Tripolitan meat pies (lahmeh baajin)

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Meat tough is a lebanese traditional food veryyy delicious. I highly recommend you all to try it😊🤤

Tripolitan meat pies (lahmeh baajin)

Meat tough is a lebanese traditional food veryyy delicious. I highly recommend you all to try it😊🤤

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Ingredients

  1. 5 Cupsflour
  2. 1 tbspsalt
  3. 1 tbspsugar
  4. 1egg
  5. 1.5 dlor 150ml vegetable oil or sunflower oil
  6. 2 cupslucke warm water(as needed)
  7. For dough preparation
  8. 1and half cup corn flour
  9. 1 cupvegetable oil
  10. Halfcup margarine
  11. Halfcup butter
  12. Filling
  13. 1 kilogrammeat (preferable type)
  14. 2chopped onions
  15. 1parsley
  16. 1 tbsdried mint
  17. 3 tbsapple vinegar
  18. 5 tbstahina/sesame paste
  19. 5 tbspomegranate molasses
  20. 2 tbsyogurt
  21. 1 tspsalt
  22. 1 tsp7 spices

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    In a deep pot sift corn flour then add sugar and salt and mix them together

  2. 2

    Rub the corn flour with eggs and vegetbale oil

  3. 3

    Cut the dough into equal round pieces(hand grip size)

  4. 4

    Gradually pour water with constant kneading untill we have a soft dough

  5. 5

    Cover the dough with clean piece of fabric or nylon wrap let it rest for an hour

  6. 6

    On a wide clean solid place sprinkle the flour and dib the balls on both sides to cover them with corn flour

  7. 7

    Spread dough on a cotton towel and cover them

  8. 8

    Meanwhile mix vegetbale oil and margarine on gaz tap few seconds so they become warm

  9. 9

    Wipe your hands and the place where you are going to roll out the dough then spread a little bit of the oil mixture and take one ball and stretch it with your hands as much as you can until it becomes very thin.

  10. 10

    Hold it from the sides and stretch it using two fingers until it has the form of a circle.
    Another way is to stretch the dough in a rectangle way with your hands as much as u can until it becomes thin and then fold it from the sides to become a square.

  11. 11

    Put the prepared dough in the oven trays and keep them until we prepare the topping.

  12. 12

    For topping:In a pan put a little bit of oil and put the meat, stir it and then add the onions and wait until it becomes tender and the meat change in colour, now add the spices and salt and leave it until well cooked.

  13. 13

    Take the pan off the heat and add the parsley and the mint.

  14. 14

    Leave to cool down and add apple vinegar, sesame paste, pomegranate molasses and yogurt

  15. 15

    With your hands press the dough and then add about 1 tbsp of the prepared topping, decorate with row pine nuts, press again with hands to make it firm.

  16. 16

    Bake them in a preheated oven (in a medium heat oven about 350 F or 180 C) until the dough turns lightly brown and fully cooked.
    Serve hot.

  17. 17

    Made by: Tala Odaymat

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