Grilled meat skewers beside charred tomatoes and lemon wedges on a plate.

Kabab barg

Iran · Middle East and North Africa

Short description
This grilled skewer dish uses tender fillet pieces rather than minced meat.
Ingredients
Lamb or beef fillet, onion, lemon juice, saffron, oil, black pepper, salt, tomato, rice, butter, and sumac.
Cultural note
Often ordered from kebab houses with rice, butter, herbs, and grilled tomato.
Common misconception
It is not the same as minced koobideh; the meat is sliced fillet.

image credit

Iranian barg kebab.jpg

creator:
Rye-96
license:
CC BY-SA 4.0
modified:
Copied from the source image, center-cropped/resized to 1200x900, stripped of metadata, and re-encoded as a local JPEG for Gochizu review; no dish content edits.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.