Fatai (Lebanese Meat Pies)
Fatai (Lebanese Meat Pies)

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, fatai (lebanese meat pies). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Fatai (Lebanese Meat Pies) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Fatai (Lebanese Meat Pies) is something which I have loved my whole life.

While I got religion with the coarse grind, raw, for the Lebanese sfeha recipe in my cookbook (can't wait to share it with you in March!), those are open-faced and I hadn't tried the raw in my fatayar, for fear of the pies opening up, the meat clumping. In a separate bowl, mix the ground meat, lemon juice, salt, and pepper and mix it together. An easy version of a traditional Middle Eastern meat pie made with grass-fed beef, onions and a blend of common spices. Fatayer is an easy gateway recipe to Middle Eastern food.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fatai (lebanese meat pies) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Fatai (Lebanese Meat Pies):
  1. Get For the dough
  2. Get 480 ml Plain flour
  3. Get 120 ml + 1 tablespoon Lukewarm water
  4. Prepare 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
  5. Get 1 tsp Salt
  6. Get 1/2 tsp Dried yeast
  7. Prepare Filling
  8. Prepare 400 grams Ground beef
  9. Make ready 1 large Potato
  10. Prepare 1 small Onion
  11. Prepare 1/2 tsp each Salt and pepper
  12. Get 3 tbsp Lemon juice

Lebanese Meat Pies Lebanese Meat Pies, otherwise known as Sfeehas, are triangles of bread dough that are baked with a rich, warm flavored ground beef mixture. Serve your meat pies with yogurt, hummus and a tabbouleh salad. The leftovers freeze great for later! Traditionally sfeeha are made with the best lamb meat though of course you can make them with beef too, or a mixture of both.

Instructions to make Fatai (Lebanese Meat Pies):
  1. Put the dough ingredients into a bowl and knead well. Once smooth, divide into 12-14 portions, roll into balls, and let rest.
  2. Cut the potatoes into small pieces and finely shop the onions. In a separate bowl, mix the ground meat, lemon juice, salt, and pepper and mix it together.
  3. Put a teaspoon of Step 2 on a small plate and heat it up in the microwave to taste-test. Adjust the seasonings as needed.
  4. Roll out Step 1 into round discs, then top with 1.5 tablespoon of the filling from Step 2. Shape the filling into a triangle.
  5. Fold up the sides to create a triangle. Leave the center open. Transfer to a baking sheet.
  6. Bake in an oven warmed to 200℃ for 12 minutes until lightly browned.

The leftovers freeze great for later! Traditionally sfeeha are made with the best lamb meat though of course you can make them with beef too, or a mixture of both. The meat is mixed with a little tomato and onion and some black pepper and seven spice to enhance the flavour. Fatayer is a Middle Eastern meat pie that is filled with either meat and pine nuts, spinach or cheese (such as feta.) Part of the Levantine cuisine, fatayer is eaten in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and stir in the ground beef and ground lamb, chopped onion, pine nuts, cinnamon, and salt and black pepper.

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