Khuḍayriyya (Green Fava-Bean Meat)

Ingredients

• fatty meat
• tail fat
• dirham salt
• dried coriander
• cinnamon sticks
• green coriander leaves
• green fava beans (bāqilā)
• lean red meat
• spice mix
• eggs
• rosewater

Instructions

1. Render tail fat, discard cracklings, sweat small-cut fatty meat with a dirham salt and coriander until colored.
2. Cover with water, add thin cinnamon sticks and green coriander, boil and skim.
3. Peel, scald, wash and drain the green fava beans.
4. Add small kubab of pounded lean meat, then the fava beans; stir.
5. When cooked, add cumin, pepper, ginger and mastic; arrange whole eggs on top, dust with cinnamon, sprinkle rosewater, settle and take up.