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.
Ingredients
For the Flat Bread:
- 2 cups plain flour
- 3 tablespoon melted butter ghee, or oil
- Salt
- Lukewarm water
For the Filling:
- 500 g beef, chicken, or lamb mince
- ½ teaspoon ginger paste
- ½ teaspoon garlic paste
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 2 eggs beaten
- ½ teaspoon ground turmeric
- 2 tablespoon 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
Serving: 1g | Calories: 344kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 21g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 100mg | Sodium: 191mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g
Needle and Fork says
this dish looks great.. kind of looks like quesadilla 🙂
Nish says
So glad you liked it! Thanks for stopping by.
sybaritica says
I love these. I haven't made them in ages. I must do them again and your recipe looks great!