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Hawawshi

Name: Hawawshi
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Egypt
Ingredients: 400g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 1 Bell pepper; To taste Parsley; 1 tsp Cumin; 1 tsp Coriander; 4 Aish Baladi (or pita); To taste Salt; To taste Pepper

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Spiced ground meat stuffed into bread and baked — a popular Egyptian street snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Hawawshi is a meat-stuffed bread popular at Egyptian street stalls and diners. Flat Egyptian bread (aish baladi) is filled with ground meat mixed with spices, onion, and peppers and baked on a griddle or in the oven until crisp. The juicy, cumin-and-coriander meat with the toasty bread is what makes it a hit.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In the early evening, the smell of hawawshi pressed onto a hot griddle drifts down a Cairo street.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Ground Beef 400g
Onion 1
Bell pepper 1
Parsley To taste
Cumin 1 tsp
Coriander 1 tsp
Aish Baladi (or pita) 4
Salt To taste
Pepper To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the onion, bell pepper, and parsley.
Mix with the ground beef and season with cumin, coriander, salt, and pepper.
Cut open the bread into a pocket and stuff with the meat.
Cook both sides on a griddle or frying pan, pressing down, until golden.
Cut in half to serve.

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