🇱🇧 Lebanon
Sfiha Baalbakiyeh
Baalbek's pride: small square pies pinched at the corners, the meat still blushing with pomegranate.
🔪 Prep: 40 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Hand-pinched squares, lamb with tail fat, yogurt and pomegranate molasses in the meat.
Ingredients
- 500 gflour
- 1 tspyeast
- 400 gground lamb with fat
- 2 tomatoes, drained fine dice
- 2 tbspyogurt
- 1 tbsppomegranate molasses
- 1 tspseven-spice and Aleppo pepper
Method
- 1
Make a soft leavened dough; rest until doubled.
- 2
Mix the raw lamb with tomato, yogurt, molasses, and spices.
- 3
Flatten small rounds, top with meat, pinch four corners into squares.
- 4
Bake on a scorching stone until the rims char lightly.
- 5
Eat hot with laban ayran and a squeeze of lemon.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6