Fricassee – Traditional fried bread from Tunisia

Fricassees are a traditional dish from Tunisia. Marie makes them every now and then for me as a treat. They are the real Tunisian sandwich before modern healthy consciousness replaced the fried bread with by baguettte. This is just the recipe for the bread. The filling is the same as in any Tunisian sandwich, i.e. tuna, Israeli salad, hummus, olives, capers, boiled eggs, and some optional stuff.

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Fricassee - Traditional fried bread from Tunisia

2013-10-26 09:43:33

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Traditional fried bread from Tunisia. Packed with flavour and with calories.

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Ingredients

1. 10 grams active dried yeast
2. 1/2 cup tepid water
3. 400 grams flour
4. 1 egg
5. 3 tablespoons of oil
6. a bit of salt
7. Oil for frying

Instructions

1. Stir together yeast, water and 1 tablespoon of flour in a bowl.
2. Leave until bubbly (about 10 minutes)
3. Add in all other ingredients
4. Mix together for five minutes
5. Shape into small buns
6. Leave to rise until doubled in size
7. Deep fry in hot oil until golden

Notes

1. Marie just mixed all ingredients together for five minutes. Since I use Active Dried Yeast, which come in hard granules, I've included a yeast activation step.

Adapted from Marie Haviv

Adapted from Marie Haviv

Balagan Recipes http://balaganrecipes.info/

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Yeast and water

The dough doesn’t leave the bowl until she has shaped the buns. So all kneading is in the same bowl.

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Kneading in bowl

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More kneading

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More kneading

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More kneading

The result of all that kneading is, of course, a dough ball.

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Dough ball

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Shaping the buns

Marie pinches off a piece of dough and shapes it into a fat sausage shape.

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Shaping the buns

The recipes makes a lot of buns. In Israel Marie just has to leave them covered on the kitchen table and they will rise. Not so easy in the UK.

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Leave buns to rise

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Leave buns to rise

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Leave buns to rise covered

Then fry the buns until golden. Marie does two or three at a time.

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Fry the fricasee

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Remove from oil and set aside

Assembling the Tunisian Sandwich is a team effort. We had a bit of a production line going on.

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Fill the buns – bit of a production line going on here

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Takes a while to fill the buns

But worth the effort. Delicious.

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Tuck into Tunisian Sandwich inside a Fricasee