Globe Recipes

Ingredients:

Dough ingredients:
2 cups semolina
1/3 cup bread crumbs
½ tsp salt

Stuffing ingredients:
2 tbsp olive oil
2 OZ margarine
2 chopped onions
1 pound ground beef
½ tsp salt
Black pepper to taste
4 sticks of celery
3 garlic cloves

Soup ingredients:
Celery leaves from 5 braches
6 scalions
5 mangold leaves
4 diced garlic cloves
7 cups water
1 cup chicken broth
Salt to taste
Black pepper to taste
Juice from 2 lemons

Directions:

Kobeh is a semolina ball stuffed with ground beef and cooked in a sour soup.
Kubeh is one of the most popular Kurdish food, specially in winter. It is delicious and healthy too.

Stuffing:
In a large pan fry the onion to golden with the oil and the margarine.
Add the beef, salt and pepper and cook for 10 minutes.
Cook for additional hour in low heat until brown.
Let it cool and then process in food processor.
Add the celery and process.


Dough:
Mix all ingredients to a smooth dough.
With wet hands, create balls and make a hole and stuff it with a teaspoon of stuffing.
Close the hole so the stuffing is fully covered.

Soup:
Process half of the celery leaves, the scallion, one mangold leaf and the garlic and put them in a pot.
Cut the celery sticks and the mangold sticks into 2 inches long and add to pot.
Add the water, the chicken broth, salt and pepper.
Bring to boil and add the lemon juice, lower heat and cook for 40 minutes more.
Higher heat and add the kubeh balls and cook for 10 minutes.

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