Kibbeh

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Kibbeh with mint garnish
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Kibbeh with Turshi and tomato

Kibbeh or kibbe (Arabic كبة ['kibbeh] or ['kubbah]) is a dish of minced meat with bulgur and spices with many variants, both raw and cooked. It is a popular dish in the Levant, sometimes considered the national dish of Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iraq. It is also a common food in North Africa, Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of the Caucasus such as Armenia. It is a popular food with the Sephardic Jewish community both in Israel and in the diaspora.

It is best known away from the Middle East as a 7 to 15 cm-long torpedo-shaped bulgur shell stuffed with a filling based on spiced minced lamb and fried till brown. The shape is characteristic; British soldiers in the Middle East during the Second World War used to call these kibbeh "Syrian torpedoes"[1]. The shape, size, spicing, filling, and bulgur shell differ considerably.

In Middle Eastern cooking various quite different dishes with bulgur and minced lamb are called kibbeh. Kubbat Halab is an Iraqi version made with a rice crust, though apparently not originating in the Syrian city of Halab (Aleppo) as its name suggests. Kubbat Mosul is another Iraqi version originally from Mosul where a bulgur crust is used, but the shape is flat and round, like a disc. Kubbat Shorwa is an Assyrian-Iraqi version made as a stew, usually with tomato sauce and spices. Kibbe nayye, the meat and bulgur mix served raw without a crust like steak tartare, is popular in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq. It and is often accompanied by arak. In Lebanon fresh kibbeh meat is often eaten raw, and the remainder cooked the next day, sometimes without a crust. Kibbeh is traditionally served with a sesame seed tahina dip.

Besides being found in the Middle East and restaurants offering Middle Eastern food, torpedo-shaped kibbehs have become popular in the Dominican Republic [1] and South America after they were introduced by Lebanese and Palestinian immigrants.

[edit] Names

The Arabic word kubbeh means a ball.[2] Various spellings of the name are used in different countries: in English, kibbe and kibbeh; in Brazil and Colombia, quibe or kibe; elsewhere in Latin America, kipe or quipe.

In Turkey kibeh is called içli köfte; in Armenian, kufteh.

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[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Staff writers (2007-08-22). Quipes - Cocina Dominicana. La Cocina de Tia Clara. Retrieved on 2007-08-22.
  2. ^ Maan Z. Madina, Arabic-English Dictionary of the Modern Literary Language, 1973
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