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Beef and Okra Bamia
najla
"A simple but amazing Middle Eastern dish containing okra with tomato sauce and wonderful spices. For a vegetarian dish, you can choose to omit the steak completely. Serve with white rice."
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Ingredients
1 h 10 m servings 366 calsOriginal recipe yields 6 servings
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- Heat olive oil in a large pot over high heat. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon salt over steak cubes; cook and stir meat in the hot oil with onion and garlic until meat is seared, about 5 minutes; reduce heat to medium; cook and stir until meat is browned, about 3 more minutes. Remove steak pieces and set aside.
- Stir tomato sauce and tomato paste into same pot; mix in okra, water, coriander, white pepper, and cumin. Bring to a boil; season with additional salt. Reduce heat to low and simmer until okra is tender, 30 to 45 minutes; return pieces of beef to the bamia. Simmer until flavors are blended, about 10 minutes; garnish with slices of jalapeno pepper.
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- Aluminum foil helps keep food moist, ensures it cooks evenly, keeps leftovers fresh, and makes clean-up easy.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving: 366 calories; 29.1 g fat; 12.4 g carbohydrates; 16 g protein; 33 mg cholesterol; 1707 mg sodium. Full nutrition
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Most helpful positive review
11/9/2014
Yummy! Served it over spaghetti squash. I also added the jalapeño directly to the dish instead of using it as garnish.
Most helpful critical review
7/18/2015
It turned out pretty good, I used fresh okra. I felt it to be a little bland even after putting the jalepeno in the pot so I added some curry and that jazzed it up.
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11/9/2014
Yummy! Served it over spaghetti squash. I also added the jalapeño directly to the dish instead of using it as garnish.
10/21/2015
Beautiful recipe. I make this as well for my Egyptian husband and almost exactly how you do but I fry minced onion, garlic in ghee till golden and add my ground coriander to the fried mix then ...
5/3/2016
I like this recipe, it is very similar to a dish my Armenian friend makes, which he calls Cordish (spelling). This recipe is a little bland for my taste as described here, but pleases the crowd...
3/26/2016
I will be making this one frequently. It's a very adaptable recipe. If beef is pricey, you can use ground beef or other protein, or skip it all together. Can be made pretty quickly and eaten...
2/16/2013
We enjoyed this recipe. Very nice flavor. We used chopped tomatoes instead of tomato sauce and water buffalo meat instead of beef.
4/14/2016
Omitted coriander due to personal preference. My husband loved it and I liked it. Will add to recipe box and make again in the future
7/18/2015
It turned out pretty good, I used fresh okra. I felt it to be a little bland even after putting the jalepeno in the pot so I added some curry and that jazzed it up.