🇪🇬 Egypt
Hawawshi
Invented by a Cairo butcher named El-Hawawsh in the seventies, it spread from his shop to every oven in Egypt.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
The bread is the pan: meat, onion, and pepper bake inside baladi loaves so the fat crisps the crust from within.
Ingredients
- 500 gminced beef, 20% fat
- 4 baladi bread loaves
- 1 onion, grated and squeezed
- 1 green pepper, minced
- 1 hot chili, minced (to taste)
- 1 tspcumin, coriander, and black pepper
- 2 tbspmelted ghee for brushing
Method
- 1
Knead the meat with onion, peppers, and spices — no breadcrumbs, no egg.
- 2
Split each loaf at the seam and spread the meat thin to the edges.
- 3
Brush with ghee, wrap in paper or foil if you like, and bake hot until the bread crackles.
- 4
Cut into quarters and eat burning hot with pickles.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4