Egyptian fatteh with beef and yogurt
- Good for lunch
Less suited for dinner.
Layered Egyptian dish of rice, crisp pita, beef broth and garlic yogurt; no side dish is included.
5 servingsFinal yield 2,700 g
Ingredients
- 500 gBeef, chuck, arm pot roast, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/8" fat, choice, raw
- 250 gRice, white, long-grain, regular, raw, unenriched
- 200 gBread, pita, white, unenriched
- 400 gYogurt, plain, whole milk
- 180 gOnions, raw
- 25 gGarlic, raw
- 250 gTomato sauce, canned, no salt added
- 15 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
- 1,300 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
- 5 gSalt, table
Method
- Cover beef and onion with 800 g water, salt and simmer covered at 95 °C for 80 minutes until tender. Shred beef and retain the broth.
- Cook rice with the remaining 500 g water, covered, at 90 °C for 18 minutes and rest it for 5 minutes.
- Cut pita into squares, brush with oil and bake at 190 °C for 10 minutes until crisp.
- Mix yogurt with garlic. Simmer tomato sauce with 250 g broth for 8 minutes.
- Layer pita, rice, beef with broth, yogurt and tomato sauce into five bowls.
Recipe tradition
Not yet verified
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 3,253.4 kcal
- Protein
- 152.2 g
- Fat
- 126 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 368.3 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 15 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 48.9 g
- Sodium
- 3,612.7 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 9 g
Per serving
- Energy
- 650.7 kcal
- Protein
- 30.4 g
- Fat
- 25.2 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 73.7 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 3 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 9.8 g
- Sodium
- 722.5 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 1.8 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 120.5 kcal
- Protein
- 5.6 g
- Fat
- 4.7 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 13.6 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 0.56 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 1.8 g
- Sodium
- 133.8 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.33 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, Milk
May contain: Egg
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