY "FLOWER" OCRA WITH MEAT.
CHITCHEK BAMIA ETLI.
Ingredients:
Meat....................... 1/2 pound, of lamb.
Dry Ocra ........................... 1/4 pound.
Dry Onions ......................... 2, medium.
Lemons ..................................... 2.
Egg ........................................ 1.
Plain Water ........................ 2 cupfuls.
Salt and pepper, to taste.
Method:
Soak the dry ocra over night in lukewarm water, then pull the string and wash.
When this is ready cut the meat into walnut-sized pieces and fry for twenty
minutes. Cut into it the onions and continue frying five minutes longer. This
done, add the ocra, the juice of one lemon, the water and, after seasoning the
whole to taste, boil over a medium fire until done.
Terbieh made of the juice of the remaining lemon and well mixed with the beaten
eggs should be first blended with part of the gravy and then poured over the
whole.
*This Ocra is sold strung on thread.
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