
🇪🇬 EgyptCatalog recipe
Spiced minced beef baked inside crackling baladi bread — Egypt's answer to the meat pie, sold hot in paper.
For 4 servings.
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Knead beef with onion, pepper, chili and spices.
Open each pita's pocket, spread the raw meat thin inside, and brush the outside with oil.
💡 Thin layer, full coverage — thick pockets steam instead of roast.
Bake at 220°C for 20–25 minutes, flipping once, until the bread shatters and the meat sizzles.
Quarter and serve with pickles and tahini.
Invented by a Cairo butcher named Hawash in the 1970s, hawawshi went from one shop to a national craving in a generation. The bread must crackle; the meat must drip.
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