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

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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

  1. 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.
  2. Cook rice with the remaining 500 g water, covered, at 90 °C for 18 minutes and rest it for 5 minutes.
  3. Cut pita into squares, brush with oil and bake at 190 °C for 10 minutes until crisp.
  4. Mix yogurt with garlic. Simmer tomato sauce with 250 g broth for 8 minutes.
  5. Layer pita, rice, beef with broth, yogurt and tomato sauce into five bowls.

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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