Lebanese Meat Pies: Lahm bi Aajin
Lebanese Meat Pies: Lahm bi Aajin

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lebanese meat pies: lahm bi aajin. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lebanese meat pies: lahm bi aajin using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Meat Pies: Lahm bi Aajin:
  1. Take For the dough:
  2. Take 8 cups flour
  3. Prepare 2 tablespoons dried yeast, dissolved in 1/2 cup warm water
  4. Prepare 3 1/2 cups water
  5. Take 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  6. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
  7. Prepare 1 teaspoon sugar
  8. Make ready For the meat mixture:
  9. Prepare 1 kg finely ground beef
  10. Get 2 kg tomatoes, finely chopped
  11. Get 1 kg onions, finely chopped
  12. Take 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  13. Prepare 1 green pepper, finely chopped
  14. Prepare 3 cloves garlic
  15. Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
  16. Get 1/4 teaspoon hot red pepper powder
  17. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  18. Get 2 tablespoons pomegranate syrup, if available
Steps to make Lebanese Meat Pies: Lahm bi Aajin:
  1. Mix well all the dough ingredients together, except the vegetable oil.
  2. Add in the oil gradually while mixing the ingredients by hand. Continue kneading until you get a firm dough. Don’t hesitate to add some more water if needed.
  3. Cover the dough with a kitchen cloth and leave it to rest for about 2 hr 30 min in a warm place until it rises and doubles in size.
  4. Knead the dough again after dipping your hands in flour, and divide it into balls the size of a golf ball. Leave it to rest for 30 more minutes.
  5. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough balls in a round shape, about 12 cm diameter and 1 mm thickness.
  6. To prepare the meat mixture: put all the ingredients together and mix well.
  7. Spread 2 tablespoons of the mixture on the surface of each dough piece.
  8. Slightly grease two oven trays with olive oil and place the lahem bi ajeen on them. Bake in the oven at medium heat for about 20 min or until the bottom of the dough turn lightly brown and the meat is well cooked.
  9. Serve warm with plain yogurt or with laban ayran, a salty yogurt drink.

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