Recipe: Tasty Syrian meat pie: Safiha

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Syrian meat pie: Safiha. Grease a half sheet bakers pan with melted butter. Create a border around the dough to hold the mixture in place during cooking and for aesthetics. Saute the onion until translucent then add the meat and brown.

Put one tblp of meat mixture on dough circle seeing that a cube is in each spoon.

Bring the edges up and press to make a square.

Arrange meat pastries in a tray brushed with butter.

You can have Syrian meat pie: Safiha using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Syrian meat pie: Safiha

1. You need of Dough.

2. Prepare 3 1/2 cups of flour.

3. You need 2 1/2 teaspoons of yeast.

4. It’s 1 teaspoon of sugar.

5. You need 1 teaspoon of salt.

6. You need 1 teaspoon of olive oil.

7. You need of Filling.

8. Prepare 500 g of ground meat.

9. You need 1/2 cup of labneh, thick yogurt.

10. Prepare 1 teaspoon of pomegranate syrup.

11. It’s 1 of onion, minced.

12. Prepare 5/16 cup of raw pine nuts.

13. You need 1 teaspoon of salt.

14. You need 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper.

15. You need 1/2 teaspoon of saffron.

16. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of allspice.

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Safiha (Mini Meat Pies) A favorite appetizer party dish, both flavorful and easy to make.

Traditionally it is round-shaped like a saucer, but this is a very easy recipe that tastes exactly the same.

Syrian meat pie: Safiha step by step

1. For the dough, mix the yeast with the sugar in half cup warm water and leave aside for 5 minutes..

2. In a big bowl, mix the flour and salt..

3. Add in the yeast mix, the oil and 3/4 cup warm water. Knead well with wet hands till the dough you obtain is smooth..

4. Cover the dough with a cloth and leave to rise in a warm place until it doubles in volume (around 2 ½ hours)..

5. Knead the dough again with floury hands and divide the dough into 6 balls and leave to rise for 30 minutes..

6. Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough balls into circles or oval shaped flat dough pieces (around 15cm in diameter each).

7. Place the flattened dough pieces on baking sheets and, for the last time, cover with a cloth and let rise for 30 minutes..

8. For the filling, in bowl, mix the meat, onion and pine nuts, season with all spices, saffron, black pepper, and salt. Finally add the pomegranate syrup and the labneh. Mix well..

9. Spread around 3 tablespoons of the filling on each flattened piece of dough..

10. Arrange in a baking tray and bake in a preheated oven to 475°F for 15 minutes, till the dough is brown and the meat is cooked..

11. Serve warm with yogurt on the side..

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.

It can be simply called Lebanese Meat Pie, or sometimes they use the Arabic name in various spellings like Lahmajun.

A little meat pie; made extraordinary by the folks in Baalbeck (the number one tourist destination in Lebanon, site of incredible Roman temples).