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Meat Cigars
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Meat Cigars

Crispy meat cigars with Middle Eastern spices – the perfect party snack

⏱ 50 minMake ahead: 8 hr🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 3 parts
🥩 Meat

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Wrapping Dough

  1. 1
    Thaw the phyllo dough in the fridge overnight, until pliable but still cold.
    Refrigerator
    💡Work with store-bought dough while it's cold: warm puff pastry gets sticky and won't puff in the oven, and phyllo sheets dry out fast, so keep the waiting sheets covered with a damp towel.

For the Meatball mix

  1. 2
    Mix the ground meat with the onion, garlic, cumin, paprika, cinnamon, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

To assemble

  1. 3
    Cut the phyllo sheets into strips.
    Kitchen shearsorKnife
  2. 4
    Place a spoonful of filling at the end of each strip, roll into a cigar and press to seal.
  3. 5
    Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat and fry the cigars, turning, until browned on all sides.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  4. 6
    Drain on paper towels and serve hot.
507calories
22 gprotein
34 gcarbs
30 gfat
● protein 18%● carbs 28%● fat 54%

Per serving (194 g), of 4 servings

For the Wrapping Dough · For the Meatball mix · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (4) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Refrigerator · Also works: Freezer (Chills faster; don't let it freeze) · Ice bath (Ice bath)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Kitchen shears or Knife · one of them

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🧩 Built from…

Store-bought dough → Meatball mix → Filled pastry

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