Jujey's Laham Bi Ajeen (Meat Pies)!
>> Monday, January 11, 2010
I usually make these just with meat, salt, pepper, parsley, tomatoes and onions, but I wanted to try something different, so I spent half the day yesterday looking all over the net for recipes. I found one, that I thought might be ok, but i didn't like everything that it called for, so instead I used my imagination, and here is what I came up with.....it was sooooooooo delicious!!
JUJEY'S LAHAM BI AJEEN
Dough
1 cup warm water
2.5 tsp instant yeast
1 tbsp of sugar or honey
1 cup milk or laban
1/4 cup canola oil
1 tsp salt
1 egg
4-5 cups of flour
Meat Mixture
1 cup of minced meat
1 small tomato
1 medium onion
1 garlic clove
half of a small green pepper
jalapeno pepper (i only used a little of it, so it wasn't too spicey)
2 tbsp of tomato paste
1/8 tsp of arabic mixed spices
salt and pepper to taste
To make dough, mix warm water, sugar and yeast, and let sit for 10 minutes to proof.
Mix in rest of ingredients and kneed dough until soft, cover and let rise until double.
To make the meat mixture, chop up tomato, onion, garlic, green pepper, jalapeno pepper and add to meat, with tomato paste, mixed spices, salt and pepper.
Flaten dough and cut into circles, place into greased baking sheet. Once on the baking sheet, spead meat mixture ontop evenly.
Bake at 425 for 10 minutes or until dough starts to turn a light brown.
2 comments:
Jujey, I made this exactly as you posted it...it turned out awesome...I made too much dough though, when my meat mixture was finished, I made some with zaatar/olive oil, some with feta cheese. I still had dough left over, so I put it in plastic bag in fridge and 2 days later I made some with spinach/onion. My absolute favourite was when my cousin made a cinnamon/sugar/brown sugar mix and rolled them up into pinwheels. THANK YOU for the recipe.
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