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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Maqluba al-Halabi
An Aleppine upside-down rice dish layered with eggplant, lamb, and rice, then inverted for serving.
Muhammara
A savory Aleppine dip made from roasted red peppers, walnuts, breadcrumbs, pomegranate molasses, garlic, cumin, and olive oil.
Pistachio Mamounieh
A sweet Aleppine semolina pudding enriched with butter and topped or mixed with pistachios.
Sujuk Halabi Sweet
A traditional Aleppine confection of grape-must syrup thickened into a chewy sweet with flour and sugar and wrapped or studded with walnuts.
Yakhnet al-Bamia al-Halabi
A slow-cooked Aleppine okra stew combining tender okra with meat, tomato, onion, garlic, and aromatic coriander.
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