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Maqluba

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “upside-down rice and eggplant casserole”. Today it says “traditional levantine dish”.
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Dish served throughout the Levant This article is about the Levantine dish. Maqluba (also attested by a variety of other spellings in English; Arabic : مَقْلُوبَة , romanized : maqlūba , lit. ' upside-down ' ) is a traditional Levantine dish, a variety of Pilaf that is popular across Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. 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 . In the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Palestinians have described attempts to label the dish as Israeli as cultural appropriation . Cooking the Middle Eastern way . Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life . The most traditional Palestinian meals are maqluba, musakhan, and mansaf Ottolenghi, Yotam (2015). The Journal of Critical Food Studies . 15 (1). Maqluba, an upside-down rice and vegetable cake that is actually Palestinian Elizabeth Carty (24 September 2012).

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upside-down rice and eggplant casserole

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traditional levantine dish

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