🇲🇾 How to Make Murtabak

Craving Murtabak? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Murtabak at home, in about 40 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 4 balls of roti dough (see roti canai), or 8 sheets of spring roll pastry
• 300g minced beef or mutton
• 1 onion, finely chopped + 2 cloves garlic
• 2 tbsp curry powder
• 3 eggs, beaten, with 3 spring onions chopped in
• ghee for frying
• pickled onion and curry gravy to serve

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Fry the onion and garlic, add the mince and curry powder, and cook it until it is properly dry. Wet filling is what makes a murtabak collapse.
2. Let the filling cool completely before it goes anywhere near the pastry.
3. Stretch the dough thin on an oiled surface, the same way as roti canai.
4. Spoon the mince into the middle, pour over a quarter of the egg mixture, and fold the sides in like a letter. Seal the seams firmly or the egg finds the gap, escapes and burns.
5. Fry in ghee over medium heat, 3 min a side, pressing lightly with a spatula until both sides are crisp and the egg is set through.
6. Cut into squares and serve with pickled onions and a bowl of curry gravy to dip. A mamak stall staple, best eaten at an hour you would struggle to defend.