Small kibbeh dumplings in a creamy white yogurt sauce with a tiny green herb garnish.

Kibbeh labaniyeh

Lebanon · Middle East and North Africa

Short description
This dish pairs spiced kibbeh dumplings with a tangy cooked-yogurt sauce.
Ingredients
Fine bulgur, ground lamb or beef, onion, plain yogurt, egg or starch, mint, garlic, pine nuts, allspice, salt, and black pepper.
Cultural note
It is associated with shared family meals where the sauce is kept smooth and warm rather than boiled harshly.
Common misconception
It is not raw kibbeh; the dumplings are cooked in the yogurt sauce.

image credit

كبة لبنية.jpg

creator:
Mr.TAMER.Shlash
license:
CC BY-SA 3.0
modified:
Copied from Wikimedia Commons, center-cropped/resized and upscaled 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.