Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, kibbeh. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kibbeh, a form of the Arabic word kubbah or "ball," is a staple in Middle Eastern cuisine. Made out of lamb or beef, these football-shaped croquettes are a flavorful blend of fragrant herbs and spices, filling meat, and hearty bulgur wheat. Made from a blend of cooked bulgur wheat, chopped mint, and onions stirred into ground lamb, then cooked as small patties, kibbeh is a favorite traditional dish in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iraq.
Kibbeh is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Kibbeh is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kibbeh using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kibbeh:
- Make ready dough
- Take 1 lb ground beef, lamb, or what type of meat you like
- Get 1/2 lb bulgar
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 tsp ground black pepper
- Get 1 medium onion, chopped coarsely
- Make ready filling
- Take 1 lb ground beef, lamb, or whatever meat you like
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- Make ready 1/2 cup pine nuts
- Prepare 1 tsp allspice
- Take 1 medium onion, chopped finely
- Take 2 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
- Make ready 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- Make ready frying
- Get vegetable oil to deep fry with
- Prepare soaking
- Take cold water
- Take sauce
- Make ready 2 large cucumbers
- Prepare 16 oz plain yogurt
- Take 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Take 1/4 tsp dill weed
- Take 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- Take 1/4 tsp minced garlic
- Make ready 1 medium shallot
- Take 1/4 cup chopped parsley
It is a combination of very lean ground meat, cracked bulgur wheat and spices. Some have likened kibbeh to meatloaf, which is a great way to describe it especially for this baked kibbeh version. Kibbeh is the epitome of Middle-Eastern comfort food. Whether it is deep-fried or eaten raw, kibbeh is irresistible and a dish like no other.
Steps to make Kibbeh:
- In a bowl, soak the bulgar for 30 minutes in cold water. Remove and drain. Remove excess water by squeezing through thick paper towel or cheesecloth
- Place into bowl and combine with 1 lb. meat, coarsely chopped onion, 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. yes raw meat
- Combine well and place small amount in blender until doughlike consistency. You can slowly add an ice cube at a time during processing if needed. Place mixture aside, covered. You can put in the refrigerator let chill an hour to firm if you like
- Toast your pine nuts in a pan.
- In a medium frying pan, saute the finely chopped onion in olive oil. Add pine nuts. Add ground lamb or beef and chop well with wooden spoon or spatula to ensure the meat is chopped. Add allspice, salt, pepper, and cumin. Once beef is light brown, remove from heat. Allow to cool for 10 minutes.
- Take an egg sized amount of dough mixture and form into a ball. With your finger, poke a hole in the ball, making a space for filling. Add filling and pinch the top to seal the ball. You can then shape it into a point, or football shape, or leave as a ball.
- Deep fry in oil for about 10 minutes or until golden brown. Put onto paper towels to absorb excessive oil.
- Put all ingredients for sauce into the bleneder except cucumbers. Blend till smooth.
- Take cucumbers peel them. Slice in half remove the seeds. Grate the cucumbers amd save the juices add the cucumbers and juice to sauce ingredients and mix. Chill and use with the Kibbeh.. serve hope you enjoy!
- I had a bit of filling left so I added 1 pound corn to it . It was delicious.
- You can bake them. I did mine 400° Fahrenheit for 40 minutes
It is on the menu at every single Lebanese restaurant and has become well-known worldwide. Place the lamb or beef in food processor and mince to fine paste. Add the remainder of the ingredients (adding water a little at a time) to the blender and mix. Kibbeh consists of a dough made of meat, bulgur (cracked wheat), onions and mint leaves, formed into football shaped croquettes, and filled with more meat, onions, pine nuts and Middle Eastern spices. They are then deep fried to perfection so they are crisp on the outside and soft inside!
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