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Mafroum – Meat-Stuffed Potatoes

Classic Libyan mafroum – potato slices stuffed with spiced ground meat, cooked in tomato sauce

⏱ 1 hr 20 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Libyan👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

  1. 1
    Mix the ground meat with the onion, garlic, parsley, egg, cumin, paprika, turmeric, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

To assemble

  1. 2
    Peel the potatoes.
    Peeler
  2. 3
    Cut the potatoes into thick slices of 2 cm.
    KnifeCutting board
  3. 4
    Put a spoonful of the mixture on a slice, cover with another slice and press lightly.
  4. 5
    Heat the oil in a large pot and brown the mafrum 2 minutes per side.
    StoveLarge pot
  5. 6
    Take out the mafrum. Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, water, cumin, chili and salt to the pot and cook 5 minutes.
    Stove
  6. 7
    Return the mafrum to the sauce.
  7. 8
    Cover and cook over low heat 40 minutes.
    StoveWide, shallow pot
506calories
22 gprotein
52 gcarbs
23 gfat
● protein 17%● carbs 42%● fat 41%

Per serving (544 g), of 4 servings

For the Meatball mix · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (6) · 🍳 2 cooking vessels

  • 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)
  • Large pot · Also works: Pot (Cook in two batches)
  • Wide, shallow pot · Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (Layers instead of a single layer)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Peeler · Also works: Paring knife (Wastes more of the fruit, slow)

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🧩 Built from…

Meatball mix → Mafrum

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