April 19 2017
Beef Fatteh
How to prepare Beef Fatteh.
Learn this delicious and famous Arabian dish of Beef chunks and yogurt.
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Ingredients
• Serves 4
• 1 onion, quartered, 1 cinnamon sticks
• 1 tbsp olive oil, plus extra, to drizzle, 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 tsp ground allspice, 100 g chickpeas, canned
• 1 tsp ground cumin, ½ tsp ground cardamom
• 400 g minced lamb, 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
• 2 Lebanese breads, 2 tbsp pine nuts, toasted
• ¼ tsp sweet paprika, ¼ cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped
• pickled turnips or radishes, to serve, green olives, to serve
• Yogurt sauce
• 250 g yogurt, 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 1 lemon, juiced, 1 lemon zest, 2 tsp tahini
Preparation
• Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Add onion and cook for 5 minutes or until softened. Add garlic, spices and remaining cinnamon, and cook for 30 seconds or until fragrant. Add lamb and cook, breaking up
with a wooden spoon, for 7 minutes or until browned. Add pomegranate molasses and 125 ml water, and cook for 2 minutes or until liquid reduces slightly. Remove from heat.
• To make sauce, combine all ingredients in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper.
• Preheat oven to 220 °C. Place the breads with some olive oil on a rack in the oven and bake for 5 minutes or until lightly golden and crisp. Set aside.
• Using your hands, break bread into pieces and place in a deep dish. Drizzle with yogurt sauce and top with lamb mixture. Scatter over chickpeas, pine nuts, paprika and parsley. Drizzle with extra oil and serve with
pickles and olives.
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