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How to Make Potato and Frafkhin Pastries
Total time30 min
Prep10 min
Cook20 min
Yield2 servings
DifficultyEasy
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Pastries and baking

ChefNajwa Awad

How to Make Potato and Frafkhin Pastries

Cheese pastries, potato pastries, and frafkhin pastries. Ingredients: 1 kilo potatoes, minced meat, salt and spices to taste, 1 onion, 2 bunches of frafkhin, sumac, olive oil, and mozzarella cheese. Method: Peel the potatoes, grate them, then squeeze them well to remove...

Cheese pastries, potato pastries, frafkhin pastries:

Ingredients

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  • 1 kilo potatoes
  • Minced meat
  • Salt and spices to taste
  • 1 onion
  • 2 bunches frafkhin
  • Sumac
  • Olive oil
  • Mozzarella cheese

Method

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  1. Peel the potatoes, grate them, then squeeze them well to remove all the water.
  2. Season the potatoes with finely minced onion and qawarma fat or minced meat, salt, and spices to taste.
  3. Frafkhin: Wash the two bunches of frafkhin well after removing any unwanted leaves and trimming them, then place them in a colander. Season them with onion, sumac, olive oil, and salt.
  4. Roll out the dough and shape it into circles of any size you like.
  5. Fill each pastry as desired.
  6. Bake the frafkhin and potato pastries in a preheated oven at 180°C until cooked through and golden.
  7. Fry the mozzarella cheese pastries in plenty of hot oil.

Recipe tags

Pastries and bakingInternationalGluten freeNut freeEgg freeEasyQuick cook

Notes and serving ideas

  • طريقة تحضير عجينة الفطاير

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