Old MacDonald's Potato Box Recipes
Egyptian Oven Potato Stew (Sanyet Batates) Ingredients 5-6 Potatoes Beef (or Lamb or Turkey) [quantity according to budget] 3-4 onions 2 cups tomato paste (Salsa) Cardamom pod (Habahan) Salt and pepper Directions This recipe needs two cooking pots and an oven dish. Cut 1 onion into 4 pieces (this goes with the meat when it is boiled). Cut the remaining onions into ring slices and place them in a cooking pot, and keep the other onion for later use. Wash and peal the potatoes and cut them into thick slices and put in the pot, add water to cover the and add the tomato paste and salt and pepper to taste. Boil the mixture for about an hour until the potatoes are cooked. In the mean time cut the beef into 2x2x2cm cubes and put in another pot with the remaing onion and the cardimom. Boil for about 1/2 an hour, then fish the cardimom out. Preheat the oven. Layer the potatoe and onion slices in the oven dish together with the beef cubes. Pour the beef broth (Bahreez) resulting from boiling the beef in the oven dish, and put the dish in the preheated oven. Cook until the potatoe become red in colour (10-15 mins). You might need to add more broth if all the water is absorbed before that.

Old MacDonald's Potato Box Recipes

Egyptian Oven Potato Stew (Sanyet Batates)

Ingredients

5-6 Potatoes
Beef (or Lamb or Turkey) [quantity according to budget]
3-4 onions
2 cups tomato paste (Salsa)
Cardamom pod (Habahan)
Salt and pepper

Directions

This recipe needs two cooking pots and an oven dish.

Cut 1 onion into 4 pieces (this goes with the meat when it is boiled). Cut the remaining onions into ring slices and place them in a cooking pot, and keep the other onion for later use.

Wash and peal the potatoes and cut them into thick slices and put in the pot, add water to cover the and add the tomato paste and salt and pepper to taste.

Boil the mixture for about an hour until the potatoes are cooked.

In the mean time cut the beef into 2x2x2cm cubes and put in another pot with the remaing onion and the cardimom. Boil for about 1/2 an hour, then fish the cardimom out.

Preheat the oven.

Layer the potatoe and onion slices in the oven dish together with the beef cubes.

Pour the beef broth (Bahreez) resulting from boiling the beef in the oven dish, and put the dish in the preheated oven. Cook until the potatoe become red in colour (10-15 mins). You might need to add more broth if all the water is absorbed before that.