Friday, August 7, 2009

Malawachitos

As you all should know, blackwifeo is away scrubbing her aura in Sinai. While she is away I'm left to care for the house. Today I am going to show you how to make the easiest of dinners. Its Mexican-Yemenite fusion food, invented by me. It takes exactly 5 minutes (not counting the horrible lines at the supermarket on a Thursday evening). I call these Malawachitos (combination malawach and burritos).

You start off with frozen Malawach. Malawach is a type of Yemenite pancake (all Yemenite food seems to be made of flour and butter/margarine). You can buy pretty good frozen ones and they come packed in this round container with thin leaves of plastic ensuring they will not stick to each other.
The only other ingredients are cheese and beans. Now the beans are an issue here in Israel. Finding canned black beans or pinto beans at your supermarket or health food shop can never be guaranteed. My kids, discovered the canned vegetarian Tzulent (hamin) above. Tzulent is a traditional sabbath dish. Basically you cook beans, grains (and meat) from before the start of the sabbath and this way the mush stays kosher. The canned stuff is basically inedible except in malawachitos. The cheese is just grated Mozzarella.
Using a heavy pan (heat it first, then turn the heat right down, they burn easily) cook one side of the malawach, usually for a few minutes, until it's light brown. Then flip it, dump some beans (or tzolent) and cheese a little off to one side. Then flip over half of the malawach (like an omelet).
Cook till it's nice and brown and crispy, then flip and cook the other side.

That's it. My kids love this.

1 comment:

mart said...

Great idea BPO. I use malawach to make walawachpizza. Just spread some pizza souce, cheese and whatever additions and throw it in the oven.

And I must say that after trying a gazzilion different types, the "Three Bakers" one pictured here is the best.