Recipe courtesy of Crystal Joseph

Crystal - Kibbe Recipe

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 to 6 servings, about 10 kibbe
  • Total: 35 min
  • Prep: 15 min
  • Cook: 20 min
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Ingredients

1 pound ground round

1 medium green pepper, pureed in blender

1 medium onion, pureed in blender

1 tablespoon salt

1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 tablespoon ground cumin

2 tablespoons pine nuts, browned

Oil, for frying

1 cup Number 1 cracked wheat, rinsed in cold water

Directions

  1. In large bowl combine all ingredients using only half of the green pepper and onion.
  2. Set aside the remainder of green pepper and onion mix for the stuffing.
  3. After thoroughly cooking the ground round on stovetop add all ingredients including the remaining green pepper and onion mix, cover and simmer another 10 minutes.
  4. Using the raw kibbe meat, make football shapes the size of your hands, once formed using your finger make a hole at the end of the football deep enough to add approximately a tablespoonful of stuffing into the football. Close the end after stuffing.
  5. Heat a pan of oil to 350 degrees F, fill pan with enough oil to completely cover the kibbe ball. Moisten hands and pat your kibbe ball making sure it is sealed on both ends.
  6. Deep-fry until a deep golden brown.

Let's Get Cooking!

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Anonymous

This recipe is pretty pared down, compared to others I’ve seen. As others have noted here, I’m also more familiar with the baked kibbeh. Plus, there seems to be at least one proofreading error here: If you thoroughly cook the ground round, what is the "raw kibbeh meat," and where does it com from? I don’t think I’ll be trying this one. <br /><br />I attend a church that is historically Lebanese, although my parish is now majority Anglo. Our summer food festival features the baked kibbeh, albeit without the scoring, which I love. Like many foods with a strong national/ethnic identity, kibbeh has a variety of recipe traditions using a variety of spices. The people who make our kibbeh use only a few spices (I think they use cinnamon and cloves), but you can find recipes that use all kinds of spices in varying amounts — including cumin. Moreover, baked kibbeh is done in with a "filling" between top and bottom layers that are identical. I now use a Lebanese 7 Spice Blend (both filling and top/bottom layers) as well as a Kibbeh Spice blend (top/bottom only), both commercially available and both containing cumin.

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