Hawawshi

Name: Hawawshi
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Egyptian
Ingredients: 500 g Minced beef (not too lean); 1 Onion, very finely chopped; 1 Green pepper, finely chopped; 3 cloves Garlic, crushed; 15 g Flat-leaf parsley, chopped; 1 tsp each Ground allspice, coriander, black pepper, chilli; 4 Round flatbreads (baladi or pitta); 2 tbsp Butter or ghee, melted

Spiced minced beef packed inside a round of baladi bread and baked hard, so the crust crisps while the meat steams and its juices soak back into the loaf.

Quelle

Rezept von Egyptian street kitchens · 🏺 Traditionell · The cart-and-counter side of Egyptian food — fried, griddled and stacked, sold from dawn to late night on Cairo and Alexandria streets.

Egyptian · street food — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms hawawshi as Egyptian spiced minced meat baked inside baladi bread. Quantities and method here are this book's own.

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Zubereitung

Mix the mince with the onion, pepper, garlic, parsley, spices and a good teaspoon of salt. Work it only until combined.
Open each bread along one edge into a pocket without tearing it apart.
Push the filling in and flatten it to an even layer right out to the edges — about 1.5 cm thick.
💡 An uneven layer is why home hawawshi comes out half raw and half scorched. Press it flat with your palm through the bread.
Brush both sides with melted butter and set on a hot oven tray.
Bake at 220 °C for 20–25 minutes, turning once, until the bread is deep brown and crisp and the juices have soaked in.
Cut into wedges and eat straight away, with pickles and tahini or a squeeze of lemon.

💡 Tipps

Egyptian bakeries bake it in the bread oven at fierce heat. At home, the hottest shelf of your oven and a preheated tray is the nearest thing.
Rest it 3 minutes before cutting or the juices run out onto the board instead of into the bread.
Lamb mince works and is common in Alexandria; the spice mix stays the same.