Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, fatteh. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Fatteh (Arabic: فتّة meaning crushed or crumbs, also romanized as fette, fetté, fatta or fattah) also Shâmiyât (Arabic: شاميات "Damascene"), is a class of Levantine dishes [failed verification] consisting of pieces of fresh, toasted, or stale flatbread covered with other ingredients. Fatteh is a bread based dish usually served at breakfast. The bread is broken up into pieces (where the word fatteh comes from) and toasted or fried.
Fatteh is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Fatteh is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook fatteh using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Fatteh:
- Make ready 1 Whole Chicken
- Prepare 1 Pita Bread Large piece of Arabic
- Prepare 4 Cups Yogurt
- Take 5 Cloves Garlic
- Take To Taste Salt
- Take 1 Cup Chickpeas , cooked
- Get Oil for frying
- Make ready Water chicken reserved from
- Make ready Cayenne Pepper
- Get Mint Dried
Some people will omit the chickpeas when adding the eggplant. However, I feel like the chickpeas make it heartier, as well add a healthy dose of plant protein, so I prefer to keep them. Fatteh is very popular in the middle east with different names and ingredients like chicken shawarma fatteh or this eggplant fatteh. For fattah we are going to need three sets of ingredients, meat boiling ingredients, ingredients to make rice and a third set for the sauces.
Steps to make Fatteh:
- Clean and boil the chicken until the meat is tender and comes easily off the bone. Set aside until it's cool enough to handle and then remove the meat from the bones and shred. Set aside.
- Smash garlic into a paste and combine with yogurt and a little salt. You'll have to taste it to make sure it's to your liking. Set aside.
- I usually make a ton of chickpeas in advance and then freeze in batches. For this dish I simply let them thaw and they're ready to be used. If you're using canned chickpeas, just be sure to rinse them well and remove any loose skins. Set aside.
- Slice the bread into squares or strips. Heat some oil in a large, skillet and shallow fry the bread strips until they're golden, then drain on paper towels. Set aside. Try not to eat them all…they're irresistable!
- To assemble the dish, use a pyrex dish. First place the fried bread strips in first, followed by the chickpeas. Ladle in some of the water from boiling the chicken to moisten the bread a bit. Next add the shredded chicken. Finish by pouring the yogurt mixture on top.
- Garnish with cayenne pepper and mint. The dish needs to be eaten right away, so if you're preparing ahead, do everything except the yogurt and pour the yogurt when you're ready to serve. No one likes soggy fatteh! As they say in Arabic…sahten!
The word fatteh is Arabic for "crushed" or "crumbs", and is the name for all manner of riffs on a crumbled, toasted pita casserole. If you've ever had fattoush salad with toasted pita on top, I believe it comes from the same root. Fatteh is popular, in slightly different iterations, in Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. In this episode of my cooking show, I show you how to make Fatteh, an ancient recipe that is still popular today in Lebanon! If you like what you see, check out my book and other recipes at www.
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