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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Lebanese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. | 2. Place eggs in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. | 3. Place over medium heat until water boils, reduce heat, and simmer for 15 minutes. OR use your own favorite technique of making hard boiled eggs. | 4. Drain water from saucepan and run cold water over eggs until they are cool. | 5. Peel cooked eggs, leave whole, and set aside. | 6. In a medium bowl, combine meat, cinnamon, zaatar, onion, salt, pepper, and cumin. | 7. Mix thoroughly. | 8. Place a strip of aluminum foil, about 14 inches long, on a clean work surface. | 9. Place meat mixture on foil. | 10. Wet your hands slightly and shape mixture into a 3½ 8-inch oblong about ½-inch thick. | 11. Sprinkle meat with parsley. | 12. Arrange hard-cooked eggs end to end in the center of mixture. | 13. Shape mixture over eggs to form a loaf. | 14. Wrap aluminum foil tightly around meat. | 15. Place in roasting pan and bake uncovered for 40 minutes. | 16. Remove meat loaf from oven. | 17. Carefully unwrap foil using oven mitts and a fork. | 18. Pierce loaf with a sharp knife. | 19. If juices from center are no longer pink, meat loaf is done. | 20. If not, wrap package again and return to oven for 15 minutes. | 21. Leave loaf on UNWRAPPED foil to cool. | 22. When cool, refrigerate, uncovered, until cold. | 23. Slice and serve. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
egg	3			214.5	1.08	18.84	14.265
lamb	1	lb	ground	1211.112	0.0	76.5677	97.9322
cinnamon	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
za'atar spice mix	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
onion	1		minced	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1/2	teaspoon		2.8865	0.7354	0.1195	0.0375
cumin	1/2	teaspoon	ground	3.9375	0.4645	0.187	0.2338
parsley	3	tablespoons	chopped	4.104	0.7216	0.3386	0.0901

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.