Lebanese Meat Pies- Salt & Sweet

Lahm bi Ajeen is a very fashionable Lebanese meat pies with a lot of taste. It is principally a flatbread topped with a wealthy, heat spiced floor beef, tomato and onion combination. Serve these Lebanese meat pies with yogurt, a easy salad  soup or hummus.  The leftovers are freezer pleasant too!

Lebanese Meat Pies- Lahm Bi Ajeen:

Lahm bi Ajeen, often known as lahm b ajeen, lahem bi ajeen or sfeeha, are often described as Middle Eastern meat pizza. Its is one other sort of the various fashionable Manakish recipes in Middle Eastern delicacies.

This sort of manakish (Meat Pies) is topped with spiced beef combination, some consult with it as “meat in dough”. Other kinds of manakish embrace: Spinach Pies, Za’atar Manakish, and Cheese Manakish.

Lebanese Meat Pies, nonetheless is considered one of my household’s most favourite kinds of manakish. Ever. Savory filling. Perfection with every chew. My youngsters love them of their lunch packing containers!

Ingredients:

For the Dough:

• Flour: I take advantage of bread flour.
• Milk- heat
• Instant yeast
• Sugar- 2 tablespoons solely
• Salt
• Vegetable oil
• Plain yogurt

For Lahm bi Ajeen Topping

• Ground beef
• Onion- diced
• Tomatoes- diced
• Salt
• Ground all spice
• Ground black pepper
• Ground cinnamon
• Pine nuts- for topping (elective)

Lebanese Meat Pies- Manakish Dough:

Making the dough from scratch is easy and places these meat pies excessive. The home made dough on this recipe is excellent and simple to arrange. The dough recipe is much like that utilized in my my zaatar and cheese manakish recipe.

However, in the event you don’t have the time to arrange home made dough, you need to use ready-made pizza dough or frozen rolls as a substitute.

The secret substances to the most effective manakish dough is Greek yogurt!

Lahm bi Ajeen Topping:

The topping of those meat pies is a mix of floor beef, diced onions, diced tomatoes, floor cinnamon, floor black pepper, floor all spice and salt. I take advantage of my meals processor to mix my onions and tomatoes, then I combine all of it along with the meat and spices.

Shaping Lebanese Meat Pies:

Lebanese meat pies may be formed in many alternative methods, however I discover this manner straightforward to make. I type my home made dough into 14-16 small balls and allow them to relaxation on a floured floor lined with kitchen towel for half-hour earlier than shaping.

After resting:

• Flatten the dough balls on a floured floor into small circles together with your fingertips. They will probably be about 5 inches in diameter.

• Press on each together with your fingertips to sculpt little dips for the topping to take a seat in.
• Add about 2 tablespoons of the meat topping in the midst of every flattened circle, depart a 1 inch border round.

• Fold the one inch border of dough over the meat filling and pinch the sting throughout to from a thick border.

• Add a number of pine nuts to the middle of the meat pie ( elective).
• Arrange meat pies on the greased baking sheet tray.

Storing and Freezing Lebanese Meat Pies:

If you will have any Lahm bi Ajeen leftovers, simply pop it within the fridge in an hermetic container, it’ll hold for as much as 4 days. Reheat within the oven, air fryer toaster or microwave.

These meat pies are additionally freezer pleasant, retailer in an hermetic, freezer-safe container for as much as 3 months. Defrost within the fridge in a single day earlier than reheating and serving.

Other Amazing Lebanese Manakish:

Zaatar manakish

Cheese Manakish

Lebanese Spinach Pies

In the meantime…go forward and make these superb Lebanese Meat Pies- Lahm bi Ajeen!

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