Savoury Meat Pancake Padang Style

Name: Savoury Meat Pancake Padang Style (Martabak Mesir)
Yield: For 4 people as a one-dish meal, or 6–10 people as a snack
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 6 tbsp chopped parsley, preferably flat-leaf parsley; 500 g/1 lb 2 oz beef or lamb, roasted or boiled, or raw, finely chopped or minced; 112 g/4 oz/1 cup chopped spring onions/scallions or chives; 2 tbsp finely chopped lemon grass; 1–2 onions, finely chopped; 3 tbsp peanut oil or olive oil; 2 tsp finely chopped ginger; 1 tsp ground coriander; ½ tsp ground cumin; ½–1 tsp chilli powder; ½ tsp ground turmeric or curry powder; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups plain/all-purpose flour; 1 egg; A large pinch of salt; 84 ml/3 fl oz/6 tbsp lukewarm water; 1 tsp salt, or more to taste; About 2 tbsp peanut or olive oil; 2–3 hen or duck eggs, beaten; 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped

Martabak Mesir

Preparation info

For
, or 6–10 people as a snack
people as a one-dish meal

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Regional Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1994

About

Mesir means Egypt, but why the name is used here I do not know. My guess is that this is Muslim food. In fact, as I explained in an earlier book, Indonesian Food and Cookery, this dish came to Indonesia from India. But I am almost certain that, even further back in time, it was a Middle Eastern dish similar to what is now called borek. Somehow it reached Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, and its name changed on the way. Here in Padang there is also a sweet martabak called

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Asia
Indonesia
Dinner
Starter
Spicy
South East Asia

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