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Feteer Meshaltet

Name: Feteer Meshaltet
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Egypt
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 220ml Lukewarm water; 1 tsp Salt; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 150g Butter (melted); 2 tbsp Ghee (optional); To taste Honey; To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Egypt's traditional flaky layered pastry, brushed with butter and folded again and again — sweet or savory.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Feteer meshaltet is a layered pastry said to have thousands of years of history in Egypt. The dough is stretched paper-thin, brushed with butter or ghee, and folded over and over so it bakes into countless crisp, flaky layers. It can be a sweet dessert with honey or jam, or a meal filled with cheese or meat.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a specialty shop in Cairo, a skilled baker stretches the dough thin by flinging it through the air.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bread flour 400g
Lukewarm water 220ml
Salt 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Butter (melted) 150g
Ghee (optional) 2 tbsp
Honey To taste
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix bread flour, salt, oil, and warm water, knead into a smooth dough, and rest for 30 minutes.
Divide into 8 pieces and stretch each until thin enough to see through, using flour as needed.
Brush with melted butter and fold from the edges to build layers, repeating several times.
Coil the folded dough into a spiral and stretch it out into a thin round again.
Bake at 200°C for about 20 minutes and finish with honey and powdered sugar.

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