Kibbeh nayyeh

{{Short description|Levantine mezze}}

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| main_ingredient = Minced raw lamb or beef or goat meat, bulgur, spices

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Kibbeh nayyeh or raw kibbeh ({{langx|ar|كبه نيه

}}) is a Levantine{{cite book|last=Hage|first=Ghassan|date=2021|title=The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Turkish in the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mC9AEAAAQBAJ|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|page=120|isbn=9780226547060|access-date=2023-09-06}}{{Citation |last=Al-Khusaibi |first=Mohammed |title=Arab Traditional Foods: Preparation, Processing and Nutrition |date=2019 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24620-4_2 |work=Traditional Foods: History, Preparation, Processing and Safety |pages=9–35 |editor-last=Al-Khusaibi |editor-first=Mohammed |access-date=2023-12-28 |series=Food Engineering Series |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-24620-4_2 |isbn=978-3-030-24620-4 |editor2-last=Al-Habsi |editor2-first=Nasser |editor3-last=Shafiur Rahman |editor3-first=Mohammad |archive-date=2024-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224160311/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-24620-4_2 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HlKBpvoVq-QC&pg=PA361|isbn=978-1-4391-5753-4|page=349|author=Annia Ciezadlo|year=2012|title=Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War|publisher=Simon and Schuster|access-date=2020-08-03}} mezze that consists of minced raw lamb (or beef) mixed with fine bulgur and spices.

Kibbeh nayyeh is often served with mint leaves, olive oil, and green onions. Pita bread is used to scoop it. It is sometimes served with a sauce of garlic or olive oil. Leftovers are then cooked to create a different dish.

Many recipes call for kibbe nayyeh as the "shell" for cooked kibbeh. In this case, however, the kibbe is rolled into a ball and stuffed with lamb, onions, pine nuts and spices, then fried.

As in other dishes based on raw meat, health departments urge to exercise extreme caution when preparing and eating this kind of food.{{cite web|last1=Whipp|first1=Ted|title=Raw meat dish banned by Windsor-Essex County Health Unit|date=26 June 2012|url=https://windsorstar.com/life/food/raw-meat-dish-banned-by-windsor-essex-county-health-unit|website=Windsor Star|access-date=16 October 2022|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803120046/https://windsorstar.com/life/food/raw-meat-dish-banned-by-windsor-essex-county-health-unit|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last1=Minicuci|first1=Angela|title=Salmonella Outbreak in Southeast Michigan Linked to Consumption of Raw Ground Beef|url=http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,4612,7-132-8347-293682--,00.html|website=Michigan Department of Community Health|access-date=5 November 2014|archive-date=6 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106075427/http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,4612,7-132-8347-293682--,00.html|url-status=live}}