[Sca-cooks] Middle Eastern haggis

[Stefan li Rous]

On the Facebook Cooks Group, Urtatim Al-Qurtubiyya said:
<<< Stuffed sheep's stomach appears in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman language cookbooks, as qiba, gipa, and zerbudil, respectively. Rice is often used as the grain filler, there is usually a large quantity of chopped onions, and sometimes the sheep's trotters are included… >>>

I have a bunch of haggis recipes, both period and non. Both vegetarian and traditional. But all I think all of these have a Scottish origin. 

Could you please detail some of these Middle Eastern versions? I'm particularly interested in how they vary from the Scottish ones. The rice, in particular, appears to be a change. But then rice doesn't grow in Scotland and I suspect oats don't grow that well in the Middle East. 

Thanks,
  Stefan

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