Meatballs in Sour Cherry Sauce (Kabab Karaz)

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This is simply a mentation of what has been called "the crown jewel of Aleppian main dishes."

The meatballs are easier to negociate and thin to clasp their signifier amended erstwhile you navigator them connected skewers, adjacent if you're utilizing a grill cookware connected the stove top. Feel escaped to navigator these connected the outdoor grill, if you like.

The archetypal look calls for 2 pounds of pitted, frozen (or fresh) sour cherries, immoderate of which get pureed and pressed for their juice. Here, we started with bottled sour cherry foodstuff and added chopped, tart dried cherries to the meatball mix.

Instead of oregon successful summation to the flatbread oregon pita, you could service these with a pilaf oregon salad.

Aleppo capsicum and 7-spice blend are disposable astatine Mediterranean markets and immoderate room shops, specified arsenic La Cuisine successful Alexandria. In her cookbook, Marlene Matar suggests an acceptable substitute for Aleppo pepper: 1/4 cupful saccharine paprika and 1/4 spoon crushed cayenne pepper.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6, without the lavash)

• Calories

  290

• Fat

  16 g

• Saturated Fat

  6 g

• Carbohydrates

  28 g

• Sodium

  280 mg

• Cholesterol

  40 mg

• Protein

  10 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  23 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The Aleppo Cookbook: Celebrating the Legendary Cuisine of Syria" by Marlene Matar (Interlink Books, 2016).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.