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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Middle Eastern >> Egyptian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Saute the onion in the oil until it changes color to dark yellow. | 2. Add the meat and brown it then add the water, salt and pepper and let it cook until all the water has evaporated. | 3. If you decide to use nuts add them at this time. | 4. This is called a3sag and it is used in makaronah felforn bilbashamel (pasta casserole). | 5. Open the Fillo dough package and divide the sheets in half (they are usually sheets of 10X20" rectangles) you want to end up with 2 stacks of 10X10 sheets. | 6. In a greased 9x12x3" baking dish layer 2 to 3 sheets at a time and sprinkle them with a few drops of the melted butter, and so on until you finish the first half of the sheets. | 7. Spread the meat and nut mixture on it and start doing the same thing with the other half of the sheets. | 8. Don't worry about spreading the butter on the sheets. | 9. When you finish with all the dough cut the feteer in 2X1" squares with a sharp knife. | 10. Mix together the left-over melted butter, the egg and the milk and a pinch of salt (not much) beat it with fork. | 11. At this point, if you want, you can wrap the dish in plastic wrap and refrigerate until 1/2 hr before it is time to eat. | 12. Pour the egg mixture gently over the feteer and bake, uncovered, in a 375F oven for about 20 minutes or until the milk is absorbed and the feteer turns gold yellow. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
onion	1		chopped	60.0	14.01	1.65	0.15
extra beef	1	lb	ground lean	403.4676	0.0	89.7602	2.2667
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
water	1 1/2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
salt pepper				403.4676	0.0	89.7602	2.2667
walnut	1/2	cup	chopped chopped	963.56	0.0	0.0	109.0
butter	1/2 - 1	cup	melted	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
milk	1/2	cup	skim	276.0	6.648	2.748	28.608
phyllo pastry	1	package	thawed	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.