Lima bean, rice with beef

Ingredients:

1. Rice 4 cups
2. Lima beans (baby lima beans are preferred)
3. Dill 3 cups, chopped fresh or 5 tbsp dried
4. Beef 1 & ½ pound
5. Onion 1 large
6. Garlic 8 cloves (mince them)
7. Oil 1 cup
8. Salt
9. Saffron ½ tsp (mixes with ¼ cup hot water then covers it and set aside)
10. Flat bread or sliced potatoes for bottom of the pan

Directions:

Chop onion and fry using 2tbsp oil until turn golden brown.
Cut beef in not too small cubes (almost in the size of a small egg)
Add beef to onion fry it a little bit then add water and let it cook. At the end add a pinch of salt. (When beef in fully cooked most of water should have been evaporated)

Bring about 8 cups water to boil. Add 2 tbsp of salt. Add washed rice to the water let boil until rice grains start to move with boiling water and if you check rice it will be half cooked. Drain the rice. In a non stick and appropriate size pan add 4 tbsp oil and put a piece of flat bread (almost the same size as your pan) or potato slices (pan should be on medium heat)
Add 1/3 of rice, 1/3 lima beans 1/3 of dill and 1/3 of minced garlic. Repeat the process until you ingredients finish.
Mix ½ cup oil with ½ cup water and pour all over the rice when stem start to appear close the pan lid (cover the lit with piece of kitchen towel) and set oven on low temperature.
It would be need to steam for an hour.
Pour some rice in a bowl and liquid saffron to it and save for decoration over the dish.
Serve in a tray or in your plate. First spreads a layer of mixed rice on plate spread some beef on it and cover with more rice.
At the end covers with saffron rice.
It is a very delicious most of people like it.
Enjoy !