Saturday, July 12, 2014

How to make Egyptian Rokak

Today we ate Rokak on breakfast (Iftar). Rokak is very traditional Egyptian recipe.You can eat it as a main dish because it has the meat. Or to eat it as a side dish as most of Egyptians do.



Ingredients :
  • 9 sheets of Rokak sheets. I don't know if you can find it in your country but I think you can use puff pasrty  or Fillo pastry istead but I am not sure. Leave a comment if you can find it around.
  •  1/4 Kg of pure mashed meat.
  • 1 tbs of margarine.
  • 1 small onion. 
  • 1 cup of broth ( You can use chicken broth, meat broth or you can use broth cubes.)
  • Salt and pepper and meat seasoning if you like to.
How to make Egyptian Rokak

Cut the small onion into very small pieces.This is minced meat. I like to save it with cut onion into very small pieces in one ziploc bag to be ready to be cooked. 

How to make Egyptian Rokak

On a medium heat put a spoon of margarine in a hot pan. When the margarine melts and gets hot add the onion.

How to make Egyptian Rokak

Stir until the onion gets yellow.

How to make Egyptian Rokak

Add the minced meat to the pan and stir until the meat color turns to brown.

How to make Egyptian Rokak

After a while you will find the meat gets juicy and the mix has some water.



It's time for seasoning because all the water will be absorbed by the meat again. Put salt, pepper and meat seasoning if you like but don't put too much because we don't want to miss the real taste of this recipe.


You can see now that the meat absorbed the water. Turn off the heat and you are done with the mencid meat. Let's move to the Rokak.

How to make Egyptian Rokak

How to make Egyptian Rokak

How to make Egyptian Rokak

This is the package of Rokak. I should get into circles but I didn't realize how big the "rectangular" label is "because I bought it while we are waiting the cashier but not a problem we can easily fix this.

How to make Egyptian Rokak



Cover a suitable size tray with migraine and in a big flat deep dish put the hot broth.Cover the bottom of the tray with dried hard sheet of Rokak.

How to make Egyptian Rokak

Dunk pieces of Rokak into the broth for couple of seconds. It suppose to be still hard. Don't leave it in the broth until it gets soft. Don't worry it will be soft after a while by itself. Repeat with four sheets of Rokak. Put them over each other as layers. 

How to make Egyptian Rokak

Then add a layer of the minced meat.

How to make Egyptian Rokak

Add again four wet layers of Rokak above the meat layer.

How to make Egyptian Rokak

Cover the top with margarine.



How to make Egyptian Rokak

Put in the oven and turn on the heat from top and bottom. When the top gets gold and brown turn off the oven from the top and leave the bottom to complete cooking for 15 min.

How to make Egyptian Rokak


This is the Rokak finally . Enjoy


I hope you found this post delicious and easy. Thank you for reading. See you next post.

6 comments:

  1. Mmm, this looks so delicious. I'll have to look at our local international food market to see if I can find Rokak.

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    1. I believe you can make the Rokak bread in home I will find the recipe for you.

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  2. I've never heard of this before - it sounds quite deicious! I do appreciate you sharing with Home and Garden Thursday,
    Kathy

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    1. So I am so happy to the first to ell you about it. It is so Egyptian. I will share so many recipes very soon. Keep in touch

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  3. This rokak sounds like an interesting recipe! I hope you can stop on by and share this or any other recipe with us on Five Friday Finds!

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