Kubbat halab
Iraq · Middle East and North Africa
- Short description
- This fried dumpling uses rice dough instead of a bulgur shell.
- Ingredients
- Rice, minced beef or lamb, onion, parsley, raisins, almonds or pine nuts, baharat, turmeric, oil, salt, and black pepper.
- Cultural note
- It is associated with party trays and street-food counters where the split dumpling shows the meat filling.
- Common misconception
- Despite the name, it is not a wheat-bulgur kibbeh; the shell is made from rice.
image credit
- creator:
- Hill93
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons, 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
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.