Baked Kibbeh (Kibbie) – The Lemon Bowl®

Baked kibbeh or kibbie is a standard Lebanese dinner recipe, utilizing floor beef or lamb, after which mixed with bulgur wheat, pine nuts, and heat spices like cinnamon and allspice.

My husband’s favourite Lebanese dish is, hands-down, Baked Kibbeh. Whereas not utilizing many elements, it makes use of each floor beef and floor lamb to make a tasty dish that’s protein packed and filling. My household’s recipe carries fond reminiscences together with it, so it’s about time I share the goodness with the remainder of you!

What Is baked kibbeh?

Baked Kibbeh is the mix of floor meat, super-fine bulgur wheat, allspice, cinnamon, clarified butter, and toasted pine nuts. Every chunk is tender, juicy, and intoxicatingly scrumptious. It’s a cooked model of a uncooked dish, known as Kibbeh Nayeh. Usually served with a Syrian green salad and a facet of cucumber laban yogurt sauce, that is Lebanese consolation meals at its finest. It additionally freezes splendidly so make a giant batch and freeze extras for one more night time.

make Baked Kibbeh

Begin your baked kibbeh by getting the bottom meat layer prepared. Take a big bowl together with your bulgur wheat and add the boiling sizzling water.

Then take some plastic wrap and canopy it. Let it sit for about 10 minutes, then drain any extra water from the soaked bulgur.

Take a fork and fluff the softened bulgur wheat and put together it for the meat combination.

Then in a food processor, add 1 onion and pulse till chopped.

Then add the bottom beef and lamb combination.

Sprinkle within the Lebanese spice blend in addition to some salt and pepper.

Then pulse till elements are totally mixed and turns into nearly like a paste.

Add the meat paste to a big bowl with the softened bulgur wheat and blend together with your arms till mixed.

Subsequent to make the filling, warmth a pan over medium-high warmth and add the ghee.

Add the diced onion and sauté till barely browned.

Subsequent add the bottom beef and floor lamb and season with salt.

Then add extra of the all function Lebanese spice mix, stir to combine nicely, and cook dinner till meat is browned.

As soon as cooked, end off with the pine nuts and take away from warmth.

Then take a ready casserole dish and unfold out half of the meat puree alongside the underside. In case your arms get sticky, dipping them in ice water will assist.

Then take the cooked floor meat combination and canopy the underside layer.

End the dish by protecting the filling with the remaining meat paste.

Take a knife and lower diagonally throughout the highest of the meat in opposing instructions to create small diamonds.

Then brush with extra melted ghee earlier than tossing within the oven at 400 for about 45 minutes, or till meat is totally cooked.

Take away from the oven as soon as finished, garnish with recent parsley, basil, or extra pine nuts, and luxuriate in your Baked Kibbeh!

Simple substitutions

• Varieties of ghee. You can also make your personal ghee at dwelling, or it’s present in each grocery retailer! Nevertheless, you actually need ghee, common butter or olive oil received’t do the trick.
• Floor beef solely. In the event you can’t discover floor lamb, or simply don’t need to use it, you are able to do the entire thing with simply floor beef.

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If kibbeh nayeh appears too intimidating for you, I extremely suggest this Baked Kibbeh as a scrumptious dish to start out out.

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