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Mutabbaq

Name: Mutabbaq
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Saudi Arabia
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 250g Ground Beef; 2 Egg; 2 Scallion; 1 tsp Kabsa spice mix; 3 tbsp Vegetable Oil; To taste Salt

Snack

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Ground meat and egg wrapped in thin dough and griddled in squares — a folded bread popular at Saudi street stalls.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mutabbaq is a dish that spread from the Arabian Peninsula as far as Southeast Asia: thin dough is wrapped around a filling of spiced ground meat, egg, and chopped green onion, folded into a square, and cooked on a griddle. Its name means 'folded,' from the way the dough is folded, and in Saudi Arabia it's a humble, easy bite at stalls and snack shops.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a stall in Jeddah, customers watch the cook's skill in stretching the dough thin and wrapping the filling while waiting for a hot mutabbaq.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 300g
Ground Beef 250g
Egg 2
Scallion 2
Kabsa spice mix 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil 3 tbsp
Salt To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the flour, salt, water, and oil into a soft dough, rest, then stretch thin.
Fry the ground meat with spices until cooked.
Mix the cooked meat, beaten egg, and chopped green onion for the filling.
Place the filling in the center of the dough and fold in all four sides into a square.
Cook on a griddle until browned on both sides.

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