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Kibbeh

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 375 ml bulgur (fine cracked
  • wheat)
  • 900 g lean ground lamb or beef
  • 1 large onion, ground
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 125 ml cold water

Directions

  1. Rinse bulgur in water. Drain the bulgur by cupping it in your hands and squeezing out all the moisture. Add ground meat, onion, salt and pepper. Grind all the ingredients together twice. (If a grinder is not available, knead all ingredients together well.) After grinding or kneading, add cold water to soften, and knead again. In palm of hand flatten balls of the kibbeh until about 2-cm thick, like hamburgers. Fry in hot oil until brown on both sides.