So old traditional food.

Hi to All,

I know it looks Strange !

It is one of the most oldest Arabic food. It called Stuffed zucchini ( Mahashe ) in Arabic Language.

What are Mahashe?? As we see in the plate, a pieces of Eggplants, potatoes, Bell Peppers and Upreti. They are all stuffed with a tasty fresh ingredients, the fresh ingredients will be cooked inside the pieces while cooked processing. The ingredients combined from:

1.Chopped Meat. 2. Chopped Italian Parsley. 3. Rice. 4. Spices, and 5. Garlic.

Big Main Plate.of Mahashe, And Two Tomato Soup Bowls.

This ( Mahashe ) Stuffed zucchini. Is

A home made not in A restaurant. It is hardly to find this food in any Arabic restaurants. Even Arabic restaurants dont cook this food.The food you are seeing were cooked in my house. It is can be taken as a lunch or dinner, lunch is more common.

This is me in my house kitchen eating Mahashe.

You can either eat by hands or you can use a fork and spoon for the Tomato soup.

In Arabic traditions, we prefer to eat our houses food rather than restaurants.

To me, I like to eat both from restaurants and our houses.

What do you think about the taste of Mahashe?

Stuffed zucchini.

Thanks for watching and reading. .

Osama Zaina

Jordan.

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Hello @OSAMA_1 ,

Thank you for sharing these photos and the steps of preparation of the stuffed zucchini, it looks very delicious! Are there any variations according to the region where it is prepared?

I guess this is a food more common to the region of Jordan and Egypt, am I right? As a person who grew up in Morocco, I’ve never seen anything like this there.

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Estimado @OSAMA_1 , me hiciste recordar a la comida de mi mamá, ella también preparaba esta comida, en casa le llamábamos “Angolita rellenos”, el interior lleva lo mismo como tu indicas al “zapallitos relleno”. La angola o zucchini es similar al zapallito verde.

Lo que comentas sobre que no se este tipo de comida en los restaurantes, es verdad, en mi caso cuando visito Buenos Aires trato de comer comida árabe y en general estos platos no existen en las cartas, solo lo puedes comer en tu casa. Lo que si se encuentra es lo que en mi casa llamamos niños envueltos, que es lo mismo el relleno, pero envueltos con hojas de parra o con las hojas de repollo.

En mi caso, me gusta mas el zapallitos para rellenar con el arroz con carne o el pimiento, los sabores son mas definidos.

Saludos Farid, desde la Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

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Yes @BorrisS

Thanks so much you dropped a comment here.

Am so happy to answer you. As a middle East where Arabic countries’ border stuck, there are many differences

about meals ! For example , the gulf countries, have their own specific meals as a kind of food that cooked in their houses. We in the center of middle East ( Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon ) know the gulf countries meals, but we don’t do them in our houses, we can try them in a restaurant. In Egypt also little similar to us, The Arabic countries located in North Part of Africa, totally different from us ( Syria, Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon ) and gulf countries.

The meal I’ve posted is specialist first cook processing to us, the four countries mentioned above.

That’s doesn’t mean people live in Gulf countries don’t know what we eat. And vice versa.

In another words, each Arabic meals have the origin where come from, and which country first cooked it. In addition, all meals are available in restaurants if you know the name of the meal, you can try it.

Only little not exist in restaurants like the one I’ve posted.

It’s in our houses only.

So happy to contact you.

Sorry my answer delay.

Very Respectfully

Osama Zaina

Jordan.

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Yes @FaridTDF

Sir. Well said.

The food you and I posted here in Connect , is only common in Syria, Palestine, Jordan , and Lebanon. As the first processing cooked in the Arabic region.

In Egypt little different, and other Arabic countries also little different like Gulf countries and those located in the North part of Africa.

So happy to reply to you.

Very Respectfully :tulip:

Osama Zaina.

Jordan.

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Hey @OSAMA_ very interesting your post about old food ,for me old always gold

So here my old food from Indonesia

lotek = salad steamed with peanut spicy sauce with ketcup

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Okay @Nyainurjanah looks very special plate. I am feeling so hungry from the description of the ingredients you mentioned. Humhum

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Hi @OSAMA_1 ,

Mahashe looks delicious for lunch !

Home made food is always more special; sometimes it´s difficult to taste the same flavour at restaurants.

Greetings from the South of Spain,

Alejandra.

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Thank you for all these details @OSAMA_1 .

Indeed there is a huge difference in the food in the Arabe world, but still all very tasty and delicious!

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Hi

@BorrisS

@AlejandraMaria

@FaridTDF

I will post another incredible House meal later, I will mention you to take a look .

Very Respectfully :pray:

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