Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, kibbeh. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kibbeh is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Kibbeh is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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. In this kibbeh recipe, a mixture of bulgur wheat, onions, and ground beef forms a hollow shell for a delicious stuffing. Enveloped in warm and earthy Middle Eastern spices like allspice and ground cinnamon, kibbeh is the epitome of Middle Eastern comfort food.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have kibbeh using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kibbeh:
- Make ready dough
- Prepare 1 lb ground beef, lamb, or what type of meat you like
- Prepare 1/2 lb bulgar
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp ground black pepper
- Prepare 1 medium onion, chopped coarsely
- Prepare filling
- Make ready 1 lb ground beef, lamb, or whatever meat you like
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- Prepare 1/2 cup pine nuts
- Make ready 1 tsp allspice
- Prepare 1 medium onion, chopped finely
- Take 2 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
- Take 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- Get frying
- Take vegetable oil to deep fry with
- Prepare soaking
- Get cold water
- Make ready sauce
- Prepare 2 large cucumbers
- Take 16 oz plain yogurt
- Take 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready 1/4 tsp dill weed
- Take 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
- Make ready 1/4 tsp minced garlic
- Prepare 1 medium shallot
- Make ready 1/4 cup chopped parsley
Serve kibbeh with tahini, a sesame seed paste. 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 is an arabic word derived from "kubba", which means ball.
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
Add the remainder of the ingredients (adding water a little at a time) to the blender and mix. Kibbeh is an arabic word derived from "kubba", which means ball. 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 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.
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