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Quipe

Name: Quipe
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Dominican Republic
Ingredients: 200g Bulgur; 400g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 1 Green Bell Pepper; 2 cloves Garlic; 2 tbsp Raisins; 1 tsp Dried mint; 1/2 tsp Oregano; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Oil for frying; 2 tbsp Ketchup; 2 tbsp Mayonnaise

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Ground beef wrapped in cracked wheat and fried — a popular Dominican snack brought by Middle Eastern immigrants.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Quipe is Lebanese and Syrian kibbeh, brought to the Dominican Republic by Middle Eastern immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A shell of bulgur (cracked wheat) and ground beef is wrapped around meat fried with onion, pepper, and raisins, shaped like a rugby ball, and fried. Served with a ketchup-mayonnaise sauce, it's sold as a snack at stalls and bakeries.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a cafeteria on a Santo Domingo street corner, people on their way home from work drizzle ketchup-mayo over hot quipes from the display case.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Bulgur 200g
Ground Beef 400g
Onion 1
Green Bell Pepper 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Raisins 2 tbsp
Dried mint 1 tsp
Oregano 1/2 tsp
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Oil for frying To taste
Ketchup 2 tbsp
Mayonnaise 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the bulgur in water for 1 hour and squeeze well.
Process half the ground beef, the bulgur, half the onion (grated), dried mint, and a little salt in a food processor into a dough.
Fry the remaining beef with the chopped onion, green pepper, garlic, raisins, oregano, salt, and pepper for the filling, and cool.
Roll the dough into egg-sized balls, hollow with your finger, fill, and shape into rugby balls with pointed ends.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Serve with a sauce of ketchup and mayonnaise mixed.

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