Maqluba

{{Short description|Dish served throughout the Levant}}

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{{About|the Levantine dish|the sinkhole in Malta|Maqluba (Malta)}}

{{Infobox prepared food

| name = Maqluba

| image = File:Makluba.JPG

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| alternate_name = Maaluba, maqlouba, maqlooba, maqloubeh, makluba, maklouba, makloubeh, magluba, maglouba

| country = Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq

| region = Levant, Mesopotamia

| associated_cuisine = Levantine (Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian), Iraqi

| creator =

| course = Meal

| served = Hot

| main_ingredient = Meat, rice, and vegetables (tomato, cauliflower, potato, eggplant)

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Maqluba (also attested by a variety of other spellings in English; {{langx|ar|مَقْلُوبَة|maqlūba|lit=upside-down}}) is a traditional Levantine dish, a variety of Pilaf{{cite book |last1=Carty |first1=Elizabeth |title=Shrewd Food: A New Way of Shopping, Cooking and Eating |date=September 24, 2012 |publisher=Hachette Books Ireland |isbn=9781444725780 |pages=256}} that is popular across Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arabamerica.com/maqluba-the-paella-of-palestine/|title=Maqluba--The Paella of Palestine|last=Shaheen|website=Arab America|date=29 January 2020 |language=en|access-date=2020-07-20}}{{Cite book|last=Behnke|first=Alison|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59008909|title=Cooking the Middle Eastern way|date=2005|publisher=Lerner Publications Co|others=Ehramjian, Vartkes|isbn=0-8225-3288-3|location=Minneapolis|pages=50|oclc=59008909}}{{Cite web|url=https://bidoun.org/articles/maha-alusi|title=Cooking with Maha Alusi|last=Bidoun|website=Bidoun|language=en|access-date=2019-01-04}}{{cite book|author1=Timothy L. Gall|author2=Jeneen Hobby|title=Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLhZAAAAYAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Gale|isbn=978-1-4144-4892-3|page=782|quote=The most traditional Palestinian meals are maqluba, musakhan, and mansaf}}{{cite journal | last=Ottolenghi | first=Yotam | title=Jerusalem on a Plate | journal=Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies | publisher=University of California Press | volume=15 | issue=1 | year=2015 | issn=1529-3262 | doi=10.1525/gfc.2015.15.1.1 | page=3 | quote=Maqluba, an upside-down rice and vegetable cake that is actually Palestinian}}{{Cite book |title=Shrewd Food: A New Way of Shopping, Cooking and Eating |author=Elizabeth Carty |date=24 September 2012 |publisher=Hachette Books Ireland |isbn=9781444725780 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WeEx-D2g-s0C&q=Maqluba+Levantine+dish&pg=PT127}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.themedialine.org/featured/maqluba-eating-upside-down/|title=Maqluba - Eating Upside Down|last=Swift|first=Robert|date=2016-03-07|website=The Media Line|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-11}} It consists of meat, rice, and fried vegetables placed in a pot which is flipped upside down when served, hence the name.

The earliest mention of the dish is found in a 13th-century cookbook, Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh (The Book of Dishes), written by Muhammad Baghdadi during the Abbasid Caliphate.{{cite web|url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/food/ramadan-recipe-maqluba-upside-down-lamb-aubergine-and-rice-1.1205813|title=Ramadan recipe: maqluba – upside-down lamb, aubergine and rice|accessdate=29 November 2023|date=18 April 2021|work=The National}} In the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Palestinians have described attempts to label the dish as Israeli as cultural appropriation.{{cite web|title= Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian food|url= https://thearabweekly.com/israels-appropriation-palestinian-food|date=4 November 2018|work= The Arab Weekly|last=Alhelou|first=Yousef}}