Minced Meat Pita Pockets

Hawawshi

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    (makes 8 pockets)
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Egypt: Recipes and stories from an ancient land

By Suzanne Zeidy and Rawah Badrawi

Published 2026

  • About

Hawawshi, the hugely popular street food, combines meat, onions, peppers and spices that are then grilled or baked in baladi flat bread. Whether Hawawshi was named after a butcher by the same name in Cairo in the 1970s, or traced back to Alexandria when leftover meat and bread were blended into a local smash burger, the result is an Egyptian favourite lauded by Liverpool footballer, Mohamed Salah, in a Pepsi advert about Alexandrian street food. Serve these meat pockets