Lebanese Hushwee Rice – The Lemon Bowl®

An easy one-pan meal, Lebanese Hushwee Rice is a beef and rice mixture and is a Lebanese staple made with cinnamon, toasted pine nuts, and rice pilaf cooked in clarified butter. Naturally gluten-free, this is the ultimate comfort food! 

One of my go-to’s on a busy weeknight, this Lebanese Hushwee Rice recipe is simply a mashup of two of my most popular recipes: hashweh beef and rice pilaf. This easy, 30-minute dinner recipe is a standard in Middle-Eastern households. A blend of warm spices paired with protein and rice makes for a delicious and filling meal that’ll please the whole family.

Ingredients

• For the rice pilaf: white rice, clarified butter, vermicelli, salt and pepper.
• For the hashweh: clarified butter, onion, ground sirloin, all purpose Lebanese spice blend, and pine nuts.

How to Make Lebanese Hushwee Rice

Start your Lebanese Hushwee Rice by making your hashweh beef. Melt your clarified butter before adding your onion and browning your ground sirloin.

Season with the Lebanese all purpose spice, and add in the toasted pine nuts before removing from heat and setting aside.

Next, rinse your rice using a colander or strainer. You want to rinse until the water runs clear.

Then in the same pan as you cooked your meat, add more clarified butter and brown your vermicelli for the pilaf.

Add your rinsed rice and toast for an additional couple minutes before adding water and seasoning with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and cover, cooking for around 15 minutes until rice is fully cooked.

When the rice pilaf is done, fluff with a fork before stirring in the hashweh beef that you finished beforehand.

Garnish with fresh parsley, and serve with pita bread or with a dollop of plain yogurt, and enjoy your Lebanese Hushwee Rice!

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Lebanese Hushwee Rice

An easy one-pan meal, Lebanese Hushwee Rice is a beef and rice mixture and is a Lebanese staple made with cinnamon, toasted pine nuts, and rice pilaf cooked in clarified butter. Naturally gluten-free, this is the ultimate comfort food! 

PREP: 10 mins

COOK: 25 mins

TOTAL: 35 mins

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Servings: 6

Lebanese Rice Pilaf with Vermicelli

Lebanese Rice Pilaf with Vermicelli

• Place the rice in a fine-mesh strainer and rinse thoroughly using your fingers to rub off as much starch as possible. You’ll know the rice is properly rinsed when the water comes out clear from the bottom. Set aside.

• In a large, deep pan heat the butter over medium heat until melted. Add the broken vermicelli pasta and brown, stirring frequently, until it is golden/dark brown. Be careful to not let burn – don’t walk away from the pan. This takes about 4-5 minutes.

• Add rinsed rice to the pan and stir into the vermicelli and butter. Toast the rice for 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently.

• Carefully pour boiling water into the pan and stir once. Add salt and pepper then stir again. Bring to a boil, stir once, then reduce heat to low and cover with a lid. Cook for 15 minutes. Remove pan from the heat and fluff rice with a fork before sprinkling with fresh parsley to serve.

Lebanese Hashweh – Ground Beef with Pine Nuts

• In a deep pan, melt butter over medium high heat then add the minced onion. Sautee until translucent, 4-5 minutes.

• Add ground sirloin and spices. Cook 8-10 minutes or until meat is browned, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon to break up meat. Check for seasoning and add salt and pepper to taste. Stir in toasted pine nuts and set aside.

Combine the Hashweh and the Lebanese Rice Pilaf

To toast pine nuts simply spread in an even layer on a baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for 5-7 minutes or until golden brown.
If you don’t wish to make your own clarified butter (also known as “ghee”), you can find it online or in most health stores.
For lasting freshness, store pine nuts in the freezer to keep them fresher, longer.

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Serving: 1cupCalories: 508kcalCarbohydrates: 58gProtein: 26gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 83mgSodium: 681mgPotassium: 456mgFiber: 3gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 11IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 79mgIron: 3mg