Whether you serve it up for breakfast or an evening meal, fatteh is a great go-to dish for a quick meal. It’s also a perfect way to use up old pita or other bread that is going slightly stale. The dish has been around forever and several regions have variations. Levant, Egypt, and Palestine all have particular takes on a fatteh recipe. Why not try out these scrumptious recipes and see which one is your epitome of flavor?

Beef and Eggplant

Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson throws her hat into the fatteh recipe ring with this offering. It’s a well balanced take on the dish, packed with enough seasonings to make each element carry its flavor and not get lost to another component. The eggplant and the beef play particularly nicely off one another and the garnish of bright pomegranate seeds and pop of green mint add visual appeal. 

Photo Credit to Jez Kitchen

Lebanese Chicken Fatteh Dinner Bowls

The Mediterranean Dish food blog takes a bit of a twist on the traditional Lebanese preparation which includes rice. All the usual spice and flavor profiles are there, but this  fatteh recipe adds a Mediterranean salad to top it all off. The cool crunchy cucumber is a natural win with the garlicky yogurt sauce. Definitely nomnomnom-able!

Photo Credit to The Mediterranean Dish

Shrimp and Eggplant

Olive Meets Coconut shares this iteration of Fatteh, which does pare down the spice factor a bit. No cardamom, cinnamon, or cloves here! However, being short on spices does not mean it is short on taste. The eggplant here is roasted, deepening the flavor and the crushed chili flakes help to give the dish a little zing!

Photo Credit to Olive Meets Coconut

Thanksgiving Fatteh

Over at Cardamom And Tea they are making a very veggie heavy fatteh. Skip the meat and load up on brussels sprouts, sweet potato, and celery for your toppings.  The end result is a plate of food that almost looks too good to eat.

Photo Credit to Cardamom And Tea

Egyptian Style With Lamb

Like most Lebanese versions of fatteh, Egyptian variations typically use rice as an ingredient as well. This recipe skips the usual yogurt sauce and uses a tomato sauce instead. Egyptian brown bread is also a popular substitute for pita. If you don’t dig lamb, feel free to substitute with beef stew cubes.

Photo Credit to Flocker

Dates Fatteh

And now for the bonus round! This dessert version uses baked pie crust strips instead of pita and date spread with a garnish of walnuts. Our advice? Substitute a dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of ice cream to take the place of yogurt in a savory fatteh recipe. It may be a bit of a stretch to call it fatteh, but we’ll take it!