Mafrum
Potato pockets filled with spiced minced beef, fried and then simmered in tomato sauce until the potato gives way.
What it costs to cook
from ₪6.40 a serving
- Rami Levy~₪6.40/serving₪38.39 for the whole dishcheapest
- Keshet Teamim~₪6.48/serving₪38.86 for the whole dish
- Carrefour~₪6.56/serving₪39.36 for the whole dish
- Shufersal~₪6.70/serving₪40.19 for the whole dish
- Yochananof~₪6.77/serving₪40.64 for the whole dish
- Victory~₪7.57/serving₪45.40 for the whole dish
- Tiv Taam~₪8.51/serving₪51.06 for the whole dish
- Mahsanei HaShuk~₪9.73/serving₪58.37 for the whole dish
- Hazi Hinam~₪10.44/serving₪62.63 for the whole dish
- Osher Ad~₪11.56/serving₪69.36 for the whole dish
ℹ How we count
Chain prices as of 15 October 2026. Only what goes into the dish is counted, not the rest of the pack, at the price most of the chain's branches charge. Not counted: salt, black pepper, and water.
Ingredients
filling
sauce
Nutrition per serving
- 442
- kcal
- 22.6
- protein, g
- 19
- fat, g
- 45.9
- carbs, g
Leaves out what goes in to taste and any ingredient whose weight is not known.
Method
- 1
Cut each potato across into two thick slices and hollow a pocket in the cut face of each, leaving a shell about a centimetre thick.
- 2
Mix the beef with the onion, garlic, parsley, egg, breadcrumbs, cinnamon, salt and pepper until it holds together.
- 3
Pack the filling into each pocket and press it flush with the potato.
- 4
Dredge the filled faces in flour and then in beaten egg.
- 5
Fry the potatoes in hot oil on the filled side first until a crust forms. Work in batches and turn them once.
- 6
Whisk the tomato paste, paprika and turmeric into the water and pour it into a wide pot.
- 7
Stand the mafrum in the sauce with the carrot around them. The liquid should come halfway up.
- 8
Cover and simmer on low until a knife goes through the potato without resistance.
