Mahshie (stuffed vegetable)

Vegetables play a huge part in Middle Eastern diet, because vegetables are available, affordable, healthy, and full of vitamins and nutritious. In the Middle East countries they take vegetable to the next level. So instead of boiling the vegetables, grilling them, or sauté them to be served as a side dish. In the Middle East the vegetable will be served as the main course or dish. That will happen when they take any type vegetable and incorporate with some rice and meat. Like this dish called Mahshie. Mahshie is mixture of a whole vegetable that is cored from the inside of it and stuffed with a mixture of rice, ground meat, tomato paste, herbs and spices. The main vegetables that are being used for this dish are Mexican squash, Japanese eggplant, sweet peppers, cabbage leaves and grape leaves. Mahshie is very filling and large in amount dish, that’s why sometimes, requires more than one-person to work on it. Mahshie is popular meal In the Middle East because it is a very healthy and well balanced. Mahshie has a higher amount of vitamins from the vegetables and equal amount of protein and starch from the rice and the meat. Mahshie is one of my favorite dishes it could be very hard to make and prepare but it is worth the efforts.