Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban)
Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban)

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Cored Zucchini stuffed with a filling of spiced rice, ground beef, tomato sauce & fresh herbs. Cored and stuffed zucchini, filled with herbal spiced rice mixtures and cooked in a garlicky yogurt sauce. A new way to serve zucchini for the whole family to enjoy.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lebanese zucchini with yoghurt sauce (kousa billaban) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
  1. Prepare 1 kg Lebanese zucchini (choose the small or medium ones)
  2. Get 1/2 kg mince beef
  3. Get 1 cup medium grain rice
  4. Take 1 tsp salt
  5. Make ready 1/2 tsp pepper
  6. Make ready Yoghurt sauce:
  7. Take 3 cups Greek yoghurt
  8. Make ready 1 tsp mint flake
  9. Get 1 tsp oregano flake
  10. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  11. Get 3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
  12. Get 3 cups water

Stuffed Zucchini with yoghurt and cream cheese sauce. Add crushed garlic with dried mint to mixture. It is very simple and the combo of zucchini and yogurt is much beloved here in Lebanon as well. Heat the olive oil and fry the zucchini slices in oil till golden and a bit softened.

Steps to make Lebanese Zucchini with Yoghurt Sauce (Kousa billaban):
  1. Using the corer knife, core the zucchini core to make it ready to be stuffed. Put aside.
  2. Preheat pan, cook mince beef without oil until well cooked, put aside.
  3. Wash medium grain rice in a bowl, add cooked mince beef salt, and peper. mix well.
  4. Stuff rice and mince beef into zucchinis, put aside.
  5. Prepare large cooking pot, put yoghurt and water, mix them well. Put the pot on the medium heat, keep stiring the yoghurt until it boils properly.
  6. Add chopped garlic, stuffed Lebanese zucchinis, and salt, lower the heat, cover the pot. Wait until the zucchinis and rice inside them cook really well.
  7. When they all cooked and soft, sprinkle mint flake and oregano, mix occasionally.
  8. It's ready to serve.

This cool and creamy Lebanese laban cucumber yogurt sauce is perfect with grilled meats, salmon or as a side salad with a variety of Lebanese specialties such as grape leaves, tabbouleh or m'juddarah. Cucumber laban holds a special place in my heart. The best zucchini to use for this recipe is the small, slightly bulbous, pale green variety often sold as Lebanese zucchini. Bring to the boil and add the crushed garlic and mint. Kousa is a traditional Lebanese recipe that I grew up eating!

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