Main Meals

2-ingredient Lahmajeen

4
Easy
15 minutes
15 minutes

File this as: the perfect meal for Iftar. Zaynab Paruk shares her clever recipe for easy Lahmajeen (or Arab-style meat on bread) using Woolies Halaal dhania lamb burgers. Add a zingy little salad and you’re good to go in under 30 minutes.

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Ingredients

Method
  • 4 Woolworths Halaal dhania lamb burgers  
  • 4 Woolworths large pitas  
  • olive oil, for frying
  • 1 red onion, thinly sliced  
  • 1 t sumac
  • 1 T mint 
  • 1 t parsley 
  • 1 t olive oil
  • salt, to taste 
  • For the dressing:  

  • 1 T Woolworths tahini  
  • 1 lemon, juiced  
  • 4 – 5 T red chilli paste or harissa paste
  • ¼ t honey
  • salt, to taste 

Method

Ingredients

1. Slice open the pita breads and spread half a patty on one half of each pita and press into the bread. Fry in olive oil until crispy and the meat is cooked.

2. Make a salad with the remaining ingredients. To make the dressing, whisk the tahini and lemon juice until creamy, the add the chilli or harissa paste and salt.

3. To serve spoon the salad onto the cooked patties and pitas and drizzle over the dressing.

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Photographer: Jan Ras
Videographer: Romy Wilson
Food assistant: Bianca Jones
Stylist: Khanya Mzongwana

Zaynab Paruk

Recipe by: Zaynab Paruk

Zaynab Paruk is a food content creator who shares quick-and-easy cooking and baking recipes. Follow her on @zaynabparuk on TikTok or @zaynab_paruk on Instagram

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