Cairo

Hawawshi

Name: Hawawshi
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Egyptian
Ingredients: 4 baladi breads or large pitas pita bread; 500 g beef mince not too lean minced beef (beef mince, beef or buff keema); 1 large finely chopped onion; 1 green pepper finely chopped capsicum (green capsicum, green bell pepper); 2 chopped green chilli; a handful chopped flat leaf parsley; 3 cloves garlic; 1 tsp cumin powder (ground cumin); 1 1/2 tsp paprika; 1/2 tsp baharat or allspice allspice; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 2 tbsp melted, for brushing butter; Salt, to taste

Spiced minced meat baked inside flatbread until the bread crackles. Cairo's favourite street sandwich.

40 minTime

29 gProtein each

mediumSpice

The butcher's sandwich2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's waySpiced beef in baladi bread, baked crisp.

The original

594kcalsame

29 gproteinsame

3 gfibresame

40minutessame

Classic hawawshi.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Pita bread4 baladi breads or large pitas

Minced beef (beef mince, beef or buff keema)500 g beef mince, not too lean

Onion1 large, finely chopped

Capsicum (green capsicum, green bell pepper)1 green pepper, finely chopped

Green chilli2, chopped

Flat leaf parsleya handful, chopped

Garlic3 cloves

Cumin powder (ground cumin)1 tsp

Paprika1½ tsp

Allspice½ tsp baharat or allspice

Black pepper½ tsp

Butter2 tbsp, melted, for brushing

Saltto taste

Method

4 steps

1Squeeze excess juice from the onion and mix everything except the bread and butter into the mince.
2Open each bread into a pocket and spread a thin, even layer of filling right to the edges. Press flat.
3Brush outsides with butter and bake at 220 C on a tray, flipping once, until crackling and the meat is cooked through.
4Rest 2 minutes, then cut into wedges.

Serve it like this

Cut into quarters and stack on a board. Serve hot with tahini sauce, pickles and a chopped tomato and cucumber salad.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Cairo

Hawawshi

Spiced minced meat baked inside flatbread until the bread crackles. Cairo's favourite street sandwich.

40 minTime

29 gProtein each

mediumSpice

The butcher's sandwich2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's waySpiced beef in baladi bread, baked crisp.

The original

594kcalsame

29 gproteinsame

3 gfibresame

40minutessame

Classic hawawshi.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Pita bread4 baladi breads or large pitas

Minced beef (beef mince, beef or buff keema)500 g beef mince, not too lean

Onion1 large, finely chopped

Capsicum (green capsicum, green bell pepper)1 green pepper, finely chopped

Green chilli2, chopped

Flat leaf parsleya handful, chopped

Garlic3 cloves

Cumin powder (ground cumin)1 tsp

Paprika1½ tsp

Allspice½ tsp baharat or allspice

Black pepper½ tsp

Butter2 tbsp, melted, for brushing

Saltto taste

Method

4 steps

1Squeeze excess juice from the onion and mix everything except the bread and butter into the mince.
2Open each bread into a pocket and spread a thin, even layer of filling right to the edges. Press flat.
3Brush outsides with butter and bake at 220 C on a tray, flipping once, until crackling and the meat is cooked through.
4Rest 2 minutes, then cut into wedges.

Serve it like this

Cut into quarters and stack on a board. Serve hot with tahini sauce, pickles and a chopped tomato and cucumber salad.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Hawawshi

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

Hawawshi

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

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