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Fattah Masriyah

🇪🇬 Egypt

Fattah Masriyah

Egypt's fattah is the Eid feast: rice and bread soaked in garlic-vinegar tomato sauce under braised meat.

🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 90 min📈 Difficulty: Medium

Cooking for

6 people

What makes it special

No yogurt — instead a daring garlic-vinegar tomato sauce over rice, bread, and slow-cooked beef or lamb.

Ingredients

  • 600 gbeef or lamb chunks
  • 400 grice
  • 2 loavesbaladi bread, toasted
  • 500 mltomato passata
  • 8 clovesgarlic
  • 4 tbspvinegar
  • 3 tbspghee

Method

  1. 1

    Simmer the meat until spoon-tender; keep the broth.

  2. 2

    Cook the rice in meat broth.

  3. 3

    Fry garlic in ghee, splash in vinegar, add passata, and simmer sharp.

  4. 4

    Layer toasted bread, broth, rice, sauce, and meat.

  5. 5

    Serve with extra sauce — Eid morning in a dish.

🍽 On your table

How this dish looks served for 6

On your table

How Fatteh is made elsewhere