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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Flavors of the Sun: The Sahadi’s Guide to Understanding, Buying, and Using Middle Eastern Ingredients

By Christine Sahadi Whelan

Published 2021

  • About

Kibbeh might be the best-known and best-loved Lebanese dish, but there is no way around the fact that forming and stuffing the football-shaped croquets is a labor of love that takes plenty of time. Instead, we bake the spiced ground beef mixture on an industrial-size baking sheet topped with a layer of pine nuts, then serve it cut into diamond shapes. It hits all the right flavor notes but is so much easier to assemble, especially when you are feeding a large group. It has become a Saturday