Type | Meat pie |
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Place of origin | Levant |
Region or state | Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen |
Main ingredients | Meat, spinach, cheese or za'atar |
Fatayer ( Standard Arabic: فطائر, romanized: faṭāʾir; Levantine Arabic: فطاير, romanized: faṭāyir; sg. فطيرة, faṭīra) are meat pies that can alternatively be stuffed with spinach or cheese such as feta or akkawi. [1] They are part of Levantine cuisine and are eaten in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.[ citation needed] Fatayer are also popular in Argentina, where they are considered a variety of empanada under the name empanadas árabes (sg. empanada árabe)[ citation needed], and in Brazil where they are known as esfihas fechadas, or "closed sfihas".