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Mafrum
Meat

Mafrum

Thick slices of potato or eggplant, filled with a ground meat mixture, browned in oil and cooked covered in a sauce of tomato paste and water until tender. A Tripolitan dish.

⏱ 42 min🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

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

To assemble

  1. 2
    Cut the potatoes into thick slices of 1 cm.
    KnifeCutting board
  2. 3
    Cut a slit lengthwise in each slice almost to the end and fill with the mixture, without letting it split.
  3. 4
    Heat the oil in a pan and brown the mafrum on both sides, until golden.
    StoveFrying pan
  4. 5
    Arrange the mafrum in a wide pot.
    Wide, shallow pot
  5. 6
    Mix the tomato paste and water and pour over the mafrum.
  6. 7
    Cover and cook over low heat 30 minutes.
    StoveWide, shallow pot
594calories
28 gprotein
50 gcarbs
31 gfat
● protein 19%● carbs 34%● fat 48%

Per serving (491 g), of 4 servings

For the Meatball mix · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 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)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • 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)

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🧩 Parts

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Salting and draining the slices (minutes) (20) · Tomatoes in the sauce · Lemon juice in the sauce · Cumin in the sauce · Hot paprika in the sauce · Salt in the sauce · Sauce cooked first in the browning pot (minutes) (5) · Serving (with white rice)
  • Slice thickness: 1 cm
  • Browning vessel: in a pan
  • Browning time: on both sides, until golden
  • Cooking time (minutes): 30

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