#14 Bahrain
We made just two dishes for Bahrain night, but they were both substantial and complicated:
Fish Matchboos: the recipe called for hanmmour fish, which we think is a kind of grouper, but we couldn’t find one in Seattle in January, so we went with a trout.
Aloo Al Basheer: this dish is based on a long-standing hole-in-the-wall restaurant that was opened in the 1960’s by a Pakistani immigrant. So, technically, it’s maybe a Pakistani dish, but for a country that is 53% foreign-born, that maybe makes sense? Plus, the Bahraini internet raved about this dish.
Mr. (or Ms.) Trout
presenting fish machboos
mashing potatoes for the aloo
aloo
We couldn’t get them to stay as patties when we fried them, so we found keeping them in a ball shape worked better.
the complete plate for Bahrain n
ight!
