Skip to content
Main course · Lebanese

Batata Mahshi (Potatoes Stuffed with Spiced Beef in Tomato Sauce)

75 min Serves 4 ~672 kcal/serving ~£7.90 (£1.98/serving) Dairy-freeGluten-freeKid-friendly

Dietary and allergen labels, nutrition and cost are worked out automatically from each recipe’s ingredients and are a guide only. Check the labels on what you buy yourself — especially for allergies or coeliac disease. More about recipe labels.

Add to my meal plan How meal planning works

Opens Equal House and puts it on the night you choose. No app yet? It’s free, and the recipe comes with you when you install it.

Ingredients

  • 8 medium potatoes
  • 4 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 1 onion
  • 400 g beef mince
  • 1 tsp ground allspice
  • 0.5 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 500 g passata
  • 1 tbsp tomato purée
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 15 g fresh flat-leaf parsley

Nutrition (per serving)

Calories
672 kcal
Protein
28.8 g
Carbohydrate
63.8 g
of which sugars
10.7 g
Fat
30.3 g
of which saturates
8.4 g
Fibre
10.6 g
Salt
0.33 g

Estimated from typical values for each ingredient — a guide, not a substitute for the label on what you actually buy.

Method

  1. 1

    Heat the oven to 200C (180C fan, gas 6). Peel the medium potatoes and cut a thin slice off one end so they stand up. Hollow each one out from the other end with a melon baller or teaspoon, leaving walls about 1cm thick. Toss with 3 tbsp sunflower oil and ½ tsp salt and roast for 20 minutes until starting to colour.

  2. 2

    Meanwhile, fry the chopped onion in the remaining oil over a medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the beef mince, allspice, cinnamon and 1 tsp salt and fry for 8 minutes, breaking it up, until browned and no pink remains.

  3. 3

    Fill the potatoes with the beef and stand them in a baking dish.

  4. 4

    Mix the passata with the tomato purée, crushed garlic, 200ml water and ½ tsp salt and pour around the potatoes.

  5. 5

    Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes, then uncover and bake for 10 minutes more until the potatoes are tender when pierced and the sauce has thickened.

  6. 6

    Scatter with chopped parsley and serve with the sauce spooned over.

Equal House

Plan your meals — and share the cooking

Equal House builds your shopping list by aisle, times the cooking for dinner, and shares it out fairly. Free to start.

Free to start on your iPhone Free to start on your Android phone Free to start · No ads · Your family's data stays yours.