Mutabbaq Ingredients:
2 cups sifted white flour,
¼ tsp salt,
warm water (about 1 cup).
Filling:
½ kg mincemeat,
one small onion,
½ tsp pepper,
½ tsp salt,
one bunch leeks or parsley,
8 eggs,
oil for frying.
1-Put the flour and the salt in a bowl and add water gradually while kneading the dough into a soft but firm ball.
2-Grease your hands with a little oil and cut the dough into balls (orange size). Cover with plastic sheet, and leave it for an hour.
3-Meanwhile chop the onion and add to the mincemeat in a pot with the pepper and salt, cook until done.
4-Wash the greens, and chop, add to the cooled mincemeat.
5-Spread a clean cloth (or bedsheet specially bought for this purpose).
6-Spread the dough (by hand, like pizza makers), and cut into rectangles. use the extra dough cut from the sides to make the little rectangle in the middle used to put the filling in.
7-Put around 5 Tbs of filling inside the small rectangle and spread it, then add on r two eggs, after mixing them a little.
8-Start by folding the left and right sides of the big rectangle over the filling, then fold the other two sides.
9-Heat 2Tbs of oil in a big wok or wide frying pan, and lift the muttabag carefully, put in oil and let fry for 5 minutes then turn it over gently using a wide slotted spoon.
10-Remove and put on paper towel to remove extra oil and start with the next mutabag. (only add two Tbs of oil to the wok every time you fry one.
11-Cut the cooked mutabag into small squares and garnish with lemon slices and green chili peppers.
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