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Regag

Name: Regag
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: United Arab Emirates
Ingredients: 200g Bread flour; 100g All-purpose flour; 1/2 tsp Salt; 300ml Water; 3 Egg; 60g Cream Cheese; To taste Honey

Snack

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Emirati flatbread spread paper-thin on a hot plate and topped with egg or cheese.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Regag is a traditional Emirati bread baked paper-thin and crisp. A wet dough is spread quickly with the palm onto a hot round griddle, then topped with egg, cheese, honey, fish paste, or the like. At festivals and traditional markets, women make it on the spot and sell it hot.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an Emirati heritage festival, a woman spreads dough thin over a hot griddle with her palm, cracks an egg on top, and cooks it crisp.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Bread flour 200g
All-purpose flour 100g
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 300ml
Egg 3
Cream Cheese 60g
Honey To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Add water little by little to the flours and salt and knead for 10 minutes into a loose, stretchy dough.
Cover with plastic wrap and rest 30 minutes.
Heat a frying pan well over medium heat, wet your hand, take a little dough, and smear it thinly over the pan.
When the surface dries, spread a thin layer of beaten egg or cream cheese over it and cook 1–2 minutes.
When crisp, fold it up and drizzle with honey if you like.

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