Egyptian stuffed hawawshi bread
- Good for lunch
- Good for dinner
Less suited as a snack.
Four pita breads filled with seasoned minced beef, onion and green pepper; served as a complete main dish.
4 servingsFinal yield 1,120 g
Ingredients
- 400 gBread, pita, white, unenriched
- 500 gBeef, ground, 85% lean meat / 15% fat, raw (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)
- 220 gOnions, raw
- 180 gPeppers, sweet, green, raw
- 6 gSpices, cumin seed
- 3 gSpices, pepper, black
- 15 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
- 3 gSalt, table
Method
- Finely chop onion and pepper. Mix with beef, cumin, black pepper and salt.
- Split each pita along its pocket and divide the meat mixture inside.
- Brush with oil and bake on a tray at 210 °C for 18 minutes; turn the breads after 10 minutes.
- Rest 5 minutes; the filling must reach 74 °C at its centre. Serve one bread per portion.
Recipe tradition
Not yet verified
This recipe has not been checked against a documented culinary reference.
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 2,461.6 kcal
- Protein
- 134.7 g
- Fat
- 96.8 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 256.3 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 17 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 31.6 g
- Sodium
- 3,661.9 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 9.2 g
Per serving
- Energy
- 615.4 kcal
- Protein
- 33.7 g
- Fat
- 24.2 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 64.1 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 4.2 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 7.9 g
- Sodium
- 915.5 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 2.3 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 219.8 kcal
- Protein
- 12 g
- Fat
- 8.6 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 22.9 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 1.5 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 2.8 g
- Sodium
- 327 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.82 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains: Gluten
May contain: Egg, Milk
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal