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Mhadjeb

Name: Mhadjeb
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Algeria
Ingredients: 200g Semolina flour; 100g All-purpose flour; 200ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; 3 Tomato; 2 Onion; 1 Green Bell Pepper; 1/2 tsp Chili powder; 1 tsp Paprika; To taste Vegetable Oil

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⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Paper-thin semolina dough wrapped around tomato-onion sauce and griddled — an Algerian street classic.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mhadjeb (mhajeb) is a popular Algerian street food: semolina dough is stretched so thin you can see through it, wrapped around a cooked-down sauce of tomato, onion, and pepper, folded into a square, and griddled. Crisp outside and chewy inside, it's also a favorite light meal during Ramadan.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a street corner in Algiers, a woman stretches dough wide and thin with her palms, wraps it around red sauce, and cooks it on a griddle.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Semolina flour 200g
All-purpose flour 100g
Water 200ml
Salt 1 tsp
Tomato 3
Onion 2
Green Bell Pepper 1
Chili powder 1/2 tsp
Paprika 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the semolina, flour, salt, and water well and rest 30 minutes.
Chop the onion, tomatoes, and green pepper, sauté in oil, add the paprika, chili, and salt, and cook down until dry.
Divide the dough into 6, shape into balls, and stretch each thin into a square by hand on an oiled surface.
Put sauce in the center, fold in from all four sides, and wrap into a square.
Cook in a hot frying pan until browned on both sides.
Serve hot.

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