diced lamb

Arab burek is often stuffed with minced or diced lamb or beef, or a mixture of the two.

The marqa or stew consists of diced lamb cooked with spices, tomatoes, chopped onions and chick peas.

Çoban kavurma is a variety of it, prepared with diced lamb with tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, peppers and herbs.

And the same tart sauce didn't help watery moussaka, (the eggplant was sodden mush) with diced lamb, tomato, onions and peppers.

Talaş kebabı, 'sawdust kebab' - Diced lamb, mixed with grated onions, brown meat mixed with flour dough.

The brief but tasty menu includes vegetarian options, plates to share and stand-alone mains such as the excellent hünkar beğendi (diced lamb on a bed of eggplant).

You might find grilled peppers soaked in olive oil - giving them a melting, lozengelike suppleness - or vegetables stuffed "grandmother's style" with diced lamb, garlic, parsley and tomato sauce.

Iraqi Qeema is made with finely diced lamb and crushed chickpeas, and is traditionally prepared on a large communal scale at the annual Āshūrā commemorations in southern Iraq.

Personally I find it impossible not to admire a place whose antipasti offerings include a sauté, lightly bound with egg, of diced lamb heart, liver, intestines and spleen as well as one organ, lung, the U.S.D.A. won't let you eat.

The rich, dense, finely diced lamb, in a gravy of root vegetables, is capped with a narrow layer of browned mashed potatoes and the wurst, perched on roasted apple-laced cabbage, benefits from its plate mates of tiny caramelized onions and boiled potatoes.