Meat pastries recipe

Recipe for meat pastries in our easy arab recipes collection.

Recipe ingredients

• Basic dough recipe, exclude oil and add 1 teaspoon yeast dissolved in 1/4 cup water
• 16 ounces ground lamb meat
• 32 ounces firm tomatoes, finely chopped
• 5 medium onions, finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt
• A dash of: ground cayenne red pepper, ground cinnamon and ground allspice
• 2 tablespoons butter, diced
• 2 tablespoons yoghurt
• 1 tablespoons sesame paste, Tahinah
• 1 tablespoon pomegranate thickened juice, if available
• 4 tablespoons fried pine nuts

How to make meat pastries

• Mix well meat, tomatoes, onion and spices.
• Add yoghurt, sesame paste and pomegranate.
• Mix all with fried pine nuts. Add butter.
• Divide dough into walnut size balls.
• Roll between hand palms to smooth.
• Roll out balls with a rolling pin to form 8 cm diameter circles.
• Put one tablespoon 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.
• Bake in a moderate heat oven for 30 minutes or till dough is golden and meat is cooked.
• Serve hot with yoghurt.

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