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Type | Meat pie |
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Place of origin | Levant |
Region or state | Lebanon,Syria,Jordan,Israel,Palestine,Iraq,Egypt,Yemen |
Main ingredients | Meat,spinach,cheese orza'atar |
Fatayer (Standard Arabic:فطائر,romanized: faṭāʾir;Levantine Arabic:فطاير,romanized: faṭāyir;sg.فطيرة,faṭīra) aremeat pies that can alternatively be stuffed withspinach orcheese such asfeta orakkawi.[1] They are part ofLevantine cuisine and are eaten inLebanon,Syria,Palestine,Jordan,Iraq,Egypt,Kuwait,Saudi Arabia, andYemen.[citation needed] Fatayer are also popular inArgentina, where they are considered a variety ofempanada under the nameempanadas árabes (sg.empanada árabe), and inBrazil, where they are known asesfihas fechadas ("closedsfihas", sg.esfiha fechada).[citation needed]
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