Bowl of lamb pieces in white yogurt sauce with vermicelli rice nearby.

Shakriya

Syria · Middle East and North Africa

Short description
This lamb-and-yogurt stew depends on a smooth tangy sauce that does not split.
Ingredients
Lamb, plain yogurt, rice, vermicelli, onion, egg or starch for stabilizing yogurt, cardamom, bay leaf, butter or ghee, salt, and black pepper.
Cultural note
It is associated with family meals where rice catches the warm yogurt sauce.
Common misconception
It is not mansaf; the yogurt is cooked into a smooth sauce without dried jameed.

image credit

MyPlate gov Cultural Food (20241025-USDA-FNS-UNK-0047).jpg

creator:
USDAgov
license:
Public domain
modified:
Copied from Wikimedia Commons, cropped to remove a non-dish MyPlate mark from the bottom-right corner, resized to 1200x900, stripped of metadata, and re-encoded as a local JPEG for Gochizu review; no dish content edits.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.