Lamb shawarma rice bowl

Name: Lamb shawarma rice bowl
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 700 g Lamb leg steak, sliced 5 mm thin; 45 ml Olive oil; 30 ml Lemon juice; 4 Garlic cloves, grated; 1 tbsp Baharat; 1 tsp Ground cumin; 1 tsp Ground coriander; 1.5 tsp Fine sea salt; 300 g Long grain rice, rinsed; 50 g Vermicelli noodles, broken; 30 g Butter or ghee; 3 Tomatoes, diced; 1 Cucumber, diced; 0.5 Red onion, thinly sliced; 1 tsp Sumac; 200 ml Tahini sauce; 120 g Pickled turnips, to serve

A weeknight bowl built from the same spices as the platter but ready in under an hour: quick-seared lamb strips over vermicelli rice, with a sharp tomato salad, pickles and a heavy pour of tahini.

50 min totalmediumeasy

Instructions

1
Toss the sliced lamb with the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, baharat, cumin, coriander and salt. Leave to marinate while you cook the rice — 25 minutes is enough for thin slices.
2
Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat and fry the broken vermicelli, stirring constantly, until it is an even hazelnut brown. It goes from golden to burnt in seconds.
3
Add the rinsed rice, stir for a minute to coat, then pour in 550 ml boiling salted water. Cover, drop the heat to low and cook 12 minutes.
4
Take the pan off the heat and leave covered for 10 minutes, then fluff with a fork.
5
Meanwhile toss the tomato, cucumber, red onion and sumac with a little olive oil, lemon and salt.
6
Heat a heavy skillet until smoking. Sear the lamb in two batches, 2 minutes per batch, tossing once — thin lamb overcooks in seconds.
7
Build the bowls: rice, lamb and its pan juices, salad, pickled turnips, and a generous spoon of tahini over everything.
8
Finish with an extra pinch of sumac and serve hot.

Notes

Leftover roast lamb works perfectly here — skip the marinade and just crisp the shredded meat in a hot pan with the spices and a splash of oil. The toasted vermicelli step is small but it is what makes the rice taste like a restaurant rather than a side.

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