Stuffed (Ma’ashi)

Today’s recipe is a wide-spread phenomena across cultures: stuffing vegetables. I guess you can only make so much vegetable soup before you need something else to do with all your vegetables.

The term “mashi” in Arabic means stuffed. In Egypt, anything that can be cleaned out to have an empty hole is game for stuffing. Eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, peppers, pigeon, grape leaf, and cabbage leaf are all popular items to be stuffed with the traditional meat and rice mix.