Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, tripolitan meat pies (lahmeh baajin). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tripolitan meat pies (lahmeh baajin) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Tripolitan meat pies (lahmeh baajin) is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
The meat pie recipe we're featuring here is the recipe that mom makes at home. Apparently it can be made differently but we LOVE this version! It's the flat open one that you could also find in most Lebanese bakeries.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook tripolitan meat pies (lahmeh baajin) using 22 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Tripolitan meat pies (lahmeh baajin):
- Take 5 Cups flour
- Take 1 tbsp salt
- Take 1 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 1 egg
- Prepare 1.5 dl or 150ml vegetable oil or sunflower oil
- Prepare 2 cups lucke warm water(as needed)
- Make ready For dough preparation
- Get 1 and half cup corn flour
- Make ready 1 cup vegetable oil
- Take Half cup margarine
- Make ready Half cup butter
- Prepare Filling
- Prepare 1 kilogram meat (preferable type)
- Get 2 chopped onions
- Take 1 parsley
- Take 1 tbs dried mint
- Get 3 tbs apple vinegar
- Prepare 5 tbs tahina/sesame paste
- Prepare 5 tbs pomegranate molasses
- Prepare 2 tbs yogurt
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 tsp 7 spices
Take about a few tablespoons of the meat filling and place on the dough and spread out thinly but enough so the dough is fully covered. Place pizzas on the prepared baking sheet, but do not overcrowd. How to make Lahme Bi Ajeen / Meat Pizza (Assyrian Food) Assyrian Dishes, Assyrian Food, Assyrian Recipes, Assyrian Cooking Lahme Bajin, Lahmacun, Lahme Bi Ajeen, Laham B'Ajeen, Lahmajoun Full. It serves several pies besides Lahem Bi Ajeen.
Steps to make Tripolitan meat pies (lahmeh baajin):
- In a deep pot sift corn flour then add sugar and salt and mix them together
- Rub the corn flour with eggs and vegetbale oil
- Cut the dough into equal round pieces(hand grip size)
- Gradually pour water with constant kneading untill we have a soft dough
- Cover the dough with clean piece of fabric or nylon wrap let it rest for an hour
- On a wide clean solid place sprinkle the flour and dib the balls on both sides to cover them with corn flour
- Spread dough on a cotton towel and cover them
- Meanwhile mix vegetbale oil and margarine on gaz tap few seconds so they become warm
- 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.
- 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.
- Put the prepared dough in the oven trays and keep them until we prepare the topping.
- 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.
- Take the pan off the heat and add the parsley and the mint.
- Leave to cool down and add apple vinegar, sesame paste, pomegranate molasses and yogurt
- 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.
- 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.
- Made by: Tala Odaymat
These include spinach filled pies, vegetable filled pies, meat and potato filled pies, and Zaatar topped pies. The spinach filled pie is a sealed pie. Its dough looks a little thicker than the one used to make Lahem Bi Ajeen. Zaatar topped pies, on the other hand, use the same dough as Lahem Bi Ajeen. The recipe I decided to prepare today has two names: lahm bi ajin (or lahm bi ajeen) in Lebanese dialect or sfiha in Arabic.
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