Egyptian fatteh with beef and yogurt

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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.

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80 min

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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.