Let's cook together! Cooking Class - Arabic dish Makloubeh

**just added the ingredients below.

Please join me and my friend cooking for a dinner with friends on a Sunday. Get ready and cook along with us. You can ask questions as we go. I think this is an amazing way to lear how to cook or just learn a new dish.

Makloubeh is an Arabic dish of beef, eggplant and rice full of warm spices and comforting flavors. We also want to make a salad on the side. This dish is sooo delicious that I am salivating as I'm typing this... :D
By the way, I took the picture from the internet just for the general idea of what it looks like.

I will post the list of ingredients and items you will need later. We will chat while we talk and my dear friend Sally will be giving you some overview of different foods and spices.
This will be an amazing evening!

Ingredients:

• 4 large eggplants
• 1/2 white onion (medium size)
• 3/4 cup pine nuts
• 2 lbs ground beef
• 2 cups rice (preferably 1 cup long and 1 cup short)
• 7-spice
• Salt
• Black pepper
• 4 cup canola/vegetable oil (for frying the eggplants and for cooking)
• 1 tbsp Dried mint
• Garlic (3-4 cloves)
• 1 lbs Cucumber
• 16 oz Plain yogurt

Material/equipment:

• deep fry pot
• Cooking pot with lid (should be about 4 inches deep at least)
• Tray to flip the rice pot in it (should be wider than the cooking pot
• Bowl for cucumber/yogurt
• Cutting board
• Big round plate
• Stove