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Hoda Baroudi’s sayadieh with tahini

The full recipe behind Hoda Baroudi's sayadieh with tahini.
Hoda Baroudi’s sayadieh with tahini

Hoda Baroudi's sayadieh with tahini. (Credit: João Sousa)

  • Preparation 60 min

    Cooking time 80 min

  • Portions

    8 people

  • Difficulty

    Medium

Ingredients
  • For the sayadieh with tahini
  • 4 whole grouper fillets, about 1 kg each
  • 600g shrimp
  • 3 tablespoons cumin
  • 1 tablespoon saffron
  • 2 tablespoons turmeric
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • About 5 cardamom pods
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 2 thinly sliced fennel bulbs
  • 5 thinly sliced kumquats
  • 7 medium white onions
  • 3 cups basmati rice
  • For the tahini sauce:
  • 4 onions, diced
  • Juice of 3 kg of citrus (Seville oranges, mawardi, mandarins, clementines, etc.)
  • ½ kilo tahini
  • Saffron
  • 1 cauliflower
  • Pine nuts
All ingredients
Preparation Sayadieh with tahini
For the sayadieh broth:Peel the onions, slice them, then sauté in oil until deeply golden.Add water and bring to a boil.Strain and set aside the cooking liquid.Fry the grouper heads and bones in olive oil.Add the spices and fry everything for 10 minutes before pouring in the reserved onion cooking water.Boil for one hour, then strain and set aside this broth.This broth will be used to cook the rice.For the sayadieh rice:Chop an onion and fry it in olive oil.Add the rice and cover with the broth you have prepared and reserved.Let cook for 20 minutes, adding spices to taste.For the grouper fillets:Prepare them en papillote, with kumquat, fennel (reserve some kumquats and a little sliced fennel for the shrimp), olive oil and pepper.Bake for 15 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.Peel the shrimp and sauté them lightly in olive oil with fennel and...
Sayadieh with tahini
  • Preparation 60 min

    Cooking time 80 min

  • Portions

    8 people

  • Difficulty

    Medium

Ingredients
  • For the sayadieh with tahini
  • 4 whole grouper fillets, about 1 kg each
  • 600g shrimp
  • 3 tablespoons cumin
  • 1 tablespoon saffron
  • 2 tablespoons turmeric
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • About 5 cardamom pods
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 2 thinly sliced fennel bulbs
  • 5 thinly sliced kumquats
  • 7 medium white onions
  • 3 cups basmati rice
  • For the tahini sauce:
  • 4 onions, diced
  • Juice of 3 kg of citrus (Seville oranges, mawardi, mandarins, clementines, etc.)
  • ½ kilo tahini
  • Saffron
  • 1 cauliflower
  • Pine nuts
All ingredients
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Sayadieh with tahini

One of Hoda's favorite dishes is Arnabiyeh sauce, to which she adds Bou Sfeir orange juice and various citrus fruits, all picked, of course, from her family's garden in Saïda. Over the years, she's come to serve it with siyadieh, adding a pinch of saffron for extra flavor.

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