Recipe: Yummy Okra and Lamb : Bamia Stew

Okra and Lamb : Bamia Stew. Okra with lamb recipe is the best to serve as a dinner for the Emarati's family. Buy us a cup of coffee. Thank you all so much for watching our recipe videos and supporting our channel.

This dish is popular throughout the Middle East and can be prepared with lamb or beef. Re-cover the dish and return it to the oven. Add stock or water if the mixture seems too dry. You can have Okra and Lamb : Bamia Stew using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Okra and Lamb : Bamia Stew

1. You need 500 g of fresh okra, ends trimmed.
2. You need 500 g of lamb, or beef diced.
3. It's 1 1/2 cups of white rice.
4. Prepare 1 cup of vegetable oil.
5. You need 1 of large onion, chopped.
6. It's 1 clove of garlic, chopped.
7. Prepare 4 of tomatoes, peeled and cubed.
8. You need of juice of 1 lemon.
9. Prepare 1 tablespoon of tomato paste, diluted in 1 cup of water.
10. It's 1 teaspoon of dried mint.
11. It's 1/2 teaspoon of ground coriander.
12. It's 2 of beef broth cubes, diluted in 2 cups of water.
13. You need of fresh ground pepper to taste.
14. It's of salt to taste.

Bamia stew with lamb or beef cubes and okra in a tomato sauce base. This recipe for bamia is very simple. You can make it vegetarian by omitting the meat. The sauce should thicken as it cooks.

Okra and Lamb : Bamia Stew step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
2. In a large saucepan, fry the okra with ½ cup vegetable oil until it becomes tender. Remove and keep aside..
3. Fry the onions, in a deep pan, with ½ cup of vegetable oil until they become soft. Then add in the garlic, meat and coriander. Season with salt, pepper and mint. Stir until the meat begins to brown..
4. Add in the tomato paste, cubed tomatoes, and 1/2 cup of meat broth. Mix well and let it simmer over low heat until the liquid is absorbed..
5. Transfer the meat mixture to an oiled circular casserole. Then distribute the okra evenly on top of it..
6. Pour the remaining meat broth and lemon juice over the stew. Cover the casserole with either a lid or foil and bake in the oven for 45 minutes. Check from time to time and add in water if the mixture is dry..
7. Serve hot with white rice on the side..

Lamb and okra are simmered in a fragrant, and spicy tomato-based broth. It's a Yemeni version of bamieh or okra stew. Add the lamb, cinnamon, cumin, coriander, and garlic paste. Once meat is tender, add the Okra or bamia and carry on cooking until the Okra is tender and cooked. Always add the Okra at the last few minutes because Okra does not take.