Quipe (Kipe)--a Dominican Arab dish?

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Greetings again from the Sun Village resort in the Dominican Republic. My wife's biological father has schizophrenia (we visited him twice) and her mother has lupus. I'm treating her mother to a day at this resort, but the Maxim models are still here!
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"Quipe" (kipe) was sold by a street vendor outside a huge department store in Santiago. Quipe is a popular Dominican food and most of the Google cites seem to be Dominican, but the dish's origins seem to be in the Middle East. I may have posted on quipe/kipe before; OED (as usual) appears to have nothing at all(?).
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Santiago is the second-largest city in the country, and a visit to the public library turned up--zero cookbooks! I bought in a local bookstore a 300+ page comprehensive cookbook (2002) that's in Spanish, but that appears to be all I'll find here.
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Quipes - Recipe - Aunt Clara's Dominican Cooking Quipe (or Kipe) owes its origins to the Middle East immigrants who moved to the ... Before starting to cook: Put the wheat in a bowl and cover with water. ...
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quipes [Archive] - Dominican Kitchen The ratio of meat to bulgur wheat should be double ie 1 lb of meat to 1/2 lb of bulgur ... I am sure it will be the answer you are looking for. About quipe ...
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Rosie: I love Quipe and I usually ask for it at Arab restaurants here in Puerto Rico. There is also the "Quipe Crudo" that is not as popular now as it used to be. Quipe is a frequent dish in the Dominican Republic because of the Arab influence at your country. Here it is:

Quipe
(Deep fried bulgur roll)
Quipe (or Kipe) owes its origins to the Middle East immigrants who moved to the south of the island (Dominican Republic) in the 19th century.
Time: 50 Mins
Serve: 6 people

Before starting to cook: Put the wheat in a bowl and cover with water. Now add four more cups of water and let it sit overnight.

1 cup of whole wheat (bulgur)
1/4 lb. of ground beef
2 cups of oil
2 leaves of basil chopped finely
1 tablespoon of tomato paste
1/4 cup of raisins
1 teaspoon of salt
1 small red onion
1 green pepper
Black ground pepper. (...)
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