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Kubba Halab

Name: Kubba Halab
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Iraq
Ingredients: 2 cups Raw rice; 1 tsp Turmeric; 1 Potato; 300g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 2 tbsp Raisins; 30g Almonds; A pinch Parsley; 1 tsp Curry Powder; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; To taste Oil for frying

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⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Spiced ground meat wrapped in rice dough and fried flat — a popular Iraqi fried dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kubba is a Middle Eastern dish of filling wrapped in a dough of ground meat or grain, and Iraq has many regional kinds. Kubba halab ('Aleppo kubba') is distinctly Iraqi: rice dough tinted yellow with turmeric wraps ground meat with raisins and almonds and is shaped into flat discs and fried.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a fry shop in a Baghdad market, golden flat kubba are lifted from the oil one after another as people line up.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Raw rice 2 cups
Turmeric 1 tsp
Potato 1
Ground Beef 300g
Onion 1
Raisins 2 tbsp
Almonds 30g
Parsley A pinch
Curry Powder 1 tsp
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cook the rice soft in water with turmeric and salt and mash together with boiled potatoes into a dough.
Fry the ground beef and onion, season with curry powder and salt, and mix in the raisins, chopped almonds, and parsley.
Flatten some dough in your palm, add filling, and wrap.
Shape into flat discs about 8cm across.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Drain the oil.

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