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Zanzibar Pizza

Name: Zanzibar Pizza
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Tanzania
Ingredients: 200g All-purpose flour; 100ml Water; 1/2 tsp Salt; 200g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 4 Egg; 60g Melting Cheese; 2 tbsp Mayonnaise; 1 tsp Curry Powder; To taste Vegetable Oil

Snack

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin dough wrapped around ground meat, egg, and cheese and cooked on a griddle — the star of Zanzibar's night market.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Despite the name, Zanzibar pizza is thin-stretched dough wrapped around ground meat, onion, egg, cheese, mayonnaise, and more, folded into a square, and cooked on a griddle. It's the specialty of the Forodhani Gardens night market in Stone Town on Zanzibar island, and there are sweet versions with banana and chocolate too.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Zanzibar's night market, a cook spins thin dough in the air to stretch it, folds the filling into a square, and griddles it until crisp.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 200g
Water 100ml
Salt 1/2 tsp
Ground Beef 200g
Onion 1
Egg 4
Melting Cheese 60g
Mayonnaise 2 tbsp
Curry Powder 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, water, salt, and a little oil and rest 30 minutes.
Sauté the ground meat and chopped onion and season with curry powder and salt.
Divide the dough into 4 and stretch each very thin into a square.
Put meat, 1 beaten egg, cheese, and mayonnaise in the center, fold in from all four sides, and wrap into a square.
Cook on an oiled griddle or frying pan until crisp on both sides.
Serve with chili sauce.

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