Bites Fil Beit: Batates mahsheya bel lahma mafrooma

Adel Heine
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Bites Fil BeitStuffed potatoes with minced meat

Ingredients

  • 1/2 kg minced meat – lah-ma maf-roo-ma
  • 1 kg potatoes – ba-ta-tes
  • 2 onions, chopped – ba-sal
  • 3 tomatoes – ta-ma-tam
  • tomato paste – sal-set ta-ma-tam
  • salt and pepper – malh and fel-fel
  • oil – zeit

Directions

Preparing minced meat stuffing

  • Heat two tablespoons of oil in a pan. Stir in one onion until yellow. Add the minced meat and stir well, season with salt and pepper. Cover the pan and leave to cook.
  • Blend the tomatoes in a blender with 1/2 cup of water. Dissolve the tomato paste in a cup of water.
  • Heat two tablespoons of oil in a saucepan. Add the second onion, stirring well until golden brown. Add the blended tomatoes and tomato paste and salt and pepper. Leave to simmer for a couple of minutes.

 Preparing potatoes

  • Peel the potatoes and cut out the inside. Fry the potatoes in oil until golden and then fry insides that you took out.
  • Heat the oven to 180C.
  • Stuff each potato with about one tablespoon of meat stuffing.
  • In a baking dish, arrange the inside parts of potatoes at bottom of the dish. Arrange the stuffed potatoes on top of the insides, facing upwards.
  • Pour the tomato sauce over the stuffed potatoes. Place the dish in the oven and bake for half an hour.
  • Serve while hot in the same dish.

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