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Balochi Khaddi Kabab — کھڈی کباب

🍽️ Balochi ⏱️ Prep: 40 mins 🔥 Cook: 2 hrs 🍲 Serves: 6

A grand Baloch tribal dish: a whole lamb belly stuffed with spiced rice and slow-cooked in a pit or on low coals until the meat is meltingly soft and the rice has soaked up all the juices.

Ingredients

  • 1 whole lamb belly or large mutton pieces (about 2 kg)
  • 4 cups rice, soaked
  • 3 onions, sliced
  • 1 cup oil or ghee
  • 2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
  • Whole spices (cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, black pepper)
  • Salt to taste

Method

  1. Rub the meat with salt and ginger-garlic paste and rest for an hour.
  2. Cook the soaked rice until half done with whole spices, then drain.
  3. Loosely stuff the meat with the par-cooked rice and secure it.
  4. Cook very slowly over low coals (or in a covered pot on the lowest heat) for about two hours until tender.
  5. Rest, open carefully and serve the meat with the fragrant rice.