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Sabich (Vegetable and Pita Sandwich)

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Sabich is a popular Israeli sandwich based on what Iraqi Jews ate on Sabbath morning, featuring fried eggplant, boiled potato, and hard-boiled egg. Instead of serving the ingredients on a tray, as was traditional, sabich stuffs everything in a pita.

Ingredients

  • 2 tomatoes, cored and chopped
  • ½ ea. cucumber, chopped
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 tbsp minced parsley
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • Salt
  • 1 eggplant, sliced into 1 cm rounds
  • 4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and sliced
  • Vegetable oil, for frying
  • 4 pita breads
  • ¾ cup hummus
  • ½ cup tahini
  • Amba sauce

Instructions

  1. 1
    Put the tomatoes, cucumber, onion, and parsley in a bowl.
  2. 2
    Take another small bowl and mix the lemon juice, oil, and salt.
  3. 3
    Pour the dressing over the vegetables and toss well, leave it to stand for a couple of minutes.
  4. 4
    Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high temperature. When the oil has become hot enough, fry the eggplant slices until they turn golden brown. Place the golden eggplant slices on a paper towel to remove the excess oil.
  5. 5
    Spread the hummus evenly in each pita bread
  6. 6
    Stuff the pitas with the slices of fried eggplants and the boiled eggs.
  7. 7
    Spoon over some of the Israeli salad, drizzle the tahini and amba over the pitas, and serve.
Category
Beverages

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Sabich_(Vegetable_and_Pita_Sandwich)