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| 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), and in Brazil, where they are known as esfihas fechadas ("closed sfihas", sg. esfiha fechada).[citation needed]
- ^ Labensky, Steven; Ingram, Gaye G.; Labensky, Sarah R. (2001). Webster's New World Dictionary of Culinary Arts. Prentice Hall. p. 166. ISBN 9780130264305.