Baṣaliyya (Onion-Style Meat)

Ingredients

• fatty meat
• fresh tail fat
• salt
• green coriander leaves
• cinnamon stick
• fresh white onion
• spice mix
• saffron
• dirhams lime juice or vinegar

Instructions

1. Render fresh tail fat, discard cracklings; add lightly-sliced fatty meat and stir until colored.
2. Cover with water, add a little salt, green coriander and cinnamon stick; boil and skim.
3. When reduced, add peeled crosswise-cut white onion (about half the meat's weight), washed in salted water.
4. Season with cumin, coriander, pepper, mastic and cinnamon finely pounded; optionally color with saffron.
5. For a sour version add ~10 dirhams lime juice or vinegar; settle over the fire, wipe sides and take up.