# Cheesy Birria Arayes

A delicious and cheesy twist on traditional Arayes, featuring a birria-spiced ground beef filling inside pita bread, grilled to perfection.

- Total time: 10 min
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- birria chili
- hot water
- olive oil
- onion
- garlic
- oregano
- paprika
- cumin
- 85 parts ground beef
- salt
- pita bread
- Jibneh cheese
- birria spice rub

## Instructions

1. Grab the birria chilies, rip off the stem, and remove all seeds.
2. Toss the peppers into a bowl and submerge them with hot water, letting them wake up for about 10 minutes.
3. Oil up a hot pan.
4. Toast down some onion and garlic in the pan.
5. Quickly throw the toasted onion and garlic into a blender cup.
6. Add the hydrated chilies to the blender cup.
7. Season with oregano, paprika, and cumin.
8. Blitz the ingredients until a nice paste is formed.
9. Add salt to the 85/15 ground beef in a bowl.
10. Throw in the birria marinade paste and massage it all in.
11. Grab the pita bread.
12. Cut the pita bread in half the short way.
13. Open up the pita to make a pocket.
14. Grab the meat and shove it into the pocket.
15. Flatten out the meat to make a decently thin layer.
16. Optionally stuff each one with some Jibneh cheese.
17. Mix the birria spice rub with a little bit of oil.
18. Brush the spiced oil onto the arayes and toast on a grill pan.
19. Brush the other side of the arayes with spiced oil and continue toasting.

## Equipment

- plate
- bowl
- kettle
- pan
- wooden spoon
- blender cup
- immersion blender
- grill pan
- brush
- knife

## Tips

- Ensure the meat layer is not too thick or too thin to prevent it from being raw in the middle.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOZaWt7DqP5/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/8bcad27b-0bd0-4ebb-97be-57c83766186f
- Extracted: 2025-10-14

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