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Kebab Karaz

Name: Kebab Karaz
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Syria
Ingredients: 500g Ground mutton; 400g (frozen or canned) Sour cherries; 1/2 Onion; 2 tbsp Sugar; 1 tbsp Lemon juice; A pinch Cinnamon powder; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 20g Butter; 2 Pita Bread; A pinch Parsley; 1 tbsp Pine Nuts

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Little lamb meatballs simmered in sweet-sour sour cherry sauce — an Aleppo specialty.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kebab karaz is an Aleppo specialty meaning 'cherry kebab.' It's made in the season of the tart sour cherries grown around Aleppo: small lamb meatballs are simmered in sweet-sour cherry sauce, served on thin bread, and scattered with parsley and pine nuts. It's a celebration dish Aleppans are proud of.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an Aleppo home in early summer, little meatballs glisten in deep crimson cherry sauce and are brought to the table on flatbread.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Ground mutton 500g
Sour cherries 400g (frozen or canned)
Onion 1/2
Sugar 2 tbsp
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Cinnamon powder A pinch
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Butter 20g
Pita Bread 2
Parsley A pinch
Pine Nuts 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the ground lamb well with grated onion, salt, pepper, and cinnamon and roll into cherry-sized balls.
Melt butter in a frying pan and brown the meatballs, rolling them.
Add the sour cherries, sugar, lemon juice, and 100ml water and simmer 20 minutes, crushing the cherries.
When the sauce thickens, adjust the seasoning.
Line a plate with pita, top with the meatballs and sauce, and scatter with parsley and toasted pine nuts.

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