
Pan-fried pastries without oven or yeast
Quick plain or filled pastries cooked in a pan instead of the oven.
Simple stuffed or plain pastries cooked in a pan instead of baked.
Like skillet flatbreads or quick stuffed turnovers.
Ingredients
- 5 cups / 500 grams flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 tbsp yogurt
- 1 1/2 cups / 300 ml water
- 1 tbsp oil
- 4 tbsp oil
- 1 medium onion
- 1 tbsp pepper paste
- 1/3 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp coriander
- 1 tsp paprika
- 500 grams tomatoes
- 1 tsp nigella seeds
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
- 200 grams white cheese
- 200 grams shillal cheese or halloumi
- 1 handful parsley
- 1 tbsp ghee
- 3 eggs
- a pinch salt
- 1/4 tsp white pepper
- 1/2 tsp dried chili pepper
- mentioned without a quantity za'atar
- mentioned without a quantity olive oil
Instructions
- In a dough bowl, mix the flour with the salt and sugar.
- In the dough bowl, add the yogurt, then the water, then the oil, and knead until an elastic dough forms.
- In the dough bowl, brush the surface of the dough with oil, then cover the bowl and let the dough rest in a warm, dark place.
- In a pan, heat 4 tablespoons of oil over medium heat.
- In the pan, add the chopped onion and sauté until softened.
- In the pan, add the pepper paste, then the salt, black pepper, cumin, coriander, and paprika, and stir.
- In the pan, add the tomatoes and let the muhammara filling cook down until it reaches a consistency suitable for pastries.
- In a small bowl, add the nigella seeds and sesame seeds to the muhammara filling, then set the filling aside.
- In a cheese bowl, mash the white cheese with the shillal cheese or halloumi.
- In the cheese bowl, add the parsley, ghee, eggs, salt, white pepper, dried chili pepper, nigella seeds, and sesame seeds, then mix.
- On the work surface, roll out the dough into equal circles.
- In the pan, fill the rounds with the muhammara filling, the cheese filling, or za'atar with olive oil.
- In the pan, cook the pastries over medium heat with the pan covered until the inside is cooked through and the surface turns golden.
- In the pan, turn the pastries as needed until cooking is complete.