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Potato Kibbeh

One of the tastiest and easiest vegetarian recipes. Potato kibbeh uses ingredients you likely have at home, and you can prepare a cumin blend and freeze it for later use.

Total time50 min
Prep30 min
Cook20 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyMedium
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Recipe tags

MainsLevantVegetarianVeganDairy freeEgg freeMediumBalanced time

Ingredients

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  • 5 potatoes
  • Cumin blend *
  • 1 onion
  • Fresh mint
  • 1 cup fine bulgur
  • salt
  • walnuts
  • olive oil
  • Cumin blend consists of: ground cumin, dried mint, crushed, nutmeg, a cinnamon stick, rose water, hot or chili
  • Potato Kibbeh: recipe and method by a friend and the chef at Shoutabkhin Today:
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  • Fatima Zahwi Gamloush
  • Click Fatima's name to visit her profile on our site
  • For the method to prepare the home cumin blend, click this link: Cumin Blend Recipe

Method

  1. Boil the potatoes, then mash them with the dry onion and fresh mint; add the fine bulgur that has been pre-soaked in water.
  2. Mix the ingredients and add salt, the cumin mix, and walnuts. Pound or mash all the ingredients, arrange them on a serving plate, and garnish with walnuts and olive oil
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Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

If you see a recipe written as poetry, it’s surely Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch—known as Umm Badr—who posted it. Between mawawil and rhymed prose, her rice dishes arrive effortlessly and win the admiration of everyone in our group.

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