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Kaddo Bourani

Name: Kaddo Bourani
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Afghanistan
Ingredients: 500g Pumpkin; 3 tbsp Sugar; 3 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 200g Plain yogurt; 2 cloves Garlic; 200g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1 tsp Dried mint; 1 tsp Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Sweet braised pumpkin topped with garlic yogurt and meat sauce — a sweet-savory Afghan dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kaddo bourani is an Afghan dish of pumpkin baked or braised sweet with sugar and topped with garlic yogurt and tomato meat sauce. The combination of the pumpkin's sweetness, the yogurt's tang, and the savory meat is distinctive, and it's eaten with naan as a starter or side.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Kabul home in autumn, white yogurt and red sauce are spooned over orange pumpkin, and a beautiful three-colored dish is set on the table.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Pumpkin 500g
Sugar 3 tbsp
Vegetable Oil 3 tbsp
Plain yogurt 200g
Garlic 2 cloves
Ground Beef 200g
Onion 1
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Dried mint 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel the pumpkin and cut into large pieces.
Heat oil in a frying pan and brown the pumpkin on both sides.
Add the sugar and 100ml water, cover, and simmer on low for 15 minutes until tender.
Fry the ground beef and onion and cook down with the tomato paste, turmeric, salt, and 100ml water to make a meat sauce.
Mix the yogurt with grated garlic and salt.
Spread the yogurt on a plate, top with the pumpkin, spoon over the meat sauce, and sprinkle with dried mint.

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