Dīnāriyya (Dinar-Coin Meat)
Origin: Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī, 1226
Ingredients
- fatty meat
- tail fat
- dirham salt
- dried coriander
- cinnamon stick
- onion
- lean red meat
- carrots (jazar)
- boiled eggs
- spice mix
- dirhams aged murrī
- dirham cinnamon
Instructions
- Render tail fat, sweat small thin fatty meat, add a dirham salt and coriander; cover with water, cinnamon stick and green coriander; boil, skim and add peeled onion pieces.
- Pound lean meat with spices and shape into dinar-like discs; add.
- Add coin-cut pared carrots.
- Add coin-cut boiled eggs (optionally fried in sesame oil first).
- When cooked, season with mastic, pepper and cumin; sprinkle ~10 dirhams aged murrī with ~3 dirhams vinegar; dust with half a dirham cinnamon, settle and take up.