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Tatar Barak
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A traditional Lebanese dish featuring dough filled with spiced minced meat, boiled, then fried or baked, served with a yogurt-tahini sauce and garnished with roasted nuts and coriander.
00:45:00 total
Serves 4
medium
Meat Main Course
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Ingredients
- large onion - 1 (cubed)
- vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons + more for frying (for frying and dough)
- minced meat - 150 grams
- salt - to taste (to taste)
- cinnamon - 1/4 small tablespoon (1/4 of a small tablespoon)
- seven spices - 1/4 small tablespoon (1/4 of a small tablespoon)
- flour - 2 cups
- olive oil - 1 tablespoon (for dough)
- water - 1 cup (for dough)
- yogurt - 1 kilo
- tomatoes - watch the video to see
- tahini - 1 tablespoon
- lemon juice - watch the video to see (optional)
- garlic - 4 cloves (crushed)
- ghee - 1 tablespoon
- paprika - 1 small tablespoon
- almonds - watch the video to see (chopped, or any nuts)
- coriander - 2-3 tablespoons (chopped)
Instructions
- Prepare the filling: Fry the onion in vegetable oil until transparent, then add minced meat, salt, cinnamon, and seven spices. Cook until the meat is dry.
- Prepare the dough: Mix flour, a pinch of salt, olive oil, and water to form a dough. Let it rest for 5 minutes.
- Shape and cook dough: Roll out the dough, cut into circles, fill with meat mixture, seal, and boil in water for 2-3 minutes.
- Prepare yogurt sauce: Mix yogurt, crushed garlic, tomatoes, tahini, and optionally lemon juice.
- Fry or bake dough pieces: After boiling, fry the dough pieces in vegetable oil until browned or bake in the oven.
- Roast nuts: In a pan, heat vegetable oil and ghee, add paprika and almonds, and roast until colored.
- Serve: Place fried or baked dough pieces on a serving dish, cover with yogurt sauce, garnish with roasted nuts and chopped coriander.
