Israel
Photo: ClyHell6943.JPG: ClyHell derivative work: Itzuvit (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, croppedSabich
סביח
/saˈbiχ/sah-BEEKH
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- When
- BreakfastLunch & dinner
- Taste
- SavorySour
- Made with
- EggVegetablesWheat & flour
History
Sabich is a pita stuffed with fried slices of aubergine, hard-boiled egg, hummus, tahini, chopped salad, pickles and amba, a tangy mango pickle sauce. It was brought to Israel by Jews from Iraq, who ate fried aubergine and eggs on Shabbat morning, when cooking was not allowed and food had been prepared the day before. In the 1960s, a kiosk owner of Iraqi origin in Ramat Gan, Sabich Tsvi Halabi, is said to have begun selling it in a pita, and the sandwich took his first name, although another story explains the name from the Arabic word for morning. It is now a common street food across Israel.
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