Tannūriyya (Tandoor Meat-and-Wheat Pot)
Origin: Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī, 1226
Ingredients
- raṭl meat
- raṭl wheat
- cinnamon
- dry coriander
- dill
- salt
- cumin
- bread
Instructions
- Cut 5 raṭls of meat (best camel or calf) into medium pieces, wash, and put in a pot with covering water, a little salt, and a cinnamon stick.
- Boil, skim the froth, and add dry coriander.
- Add 2 raṭls of pounded, picked, hulled, washed wheat and stalks of dill.
- Adjust salt, cover the pot, and fill with water leaving four fingers below the rim.
- Set in the tannūr until morning.
- Lift out, lay a bread sop (tharīda) underneath, dust with finely ground cumin and cinnamon, and serve.