Recipe for Oozy

Food is a very important aspect of the Middle Eastern culture. To Arabs, food is their happiness; it's the solution to everything. Any gathering must include their delicious cuisine.  For my first topic, I thought of sharing a recipe of one of my favorite dishes. Oozy is basically rice, vegetables, and ground meat rapped in a pastry sheet and is usually served with plain yogurt and/or meditation salad.

Ingredients:
2 cups of rice
1 pound of frozen green peas
1 pound of cut carrots
11/2 pound of ground meat
1 packet of Apollo Fillo pastry sheets
Salt and pepper
1 stick of butter or canola oil
1/4 cup almonds

Directions:
1. Brown the ground meat in a pan and add salt and pepper to taste
2. Sauté the carrots and peas with 1/4 stick of butter then combine with ground meat
3. Cook white rice
4. Fry the sliced almond with 1 tbsp canola oil; keep stirring until they brown
5. Melt the rest of the butter. With a pastry brush, grease a 1/2 cup bowl with the butter
6. To mold the oozy in a round shape, place a pastry sheet in the greased 1/2 cup bowl
7. Fill the bowl up with first the almonds then the peas and carrots mixture then the rice .
8. Then fold in the edges of the pastry sheet to close the oozy up.
9. Take the oozy out of the bowl and place it on a baking sheet
10. Finally, broil oozy until it browns