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Crispy Lebanese Meat Stuffed Pita - Arayes
Recipe video above. Lebanese street food - pita bread stuffed with spiced kofta meat, pan fried until crispy! Think of these as Lebanese quesadillas or easy Gozleme. :) The unique method here is that it's cooked with raw meat inside, so the tasty meat juices soaks into and flavours the pita bread as it cooks. It's outrageously delicious. I bet you become as obsessed with these as I have!
👥 10 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 30 min⏳ Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 15 min👤 Nagi📖 recipetineats
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- ●bowl
- ●grater
- ●oven
- ●frying pan
- ●pan
- ●spatula
- ●whisk
- ●microwave
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Spiced meat filling:
2
Grate the onion in a bowl using a standard box grater. We want the juices and all! (Note 4)
3
Meat filling - Add remaining meat filling ingredients. Mix well with your hands.
4
Divide stuffing in 10 (about 55 to 60g per portion, 1/4 cup). Flatten into a semi-circle shape slightly smaller than the pita bread half.
pita bread (, the thin pocket type, ~15cm/6" diameter (250g/8oz pack), cut in half (Note 1))5
5
Stuff - Gently open a pita then place the meat inside. Close, then press to spread to the edge and make it fairly evenly flat. (Is your pita tearing? See Note 5 for tip!)
6
Cooking Arayes:
7
Preheat oven to 50C/120F. Place a rack on a tray. (To keep cooked Arayes warm.)
8
Cook - Heat a large frying pan over medium high heat. Spray both sides of the pita with olive oil then place 2 or 3 pieces in the pan (whatever you can fit). Cook for about ⏱️ 2 minutes on each side, pressing down lightly with a spatula, until golden and crispy. The meat is spread so thin it cooks really quickly! {Sandwich press - Note 7}
9
Keep warm - Transfer cooked Arayes onto the rack and put in the oven to keep warm. Cook remaining pita.
10
Serve - Cut in half if desired (sometimes I do, sometimes I don't!). Pile Arayes onto a serving platter. Serve with Whipped Tahini sauce. Enjoy!
tahini (or Chinese sesame paste - Note 5)2 tbsp
11
Whipped tahini sauce:
tahini (or Chinese sesame paste - Note 5)2 tbsp
12
Place ingredients in a heatproof bowl and whisk to combine. Microwave for ⏱️ 15 seconds on high. Whisk again - it should resemble soft whipped cream. Use slightly warm or at room temperature.
Nutrition Facts
calories
226 kcal
fat Content
12 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
1 g
sugar Content
1 g
sodium Content
532 mg
protein Content
12 g
trans Fat Content
1 g
cholesterol Content
39 mg
carbohydrate Content
17 g
saturated Fat Content
6 g
unsaturated Fat Content
6 g
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