A FOOD TRADITION
Aleppine Cuisine
The cuisine of Aleppo is renowned for layered meat dishes, sour fruit sauces, red-pepper pastes, bulgur preparations, and pistachio-rich sweets.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
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Aleppine Baklava
A baked Aleppine baklava made from layered phyllo pastry, butter, pistachios, and sugar syrup.
Aleppine Meatballs with Cherry Sauce
Aleppine meatballs are seasoned minced meat cooked and served in a tart sour-cherry sauce, often balanced with onion, cinnamon, and sugar.
Aleppine Sfiha
Aleppine sfiha is an open-faced baked pastry topped with seasoned minced meat, commonly accompanied by onion and tomato.
Aleppine Stuffed Eggplant
Aleppine stuffed eggplant consists of eggplant filled with seasoned meat and rice and braised in a tomato-based sauce.
Aleppine Sujuk
Aleppine sujuk is a strongly seasoned cured or dried beef sausage flavored with garlic, cumin, and dried red chili pepper.
Balorieh
A Syrian layered shredded-pastry sweet filled with pistachios, baked with ghee, and glazed with sugar syrup.
Biber Dolmasi
Bell peppers are stuffed with a seasoned rice and ground-meat filling and cooked with onion and tomato.
Fattet Makdous Aleppine
An Aleppine eggplant fatteh layered with cooked eggplant, seasoned ground meat, bread, garlicky yogurt, tahini, and optional nuts.
Ispanakh Bil Lahme
Spinach is braised with seasoned ground meat, onion, garlic, olive oil, and lemon.
Karabeej Halab
A traditional Aleppine baked semolina pastry filled with pistachios and commonly served with a sweet airy accompaniment.
Kebab Bil Dush
Aleppine lamb kebabs are cooked with mushrooms, onion, and aromatic seasoning in a savory sauce.
Kebab Halabi
A grilled Aleppine kebab of seasoned ground meat shaped around skewers and served with red pepper, onion, garlic, and herbs.
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