Use minced meat that has some fat in it. Even better, use a mixture of beef and lamb. We use cilantro instead of parsley, and spice it with salt, pepper and ras el hanout. We usually grill the arayes instead of frying it. Can also grill it in the oven, or even - yes, yes - in a panini press.
I've made this recipe with lamb a few times now and it is delicious beyond belief every single time and so easy! My father enjoyed it too which was very special to me 😊 I am definitly adding it to my semi regular meal rotations. The only thing I can't quite enjoy is the tahini, but removing that still leaves the most delicious garlic sauce.
Definitely trying these this week! (Update, worked a charm with the Nana pitta bread and Naji's method, but I used my own very reliable and super-simple recipe for Kofta mix found in an old Lebanese cookbook from the 1970s.)
Hi chef, what it makes Lebanese? It's from the Levantine region. We have been eating this in Jordan, Syria, and Palestine for ages. Like hummus as well doesn’t have an ID to say I’m Lebanese or Syrian ❤
From her blog "Cook for about 2 minutes on each side, pressing down lightly with a spatula, until golden and crispy. The meat is spread so thin it cooks really quickly!"
@@celesteroberts7743 Greetings from India.. I truly appreciate your response to my query but at least in the Indian context, this is not possible with any meat whatsoever. For us, The other way out is to precooked the meat, tuck it in the pita bread & toast it
@@jacquisamsung2619 we don't call it anything, it is traditional Lebanese bread, and it differs from the greek one called pita, because the Lebanese one is way thinner. You can copy this خبز لبناني and paste it on google to see how it looks cause when i type Lebanese bread, it just gives so many different kinds of bread and the one i wanna show you is the traditional, the one we make aarayes with
@@yellowcube8595 no, it is literally called pita bread by everyone else in the world. خبز لبناني is "khabaz albayta" or simply khebez. Sometimes, people refer to foreign foods by names that are more known, rather than by their colloquial terms. Don't be a dick for no reason my guy.
@@sky-tec yea let's use a word colonisers use to talk about our food... let's also accept they alter them to their likings or pronounce them wrong without correcting them. let's just be ok with that. They messed up our land but why be mad about khebez right? Let them do whatever they want with it, anyway in maybe 100 years every lebanese/laventine meal would lose it original name but it is okay, everything is ok when it is America! You just make me lose hope in the human race even more my man
Well, it needs to be a name we can use as a reference in order to purchase it when we go to grocery stores here in the States, to say you don't call it anything is like going to the store and saying, "Hi, I'm looking for a bread called." And providing them with no further info. So just stop. I'm not going to spend several hours in the kitchen rolling out thin pieces of bread and making them look like pita bread b/c you said so.
Use minced meat that has some fat in it. Even better, use a mixture of beef and lamb.
We use cilantro instead of parsley, and spice it with salt, pepper and ras el hanout.
We usually grill the arayes instead of frying it. Can also grill it in the oven, or even - yes, yes - in a panini press.
Are you lebanese? Or is that an Algerian version of it haha
If you grill it, is it still crispy?
I've made this recipe with lamb a few times now and it is delicious beyond belief every single time and so easy! My father enjoyed it too which was very special to me 😊 I am definitly adding it to my semi regular meal rotations. The only thing I can't quite enjoy is the tahini, but removing that still leaves the most delicious garlic sauce.
Definitely trying these this week! (Update, worked a charm with the Nana pitta bread and Naji's method, but I used my own very reliable and super-simple recipe for Kofta mix found in an old Lebanese cookbook from the 1970s.)
That's for the end of the week movie night, thanks Nagi !
Thank you so much for this recipe! It looks absolutely delicious!! 🙂
Tried this recipe for the first time and it was super simple to make and guests loved it! Thanks Nagi
this looks heavenly
Never understood the point of adding a single clove of garlic
I know. I like a good hit of garlic
You always measure garlic with your soul.
@@princelasdoce1702 🤣🤣🤣
truly fresh Garlic has the same pungency of many cloves of the stuff we get at the grocery store
Agreed. Go all in or get out.
You're a treasure Nagi. ❤🏆
i made this today for the first time and it was amazing
Yum! Can you please tell me what brand of spatula that is? I need it!
Omg yum!!! I’m def going to try this!!
I'm gonna make it. BTW, what's the beat (background music) called?
how long does it takes for the meat to cook in the bread?
How do you know when the meat inside is properly cooked?
Could you fry the mince mixture first, then add to the pittas to fry or grill?
You might overcook the beef if you do that. It is really thin
0:15 Can I buy you a new grater?
Is the meat cooked though?
Bibi's Bakery on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles And Cambridge Farms market on Burbank Boulevard in North Hollywood sell very good fresh pita
Hi chef, what it makes Lebanese?
It's from the Levantine region. We have been eating this in Jordan, Syria, and Palestine for ages. Like hummus as well doesn’t have an ID to say I’m Lebanese or Syrian ❤
Yum 😋
Yum!!
I think inside is raw
No, heat travels through. Plus u can see the proof in the end
How can meat cook as quickly as the pita bread turns crispy.. not possible
My first thought also…
From her blog "Cook for about 2 minutes on each side, pressing down lightly with a spatula, until golden and crispy. The meat is spread so thin it cooks really quickly!"
@@mikegtfc4just read the recipe.
Because it's beef and not chicken. It cooks faster. Also some ppl like beef medium and not well done or overcooked 😉
@@celesteroberts7743 Greetings from India.. I truly appreciate your response to my query but at least in the Indian context, this is not possible with any meat whatsoever.
For us, The other way out is to precooked the meat, tuck it in the pita bread & toast it
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Its Egyptian hawawshy 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬
You're using cheap pita!! Suggestion Buy the best, yes more$
Is there a pita bread you'd recommend? I don't know what's considered the best pita bread.
Arayes is a well-known food in Jordan and Palestine, it is not known in Lebanon
The bread is not called Pita! Omg just stop naming foreign food the way you want
That's it you correct us and don't tell us what it's called? I have always known it as Pita bread, what do you call it?????
@@jacquisamsung2619 we don't call it anything, it is traditional Lebanese bread, and it differs from the greek one called pita, because the Lebanese one is way thinner. You can copy this خبز لبناني and paste it on google to see how it looks cause when i type Lebanese bread, it just gives so many different kinds of bread and the one i wanna show you is the traditional, the one we make aarayes with
@@yellowcube8595 no, it is literally called pita bread by everyone else in the world. خبز لبناني is "khabaz albayta" or simply khebez. Sometimes, people refer to foreign foods by names that are more known, rather than by their colloquial terms.
Don't be a dick for no reason my guy.
@@sky-tec yea let's use a word colonisers use to talk about our food... let's also accept they alter them to their likings or pronounce them wrong without correcting them. let's just be ok with that. They messed up our land but why be mad about khebez right? Let them do whatever they want with it, anyway in maybe 100 years every lebanese/laventine meal would lose it original name but it is okay, everything is ok when it is America! You just make me lose hope in the human race even more my man
Well, it needs to be a name we can use as a reference in order to purchase it when we go to grocery stores here in the States, to say you don't call it anything is like going to the store and saying, "Hi, I'm looking for a bread called." And providing them with no further info. So just stop. I'm not going to spend several hours in the kitchen rolling out thin pieces of bread and making them look like pita bread b/c you said so.