Samak Mamqūr (Fish in Vinegar and Murrī)

Origin: Baghdad, Iraq

Source: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī, 1226

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Cut the fish into middling pieces, wash, color with saffron, and fry in sesame oil (shīraj).
  2. Scatter over it finely pounded cloves (aẓfār al-ṭīb).
  3. Place it in vinegar and murrī, using twice as much murrī as vinegar.

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