← Nouns Cooking · Malaysian & Singaporean

Ingredients

• 500 g bread flour or plain flour
• 1 Eggs
• 1 tbsp Condensed milk
• 40 g ghee or butter, melted
• 1 tsp Salt
• 280 ml water
• 150 ml oil, for soaking the dough balls
• 500 g Minced beef
• 2 Onion, chopped
• 3 cloves Garlic, chopped
• 2 tbsp meat curry powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 6 eggs
• 4 Spring onion, sliced
• 3 tbsp ghee, for frying
• 1 Red onion, sliced and mixed with 1 tbsp vinegar and a pinch of sugar

Method

1. Mix the flour, egg, condensed milk, melted ghee and salt, then add the water gradually and knead for 10 min until very smooth and soft. Divide into 6 balls, put them in a tray, pour the oil over to coat and cover. Rest for at least 4 hours, or overnight in the fridge (bring back to room temperature before stretching).
2. For the filling, cook the beef with half the onion, the garlic, curry powder and salt in a dry pan over medium-high heat for 8–10 min until browned and dry. Cool, then mix in the rest of the onion and the spring onion.
3. Oil a large clean worktop. Press a dough ball flat, then stretch it out gently with your fingertips, lifting and pulling from the edges, until it is about 50 cm across and almost see-through. Small holes do not matter.
4. Heat a large flat griddle or frying pan over medium heat with 1 tbsp ghee. Beat one egg with a sixth of the beef mix and pour it into the middle of the stretched dough, spreading it into a 20 cm square.
5. Fold the four sides of the dough over the filling to make a parcel, then lift it carefully onto the hot pan, seam side down. Cook for 4–5 min per side, pressing with a spatula, until crisp, golden and the egg inside is set.
6. Repeat with the rest. Cut into squares and serve hot with the pickled onion and a little curry gravy for dipping.

Tips

• The long oily rest relaxes the gluten so the dough stretches without tearing. Short on time? Use frozen roti paratha dough, thawed and rolled thin.
• Contains wheat, egg and dairy. Use chicken mince for murtabak ayam, cooked until no pink remains.

Sources

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