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Sfinz

Name: Sfinz
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Libya
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 5g Dry yeast; 1 tsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 250ml Water; To taste Oil for frying; To taste Honey; 4 Egg

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Loose dough stretched into rings and fried, topped with an egg or honey — Libya's breakfast fried bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sfinz is the classic Libyan breakfast fried bread: soft yeasted dough is shaped into rings by hand and fried. It's eaten with sugar or honey, and sfinz bil beid, with an egg cracked into the center as it fries, is also popular. It's eaten with mint tea at Tripoli's morning stalls.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Tripoli stall in the morning, rings of dough drop into a big pot of oil and the puffed breads are drizzled with honey.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Bread flour 300g
Dry yeast 5g
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 250ml
Oil for frying To taste
Honey To taste
Egg 4

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and lukewarm water into a soft dough.
Let rise 1 hour until doubled.
With oiled hands, pinch off dough, flatten, and poke a hole in the center to make rings.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden on both sides (for the egg version, crack an egg into the hole as it fries).
Drizzle with honey, or sprinkle the egg version with salt.

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