My Family Manaeesh -- Arabic/Islamic Cheese Spread for Bread
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Ready In: 25 mins
Serves: 10
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups white cheese (crumbled)
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed with
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4-1⁄2 teaspoon ground thyme
- 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts or 1⁄2 cup browned pine nuts
- 1⁄4 cup olive oil
Directions
- Combine all ingerdients and let sit 2-4 hours for flavor to develop.
- This can be made and spread on bread as is though is most commonly and traditionally placed onto the surface of a pita-type dough and pushed into the surface before baking. PLEASE DO NOT use feta cheese. It is not used and is far too salty for this.
- In Morocco we do not see pita breas so we use a bread like "MY ROUGH KHOUBZ" which is posted here on zaar.
- The thyme is used in some countries in up to 2 teaspoons It depends on your own tolerance for it and I like it as a forward flavor but not to overpower.
- You can use stor bought pita bread and place the cheese onto the top of that, pushing slightly so it stays on and bake in a 375 degree oven until hot, approximately 8-10 minutes.
- This makes approximately 2 cups of cheese mix.
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