Qatari Tharid (bread & stew)

Recipe No.: G-45

Gulf120 minServes 6

Tharid is one of the oldest Arab dishes, and the Qatari version is thin bread soaked with a spicy meat and vegetable broth, served in winter and Ramadan. The merit of tharid over other foods is mentioned in the hadith, and it remains a fixture on the Qatari Ramadan table.

Ingredients for Qatari Tharid

• For the stew
• 1 kgbone-in lamb, cut up
• 2onions, chopped, and 4 cloves garlic
• 3tomatoes, chopped, and 2 tbsp tomato paste
• ¼ cupghee or oil
• 1 tbspbzar spice mix, 2 dried black limes (loomi), pierced, and 1 hot green chili
• 2potatoes, 2 carrots, 2 zucchini (large chunks), a piece of pumpkin and 1 eggplant
• 1.8 litreswater and salt
• For the tharid
• 5rounds of raqaq or thin tannour bread, torn into pieces

Method

1. Brown the onion in ghee, add the lamb, garlic and bzar and stir 8 minutes.
2. Add the tomatoes, paste, loomi, chili, water and salt and simmer 1½ hours.
3. Add the potatoes, carrots and pumpkin, then after 10 minutes the zucchini and eggplant, and cook until tender.
4. Spread the torn bread in a wide deep dish and pour hot broth gradually until it soaks without disintegrating.
5. Arrange the meat and vegetables on top, spoon over some broth and serve at once.

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