Sfiha bil lahem

Serves: 2
Prep time: 20mins
Cooking time: 30mins

Ingredients

For the dough

1. Dry Yeast Powder - 10g
2. Warm Water - 1 cup
3. Sugar - 1tsp
4. Olive oil - 2 tbsp
5. Flour - 3 cups
6. Ground Lamb Meat - 1/2kg
7. Finely Choped Firm Tomatoes - 1kg
8. Finely Choped medium size Onions - 5
9. Salt - to taste
10. Pepper - to taste
11. Ground Cinnamon - a pinch
12. Ground allspice - a pinch
13. Yoghurt - 2 tbsp
14. Tahini (Sesame Paste) - 1 tbsp
15. Pomegranate Juice - 1 tbsp (optional)
16. Toasted Pine nuts - 4 tbsp
17. Frozen and cut into cubes Butter - 2 tbsp
18. Chopped Lettuce - to serve

Directions

1. Soak Yeast and Sugar in water for 10minutes. Add Olive Oil. Mix in the flour, half a cup at a time. Knead into a dough.
2. For the filling, mix lamb, tomatoes, onion,spices,yoghurt, tahini, pomegranate juice and pine nuts together.
3. Divide the dough into walnut - sized balls. Roll out the dough to form circles with 8cm diameters.
4. Place one tbsp of the mixture in the centre of each dough circle and top with a daub of butter. Bring the edges up and pinch corners together to make a square like in the picture.
5. Arrange pastries on a greased tin. Bake at 180 degree celcius for 30 minutes or until dough is golden and meat is cooked.
6. Serve on a bed of lettuce.

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