patient with constipation is cabbage with meat, as follows:
Lohano Basdi (Kelom)
- 1 pound meat, fat, of beef, mutton, or lamb
- 3 pounds cabbage
- 2 dry onions, medium
- 2 tomatoes, ripe (or 3 to 4 tablespns. of canned)
- 3 cups broth (or plain water)
- Salt and red pepper to taste
Cut the cabbage into egg-sized pieces, and the meat into one-half the size of the cabbage pieces. Also chop coarsely the onions and put them all, alternately, into a suitable vessel. Season with salt and the red pepper. Then, after adding the cut tomatoes and the broth, boil on a moderate fire until the meat and cabbage become very tender. (It is better to serve this Basdi at least six to eight hours after cooking, when it should be reheated.)
Another dish equally valuable in their diet is Tureli Chuvedge, or mixed vegetables with meat:
- 1 pound meat, fat, of 1 mutton or lamb
- 1 pound eggplant
- ½ pound green beans
- 2 dry onions, medium
- 1 bunch parsley
- ¼ bunch mint
- 5-6 strips celery
- 3 to 4 tomatoes, ripe and unripe
- Salt and red pepper to taste
Clean all the vegetables properly and cut them into small sizes, the same with the meat. Then put these all in a deep flat pan or a deep earthen vessel, and after seasoning the whole to taste, place in a moderately hot oven, until well done. It is not necessary to use any broth or plain water with this Basdi, as the ingredients will discharge enough water to be cooked in.
