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    Home » Baking » Moroccan batbout & batbout moamer

    Moroccan batbout & batbout moamer

    Published: Apr 22, 2014 · Modified: Jan 21, 2018 by Amira · This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission.

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    Batbout is a kind of flat bread that is really has a strange name because, you see,  in Arabic language Battah is the duck so does this bread makes you look like a duck!! 🙂 which is in our culture a couch potato !!! I have no idea, but what I know for sure is that this bread turned out grrrrrreat. You can make this plain with only one layer of dough and this case it is called Batbout.

    A close up of a round bread
    A close up of a sandwich stuffed with meat

    Or put some meat stuffing in the middle of two layers and in this case called Batbout Moamer.

    A close up of sandwiches stuffed with meat

    Batbout is also called Mekhmar and the stuffed one is called Mekhmar Moamer.

    A close up of bread on a plate

    It is very soft and chewy from the inside. I really liked working with this dough as it should be very very sticky, which was fun for me as I've had some little hands helping along too :). I expected this to be more like the Pita bread but it has a totally different feeling in your mouth.

    This bread is made by flattening an all purpose flour sticky dough in a bed of fine semolina... really cool. You can stuff this with almost anything, traditionally ground meat, but we did not mind stuffing it with left over chicken. I'm thinking of mixing the east with the west next time and go Mexican by stuffing it with some beans and chillies, I bet it is going to rock. You can eat it plain with honey,butter,jam , cheese and so on. So let your imagination go wild in this one, it is very forgiving and will trun out fantastic with almost anything in your mind.

    Here is a video - I've tried to make it as short as possible - that shows ingredients and steps for making Batbout.


    Thanks for reading, have a wonderful day.
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    1. Mary Kurien

      March 23, 2021 at 7:53 am

      I enjoy reading your posts. The recipes are simple and easy to follow.
      Love Middle Eastern food. thanks for sharing.

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      • Amira

        March 23, 2021 at 10:30 am

        Thank you Mary dor your sweet comment.

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    2. Monica

      May 08, 2014 at 1:34 pm

      I love learning something new and I have a feeling I'd learn a lot here. This flatbread, whatever anyone wants to call it, looks so delicious! I'd love it with or without filling! At first, I thought they were English muffins but now I see it is so much more...

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