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Faltbread Pancakes with Spinach and Cheese Filling | Msemen

A delicious traditiinal moroccan flatbread with spinach and cheese filling
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Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

Dough
  • 550 gr All-purpose FLour 4 + 1/2 cup
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1/2 tsp Baking Pwder
  • 1 tsp Sugar optional
  • 30 ml Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp to cover the dough
Spinach Filling
  • 400 gr Spinach about 9 cups
  • 1 small Leek Optional
  • 1 small onion Chopped
  • 2 cloves Garlic Minced
  • 3 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 1 tsp Dried Oregano
  • 1 tbsp Chopped Parsley
  • 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 1 tsp Sweet Paprika
  • Salt and Pepper to taste
  • 75 gr Parmesan cheese 3/4 cup
  • 100 gr Feta Cheese 3/4 cup
  • 100 gr Grated Mozarella 1 cup
For the Assembly
  • 120 ml Vegetable Oil 1/2 cup
  • 75 ml Melted Butter 1/3 cup

Method
 

Prepare the dough
  1. cover with some vegetable oil, a platic wrap, and allow it to rest for 1 hour.
  2. Cover the dough with some vegetable oil, a piece of plastic wrap, and allow it to rest for 1 hour.
Prepare the Filling
  1. wash and chop the spinach, leek and the onion. (the leek is optional)
  2. In a hot pan, sauter the onions with the leek, the onion, and the garlic until transulent, add salt and pepper.
  3. Add the spinach and wait for it to shrink.
  4. Add the spices and herbs and cook till all the water evaporates.
  5. Remove from the heat, add the parmesan and feta cheese, leave it to cool.
Forming the Dough
  1. Seperate the dough into 9 or 10 small balls. Cover them with more vegetable oil, plastic wrap and leave them to rest for another 15 minutes.
  2. Start stretching the dough with vegetable oil until almost transparent, add the spinach filling in the center, add some shredded mozarella cheese,1/2 tbsp of the melted butter to the sides and fold.
  3. Make sure to watch the video for the right folding technique.
  4. Cut a square piece of parchment paper, use it as a guide to flatten to the flabreads.
  5. Heat the pan, brush it with some vegetable oil and place the bread on the pan.
Baking
  1. When you place the Msemen on the hot pan, peel off the parchment paper and brush with some more oil. Keep flipping it until it has a nice brown color from both sides.