Roasted Potato Stuffed with Meat

Perfectly roasted, tender, that is stuffed with meat. Paired with white rice, salad and yogurt with cucumbers, this is the ultimate comfort meal. It’s gluten free too!

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I hesitated a lot before posting this this recipe here on the blog. I always felt it’s heavy, and not so much healthy. However, it’s a beloved dish in the Arabic cuisine, that YOU readers love a lot. And that’s because I always ate at mom’s. And I finally cooked it myself, my perspective has completely changed! I loved it. It’s the ultimate com fort meal, and you can twist some things to make it healthier.

But this has started last year . Whenever my mom cooked it, I always skipped it, and ask mom if she can cook extra dish or I would just eat some leftovers, maybe some Mloukhyia (Jew’s mallow soup). and of course there were times, that I just simply had to eat it. So, last year, when I was in Jordan for a vacation, my mom made it for lunch, And she tried to convinced me to eat it. And I said to myself , I should grow up and eat it it like everyone else. and what actually happened , is I loved it. After so many years. I loved it 🙂

It’s a rich dish. First we peel the potato, the core it, and fill it with sauteed ground meat with onion and spices ( 7 spices is the most popular mix, I’ve link to it just before the recipe down, also I mentioned in the recipes notes , what’s the substitute). Then we fry it in a pan (shallow frying) to get a nice crunch and flavor. Then we roast it the oven  with chicken stock along with the potato, until it’s tender enough, but holding it’s shape.

It takes a long time to prepare, but it’s totally worth it. And it does feed a crowd, so it’s a perfect for gathering and potlucks. Or you can save yourself some delicious leftovers.

This meal has carbs, protein , and fats too. We usually have it with a side of yogurt and cucumber salad, and sometimes rice too.

There are other versions of this dish. Some families cook the potato with tomato sauce like my friend Sawsan, did. She is a food blogger, very talented, and have many recipes of Palestinian food on her blog. Look here how she cook it.

Roasted Potato

I’ve made few recipes here on the blog. Potato is usually used for appetizers in Arabic cuisine like batata harrah (spicy potato) or Mashed potato (mudammas potato) . Or we add it to roasted chicken or baked meatballs with tahini sauce. But in this recipe, potato if the star in a main dish that will blow you away! And you will cook it over and over!

Why potato is good for you :

While potato has a bad reputation, it can be really healthy for you, the method of cooking affect very much the calorie and fat content. Also, it’s more important for the diabetic persons to be aware of its high glycemix index value, and how many carbohydrate sit has. potato can be good for you:

• It’s high in potassium, and vitamin C. Also has good amounts of folate, iron, and fiber.
• It has many nutrients that are important for the body’s health, such as lutein that is good for eye’s health, and choline that reduce inflammation.
• If eaten on its own, baked, potato is considered low calorie food.

And I made delicious recipes with potatoes, check them here.

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Yield: 6

Roasted Potato Stuffed with Meat

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes

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Ingredients

• Potato 1 kg peeled and cored
• Ground meat 350 g, beef or lamb or a mix of both
• White rice
• Salt, black pepper, ground coriander, ground cinnamon, 7 spices*.
• onion 1 small minced
• Vegetable oil 4 Tb
• Chicken stock 150g

Instructions

1. In a big skillet, heat 2 Tb of vegetable oil on a medium heat,
2. Add minced onion, saute it until the color is translucent, then add meat and saute until all the red color go off .
3. Add spices, and mix well, then set aside.
4. While the meat is on the stove, peel the potato (optional, but you need to wash it thoroughly, if you want to keep the peel) core it with the vegetable peeler, but not too deep so it won't break
5. Then fill it with meat by a spoon or by your hands.
6. In the same pan, heat another 2 Tb of vegetable oil. Add potato and pan fry it, until you got a nice color.
7. Put the potato is a safe oven dish and pour chicken stock and potato core, for an hour at least. it depends on the potato size, and how much did you core it, and your oven dish too. So start checking after 45 minutes.
8. The potato needs to be tender, but hold its shape.
9. Serve it hot, with side of yogurt salad, or plain yogurt , and white rice.
10. Leftovers can keep good in the fridge up to 1 week, and freeze well too.

Notes

* or a mix or ground black pepper, cinnamon , cloves, cardamom , coriander, cumin, paprika

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

3

Serving Size:

1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g