🇸🇾 Syria
Kibbeh Halabiyeh
Aleppo, the city of kibbeh, counts dozens of kinds — these are the classic fried torpedoes.
🔪 Prep: 75 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Takes love
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Hand-shaped torpedoes with a thin crisp shell; Aleppo pepper and a touch of pomegranate molasses in the filling.
Ingredients
- 500 gfine burghul
- 600 gground lamb
- 2 onions
- 50 gwalnuts or pine nuts
- 1 tbsppomegranate molasses
- 1 tspAleppo pepper
- 1 tspseven-spice
- to tasteoil for deep frying
Method
- 1
Make the shell dough from burghul, half the meat, onion, and spices, kneading until pliable.
- 2
Cook the filling: meat, onion, nuts, molasses, and Aleppo pepper.
- 3
With a wet finger, hollow balls of dough into thin shells, fill, and seal into pointed torpedoes.
- 4
Deep-fry until mahogany and crisp.
- 5
Serve with yogurt-cucumber salad.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6