Spicy Middle Eastern Arayes Ground Beef Stuffed Pita
 
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Spicy Middle Eastern Arayes Ground Beef Stuffed Pita
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Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 600 grams ground beef (with a lot of fat)
  • 3-4 freshly baked pitas
  • 1 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon canola oil
  • 1 yellow onion
  • 1 jalapeno
  • 1 cup chopped parsley
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 4 medium tomatoes
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • juice of 1½ lemons
  • 1 small red onion
  • 2 tablespoons tahini paste
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Begin with making the ground beef mixture so that it has time to marinate. Combine the ground beef with chopped yellow onion, ½ cup chopped parsley, 1 minced garlic clove, ½ a tomato grated, ½ a jalapeno finely chopped, olive oil, cumin, cinnamon, salt and pepper to taste. Then set aside.
  3. For the tahini, add tahini paste, juice of ½ a lemon, salt, pepper, 2 ice cubes, 1 tablespoon water, and 1 clove minced garlic into food processor. Incorporate until its creamy and smooth. If too watery, add more tahini paste, and if it's too thick, add more water.
  4. For the tomato salad, dice the remaining tomatoes and combine with diced red onion, remaining chopped parsley, remaining jalapeno, remaining lemon juice, salt and pepper.
  5. Cut the pitas in half and stuff each one with a fist full of the spiced beef mixture.
  6. Preheat the canola oil in a large pan.
  7. Sear the pitas beef side down in the pan for 1 minute or until the beef has crisped up. Then, flip to the other sides of the pita and fry for 30 seconds each, until a crispy crust forms.
  8. Transfer the crispy stuffed pitas onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper and enter into the oven to finish cooking the insides of the beef. Bake for 10-12 minutes. You can cut into one pita to check how done the beef is and make sure you don't dry it out throughout the cooking process.
  9. Remove the arayes from the oven, top with tomato salad and drizzle of tahini and enjoy!
Recipe by at https://seriousspice.com/arayes-ground-beef-stuffed-pita/