Sabich (Vegetable and Pita Sandwich)
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.
Source and licence
"Sabich (Vegetable and Pita Sandwich)" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Sabich_(Vegetable_and_Pita_Sandwich), revision 4518279), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Sabich_(Vegetable_and_Pita_Sandwich)&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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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
Method
- Put the tomatoes, cucumber, onion, and parsley in a bowl.
- Take another small bowl and mix the lemon juice, oil, and salt.
- Pour the dressing over the vegetables and toss well, leave it to stand for a couple of minutes.
- 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.
- Spread the hummus evenly in each pita bread
- Stuff the pitas with the slices of fried eggplants and the boiled eggs.
- Spoon over some of the Israeli salad, drizzle the tahini and amba over the pitas, and serve.