Egyptian Fatteh

Beef · Egyptian classic.

Ingredients

• 1lb Beef
• 1 Onion
• 1 Chicken Stock Cube
• 2 Tomatoes
• 4 Garlic Clove
• 1 tbs Tomato Puree
• 2 cups Rice
• 1/4 cup Noodles
• 1/4 cup Butter
• 2 cups Olive Oil
• 1 Pita Bread
• 1 tbs Cumin
• 3 tbs White Wine Vinegar
• To taste Salt
• To taste Pepper

Method

1. Continue cooking — To prepare bread for bottom of dish: Take pita bread and rip into bite size pieces.
2. Fry — In a frying pan, add about a 1/4 stick of butter, add bread pieces and fry until golden brown and crisp.
3. Continue cooking — Put these pieces in a glass baking dish, preferably a square sized dish. Set aside.
4. Mix together — Then add to same pan, a little more butter, salt, approximately 2 cloves of crushed fresh garlic, and a teaspoon or so of cumin stir around a bit until you can smell aroma, then add fried bread pieces to this mixture, stir to coat bread and put back into glass baking dish. Set aside.
5. Fry — To prepare meat: put some butter in a pot, stir fry meat until brown, add 1 onion quartered, salt & pepper, 1 cube of chicken bouillon and water to cover meat.
6. Bring to a boil — Bring to a boil, turn down to simmer, cover and cook until tender, approximately 2 hours.
7. Continue cooking — After meat has cooled, take out chunks of meat and put in a bowl, set aside.
8. Serve — Reserve soup from the meat separately. To prepare the rice: Put some butter into a pot, add shareya (fideo noodles) like a handful or so, keep stirring until golden brown, not too dark, but very golden.
9. Stir — Then add two cups of rice, stir a little bit until some of the rice turns an opaque white.
10. Bring to a boil — Add 2-1/4 cups of water and salt to taste. Bring to a boil, cover and turn down to simmer, cook until tender.
11. Continue cooking — Test the rice tenderness after about 35 minutes.
12. Add ingredients — Now take some of the soup from meat and add to the top of the bread pieces in baking dish to saturate.Add cooked rice on top of bread pieces.

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