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Chef Zein Mohamad Rahhal
My Name is Zein ,i am from lebanon and i have been traveling all over the world for more than 20 years.
I CAN COOK,INDIAN NORTH INDIAN ,SOME CHINESE INDONESIAN DISHES,AND MASTER MIND IN LEBANESE CUISINE,AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL CUISINE.
i have been to the USA and Most of the european Countries,so full of excellent experience,can speak English,German,Bahasa Malaysia,Russian as well as arabic my mother language.
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Chicken and rice
(Rez bel Jaj)
Ingredients:
- 2 fresh chickens
- 600 grams of rice (Rinsed)
- 4000 grams of water (Boiling)
- 120 grams of butter
- 25 grams of salt
Step by Step:
- Clean the chickens very well.
- Melt the butter in the cooking pan.
- Fry the chickens with the melted butter after salting both.
- When the chicken meat gets the light brown color add the rest of the salt and water.
- Boil the chickens until well done.
- Take out the chickens and put them aside.
- Add the rice to the chicken water ingredients.
- Minimize the flame to low until the rice is cooked.
- Empty the rice into the serving bowl and cover with the cooked chickens.
- Serve with yoghourt.
Stuffed Cabbage
(Malfof mehshi)
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 kilo cabbage leaves
- 1/4 kilo grined lamb meat
- 3/4 cup of rice
- 1/2 cup of cooked chick peas
- 1/2 cup of cooking fat
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 15 mint leaves
- Juice of 2 lemons
- 1 teaspoon of salt or to taste
- 1 teaspoon of sweet pepper
- 1 teaspoon of cinamon
- pinch of hot pepper
Step by Step:
- Boil the cabbage leaves until withered
- Seperate the veins using a knife and cut into midium pieces.
- Rinse the rice very well
- Add the grined lamb meat,cooking fat,cooked Chick peas,salt,sweet pepper,cinamon,hot pepper and mix thoroughly.
- Spread the cabbage leaves veins at the bottom of the cooking pan.
- Skin the garlic and put half of the quantity on top of the veins.
- Stuff the Cabbage leaves with the Stuffing mixture as if you were folding an envelope.
- Put them in a circular pattern in the cooking pan.
- Put the rest of the Garlic on top.
- Drown with Boiled water.
- Cover with a turned plate (Upside down)
- Cook over a high flame for 3 minutes.
- Reduce the flame and cook until it has been cooked half way.
- Clean the Mint leaves , mince them with the lemmon juice ,salt and pour them over the cabbage leaves. and put back the turned over plate.
- Keep for 30 minutes until well cooked.
- Change the plate with the serving dish and flip over the cooking pan over.
- Remove the cabbage veins.
- Serve hot.
Tomatoes and Meat
(Yakhanet al bandorah)
Ingredients:
- 2500 gram of tomatoes (Peeled,sliced and emptied of seeds)
- 500 grams of meat (Chopped)
- 180 grams of butter
- 40 grams of pine nuts
- 15 grams of garlic (Finely chopped)
- 100 grams of onions (Finely chopped)
- 25 grams of salt
- 1.5 grams of white, black pepper
Step by Step:
- Melt the butter in the cooking pan.
- Fry the meat until it gets a red color.
- Add the pine nuts and mix until they get a light brown color.
- Add the chopped tomatoes, salt and pepper.
- Cook under a meduim flame until boil.
- Cook for 20 minutes until well cooked.
- Serve with hot with Rice.
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CHIKEN KEBABA
Ingredients:
- 3 whole chicken breasts, boned
- 12 small mushrooms
- 8 very small tomatoes, halved
- 6 small onions, halved
Marinade (1):
- 1/3 cup of olive oil
- 3 tablespoons of lemmon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1/8 teaspoon of pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon of cumin
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
Marinade (2):
- 1 tablespoon of yoghurt
- 1 teaspoon of lemmon juice
- 1 teaspoon of viniger
- 1/8 teaspoon of cardamon
- 1/8 teaspoon of dry mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon of curry
- 1/4 teaspoon of tumeric
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
Step by Step:
- Prepare one of the marinades, by combining the ingredients listed.
- Cut the chicken to cubes and coat in the marinade, let stand for 30 minutes.
- Thread the chicken onto skewers alternatively with onions, tomatoes, and mushrooms.
- Broil over charcoal or under the broiler for about 10 minutes, turning once and brushing with the marinade.
- Serve hot and with rice.
Eggplant and rice
(Makloobet betenjan)
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 kilo of eggplant
- 1/4 kilo meat
- 1 1/2 cup of rice (rinsed)
- 1/2 cup of pine nuts
- 1 1/2 cup of cooking fat
- 1/2 cup of almond nuts
Step by Step:
- Rinse the rice and drawn it in hot water with 1/2 cup of salt
- Peel the eggplants (Partially) and cut into pieces (1cm thin)
- Put them in water and salt for half an hour.
- Cut the meat into small pieces (thin) and heat 1 cup of the cooking fat.
- Fry the meat until it gets a golden color (Fried).
- Drawn the meat with water and some salt and cover.
- Cook under low fire
- Fry the eggplants until it gets a golden color and then put it aside.
- Boil the almod nuts, peel them and split them into two.
- Fry the almond nuts with the remaining cooking fat until it gets a golden color.
- Take the fried almon nuts out into a plate and fry the pine nuts until golden color.
- In the cooking pan place the fried eggplants at the bottom equally to cover the bottom surface.
- Rinse the rice very well without touching it and put it over the eggplants.
- Add 1/2 teaspoon of pepper,cinamon.
- Add 2 cups of meat stock and then drown with boiled water.
- Add salt to taste.
- cover the pan with an eating plate (Upside down)
- Cook under high fire for 3 minutes
- Decrease the cooking fire to low until the rice is well done.
- Take the cooking pan and rap it with a thick piece of fabric for 10 minutes.
- Take the eating plate off the pan and replace it with the serving plate.
- Push hard and turn all the pan over to the serving plate.(The rice should got on to the serving plate)
- Spread the fried almon and pine nuts over equaly.
- Serve hot with yogurt
(Dawood Basha)Tomato sauce with meat balls
Ingredients:
- 1 kilo of minced meat
- 8 onions (chopped)
- 2 kilos of tomato (peeld and chopped)
- 1/2 cup of fried pine nuts
- 2 teaspoons of flour
- 1 cup of cooking fat
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- 1 cup of water
Step by Step:
- Fry 7 chopped onions and put them aside.
- Mix the meat, pepper and the remaining (1) chopped onion very well.
- Add the flour and mix well.
- Create meat balls and fry using the cooking fat.
- Take out the fried meat balls and put them in a cooking pan
- Add the pine nuts and fried onions
- Add the tomatoes, salt and pepper
- Add 1 cup of water
- cover the pan and Cook under low fire until the tomatoes turn to liquid.
- Serve hot with rice and garnish with some mint leaves.
LEBANESE SALAD FATOUCH
| large romaine lettuce, strips | |
| 3 | medium firm ripe tomatoes (coarsely diced) |
| 1/3 | cup parsley (coarsely chopped) |
| 1 | small carrot (coarsely diced) (optional) |
| 1/4 | cup green onions (coarsely chopped) |
| 1/4 | cup mint (finely chopped) |
| 1/4 | cup olive oil |
| 1/4 | cup lemon juice (more or less to taste) |
| 1/2 | teaspoon salt (more or less to taste) |
| 1/4 | teaspoon pepper |
| 3 | cloves garlic, finely chopped |
| 1 | toasted pita bread (broken into small pieces) or crouton (make a good substitution)
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4 servings
10 minutes 10 mins prep
FALAFEL WITH CHEF ZEIN SPECIAL RECIEPE
Kabseh (Saudia Arabia)
Ingredients
- 1 large chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons of oil
- 2 tomatos riped one
- 800 grams of cubed lamb
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- water
- 4 teaspoons of Kabseh spices
[ 1 teaspoon of pepper
1 teaspoon of cumin
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
4 crushed cardomon seeds] - 2 tablespoons of tomato paste
- 1 hot green pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups of rinsed rice
Sauce
- 1 tablespoon of oil
- 1/2 small onion, chopped
- 1 large tomato, peeled
- salt to taste
- Kabseh spices to taste
- 1 small hot pepper, minced
Step By Step
- Saute the onion in the oil until softened.
- Toward the end of this step, toss in the tomatos and cook for another minute.
- Add the meat, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and brown on all sides.
- Pour on the water to cover.
- Stir in the Kabseh spices, tomato paste, hot pepper, and the 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- Bring to boil. Cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
- Measure the liquid in the pan, adding more water, if necessary, to make 2 1/2 cups.
- Taste the broth and adjust the seasoning.
- Return the broth to the pan containing the meat.
- Add the rice, and bring to the boil.
- Cover and simmer until the rice is done, about 25 minutes.
- While the rice is cooking, prepare the hot sauce.
- Saute the onion in the oil until softened.
- Stir in the remaining ingredients and simmer for 5 - 10 minutes.
- Taste and adjust seasoning.

