Arayes

Lebanese street food – pita bread stuffed with spiced kofta meat, pan fried until crispy! Think of these as Lebanese quesadillas or easy Gozleme. The unique method here is that it's cooked with raw meat inside, so the tasty meat juices soaks into and flavours the pita bread as it cooks. It's outrageously delicious.

5 pita bread , the thin pocket type, ~15cm/6" diameter (250g/8oz pack), cut in half (Note 1)

Olive oil spray (or brush with olive oil)

subheading: SPICED MEAT FILLING:

½ brown onion

500g/ 1 lb lamb or beef mince (ground meat) (Note 2)

2 garlic cloves , finely grated

1 tbsp finely chopped parsley , optional

3 tsp ground coriander

3 tsp ground cumin

1 ½ tsp smoked paprika (sub plain paprika)

¾ tsp ground allspice (sub mixed spice)

½ tsp cayenne pepper (reduce/omit for less spicy - Note 4)

1 ¼ tsp cooking/kosher salt

subheading: WHIPPED TAHINI YOGURT SAUCE:

1 cup plain yogurt

2 tbsp tahini (or Chinese sesame paste - Note 5)

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 garlic clove , finely grated

½ tsp cooking/kosher salt

Directions at recipetineats.com

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