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Gabout

Name: Gabout
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Bahrain
Ingredients: 250g All-purpose flour; 130ml (for the dough) + 1L Water; 200g Ground Beef; 300g Chicken Thigh; 2 Onion; 2 Tomato; 2 tbsp Tomato paste; 1 Zucchini; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1/2 Lime; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 2 tsp Salt

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Flour dumplings filled with meat, simmered in a spiced tomato stew — a traditional Bahraini dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Gabout is a traditional dish of Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Gulf: dumplings of wheat dough wrapped around ground meat and onion are cooked in a broth of meat and vegetables stewed with tomato and spices. There's also a simple version with plain meatless dumplings. It's made in the cold season and on days the family gathers.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a winter night in a Bahraini home, white dumplings float in a pot of red tomato stew and are ladled into bowls.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 250g
Water 130ml (for the dough) + 1L
Ground Beef 200g
Chicken Thigh 300g
Onion 2
Tomato 2
Tomato paste 2 tbsp
Zucchini 1
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Lime 1/2
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Salt 2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, 130ml water, and a little salt and rest 30 minutes.
Fry the ground beef, half the chopped onion, cumin, and a little salt for the filling.
Divide the dough into small pieces, roll into rounds, wrap around the filling, and shape into round dumplings.
Simmer the oil, onion, chicken, tomato, tomato paste, turmeric, lime, and 1L water in a pot for 20 minutes.
Add the zucchini and dumplings and simmer 20 minutes.

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