Open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen
Open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen. Lahm bi ajeen can be shaped in many different ways, flat like a pizza being the most popular version. At bakeries in Lebanon, I would find large personal-pizza Another popular version known as "sfiha" in Arabic.

Open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen:
  1. Get - For the dough:
  2. Make ready 8 cups flour
  3. Prepare 2 tablespoons dried yeast dissolved in ½ cup warm water
  4. Prepare 3 1/2 cups water
  5. Make ready 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  6. Get 1 teaspoon salt
  7. Make ready 1 teaspoon sugar
  8. Take - For the meat mixture:
  9. Get 1 kg finely ground beef
  10. Get 1 kg onions, finely chopped
  11. Get 2 kg tomatoes, finely chopped
  12. Prepare 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  13. Make ready 1 green pepper, finely chopped
  14. Prepare 3 cloves garlic
  15. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
  16. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon hot red pepper powder
  17. Get 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  18. Prepare 2 tablespoons pomegranate syrup, if available

It's the flat open one that you could Our meat pie recipe is easy to make especially if you use pre-made flat bread or thin-crust pizza. Lebanese sfeeha or sometime called lahm bi ajeen, which basically means lamb in dough, are amazing little meat pies that full of flavor and simply delicious. The dough is basically like a pizza dough and they are either served open face like a mini pizza or sometimes the meat is wrapped within the. See recipes for Open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen too.

Steps to make Open-faced meat pies - lahem bi ajeen:
  1. Mix well all the dough ingredients together, except the vegetable oil.
  2. Add in the oil gradually while mixing the ingredients by hand. Continue kneading until you get a firm dough. Don't hesitate to add some more water if needed.
  3. Cover the dough with a kitchen cloth and leave it to rest for about 2 hr 30 min in a warm place until it rises and doubles in size.
  4. Knead the dough again after dipping your hands in flour, and divide it into balls the size of a golf ball. Leave it to rest for 30 more minutes.
  5. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough balls in a round shape, about 12 cm diameter and 1 mm thickness.
  6. To prepare the meat mixture: put all the ingredients together and mix well.
  7. Spread 2 tablespoons of the mixture on the surface of each dough piece.
  8. Slightly grease two oven trays with olive oil and place the lahem bi ajeen on them. Bake in the oven at medium heat for about 20 min or until the bottom of the dough turn lightly brown and the meat is well cooked.
  9. Serve warm with plain yogurt or with laban ayran, a salty yogurt drink.
  10. Note: You can find the recipe of 'Salty yogurt drink' in my profile

Lahm bi ajeen is usually described as Middle Eastern meat pizza, but there are some ways that the comparison doesn't begin to do justice to lahm bi ajeen's unique flavor. Pomegranate molasses is the true star of this recipe. This recipe is adapted from Kris Khoury's. Lebanese Meat Pies Recipe - Lahm bi Ajeen - Lahmajun. Turkish Meat Pies with Arabic spice mix, mint and pine nuts.

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