Food of mourning and remembrance
Dishes made for funerals and to remember the dead.
LahmacunMeat
🇸🇾 Syria and 3 moreThin flatbread baked with a topping of minced meat, vegetables and herbs
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
KeşkekMeat
🇹🇷 Turkey and 3 moreA ceremonial wheat and meat stew shared across Turkey, Armenia, and the region
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
SeswaaMeat
🇧🇼 Botswana and 1 moreShredded boiled beef or goat, a ceremonial dish from Botswana
Main dish
Kibbeh nayyehMeatكبّه نيّه
🇱🇧 Lebanon and 2 moreRaw lamb or beef mixed with bulgur and spices, served as a Levantine mezze
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
GheimehMeatقیمه
🇮🇷 Iran and 1 morePersian stew of lamb, split peas, tomato and dried lime, topped with crispy potatoes
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
Canja de galinhaMeat
🇵🇹 Portugal and 2 moreChicken and rice soup from Portugal, Brazil, and Cape Verde
Soup, Supper, Dinner
Mannish waterMeat
🇯🇲 JamaicaJamaican goat soup with yam, banana, and dumplings
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Keşkek: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Seswaa: Kalanga, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mannish water: Foodista, CC BY 2.0, source
- Lahmacun: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Zenz assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gheimeh: Diako1971, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kibbeh nayyeh: منال شحادة, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Canja de galinha: Sebástian Freire, CC BY-SA 2.0, source