World Flavors Cookbook

Shish Barak

Name: Shish Barak
Cook time: 30 min
Cuisine: Syria
Ingredients: Handmade dough pockets filled with spiced ground lamb Yogurt sauce: yogurt, cornstarch, garlic, dried mint Butter for frying garlic

Tender meat-filled dumplings simmered in a warm, garlic-infused yogurt sauce.

Cuisine: Syria

Ingredients

Handmade dough pockets filled with spiced ground lamb Yogurt sauce: yogurt, cornstarch, garlic, dried mint Butter for frying garlic

Instructions

Prepare small meat dumplings. Briefly bake or fry them to set. Whisk yogurt with cornstarch and simmer gently until thickened. Add the dumplings to the yogurt. Prepare a "tasha" by frying garlic and mint in butter, then pour over the yogurt. Serve hot, often with rice.