Maqluba
| Alternative names | Maaluba, maqlouba, maqlooba, maqloubeh, makluba, maklouba, makloubeh, magluba, maglouba |
|---|---|
| Course | Meal |
| Place of origin | Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq |
| Region or state | Levant, Mesopotamia |
| Associated cuisine | Levantine (Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian), Iraqi |
| Serving temperature | Hot |
| Main ingredients | Meat, rice, and vegetables (tomato, cauliflower, potato, eggplant) |
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.