Dinner · 20 min · 2 pieces
Brik
Tunisian fried parcel without the fryer: dough, a runny egg, tuna, lemon, parsley. The yolk should run. Don't scramble it inside.
The sheet · 2 pieces · 20 min
mediumWhy tonight. Tunisian fried parcel without the fryer: dough, a runny egg, tuna, lemon, parsley. The yolk should run. Don't scramble it inside.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- eggs
- tuna
- dough
- lemon
- parsley
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: capers.
Method
- The whole point is a runny yolk inside a crisp shell, and everything about the technique serves that.
- Filling cool and dry, spread to the edges with a well in the middle for the egg.
- Seal it properly and get it into hot oil immediately — a filled brik that stands around leaks.
- Under two minutes in the oil, one flip. Lemon at the table and eat it with your hands, carefully.
An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- tuna
- Canned in oil is a different ingredient from canned in water; the oil is flavor and should go into the dish, not the sink.
- dough
- Time is the ingredient. A slow cold rise builds flavor that no amount of yeast will fake, and most dough that tastes of nothing was simply rushed.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
- parsley
- Not a garnish, a green note.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
Shares eggs, parsley, lemon
Herb yogurt eggs
Sauce is yogurt and herbs, not mayo.
Shares tuna, lemon
Caper lemon tuna
The can, capers, lemon, oil. It should taste briny and bright, not like cafeteria tuna.
Shares parsley, lemon
Herb caper sauce
Spoon on fish, beans, or eggs.
Shares tuna, lemon
Tuna chickpea salad
Two cans, no heat. Lemon and oil are the dressing. Onion if you want bite. It should be lunch, not a mush.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.