Kibinai, kybyn, or kibin (plural in (Common Turkic Latin); singular in ) are traditional pastries filled with mutton and onion, popular with the Karaite ethnic minority in Lithuania. As everything Karaite in Lithuania, they are mostly associated with the city of Trakai.Grigorijus Potašenko. Multinational Lithuania: history of ethnic minorities, 2008, p. 58. English-language travel guides compare them to Cornish pasties.Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania, 2012, p. 25.
Initially, they come from Crimea from where the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great took Tatar and Karaite families to become their guards in order to thank them for their help during his fight against the Golden Horde.
These meat pies are also made by the Karaite minority of Melitopol in Ukraine, where they are known as et ayaklak (). The tradition of cooking them was inscribed on the National Register of Elements of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ukraine in 2018.
See also
List of stuffed dishes Empanada Chebureki Meat pie Turnover (food) Sambusak Samsa (food)
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