Lamb, chicken or beef mince cooked on a large traditional hot plate

Taawa Keema

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Red Sea Cookbook: Over 100 family recipes and stories from Saudi Arabia

By Madeeha Qureshi

Published 2026

  • About

This is a much-loved easy-to-put-together main that is adored by every household in KSA. The word “keema” derives its origin from the Turkish for ground meat. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to class keema as one of the great culinary wonders of the Silk Route, as wherever the traders from Arabia and central Asia went, they took such recipes with them, only to return with countless flavourful versions of this recipe.

This particular version of keema is very popular as a humble homema