Name: Murtabak
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: • 500g beef, chicken, or lamb mince; • ½ tsp ginger paste; • ½ tsp garlic paste; • 1 medium onion chopped; • 2 eggs beaten; • ½ tsp ground turmeric; • 2 tbsp curry powder; • A handful of coriander leaves; • ½ cup green peas or grated carrot (optional); • Salt to taste; • Oil; • 2 cups plain flour; • 3 tbsp melted butter, ghee, or oil; • Salt; • Lukewarm water

Call it Singaporean, Malaysian, or Middle Eastern, Murtabak has become an absolute favorite in my home. It is basically paper thin flat bread or roti with meat or vegetarian filling. There are tons of variations for this recipe – adding more veggies into the filling like carrot or green peas, using a veggie mixture instead of meat etc. In fact, this dish just makes our humble flat bread a bit more appealing.

Yield: 12

Murtabak

Lamb mince stuffed pancakes.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

For the Flat Bread:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 3 tbsp melted butter, ghee, or oil
• Salt
• Lukewarm water

For the Filling:

• 500g beef, chicken, or lamb mince
• ½ tsp ginger paste
• ½ tsp garlic paste
• 1 medium onion chopped
• 2 eggs beaten
• ½ tsp ground turmeric
• 2 tbsp curry powder
• A handful of coriander leaves
• ½ cup green peas or grated carrot (optional)
• Salt to taste
• Oil

Instructions

Prepare the Dough:

Place plain flour in a deep bowl, and rub in melted butter, ghee, or oil with your fingers. Sprinkle enough salt, and add water to make dough. Knead well. Keep is aside, covered, for about 10-15 minutes.

Make the Filling:

Heat oil in a pan, and fry onion, and ginger and garlic pastes. Throw in minced meat and cook well. Add curry powder, coriander leaves, and salt, and cook for few more minutes. Also add the veggies if you are using them.

Make Murbatak:

Make small balls out of the prepared dough. Roll it out. Make sure it’s very thin.
Then brush the rolled out dough generously with the beaten egg, and place a few spoonfuls of the filling in the center.
Now fold the pancake starting from one side so that you will get a rectangular parcel in the end.
Place a pan over low to medium heat. Rub some oil on it. Cook the parcel turning them occasionally. Repeat the process until all the filling and dough are used up.

Nutrition Information

Yield

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 344Total Fat 20gSaturated Fat 8gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 10gCholesterol 100mgSodium 191mgCarbohydrates 19gFiber 2gSugar 1gProtein 21g

Comments

Needle and Fork says

May 25, 2012 at 9:19 am

this dish looks great.. kind of looks like quesadilla 🙂

- Nish says
  
  May 26, 2012 at 8:23 am
  
  So glad you liked it! Thanks for stopping by.
  
sybaritica says

June 2, 2012 at 6:02 am

I love these. I haven’t made them in ages. I must do them again and your recipe looks great!