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Lahme bi Ajeen Recipe (flat meat pies)
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This is a great Mediterranean meat pie recipe that will impress your friends and can be served as an appetizer or main dish. Serve with yogurt or cucumber and tomato salad. Ingredients dough - see Dede’s easy dough recipe 1 lb ground beef 1/4 lb ground lamb 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 1 tsp Dede’s seven spices 1 tbs salt 1/2 cup finely chopped tomatoes 1/2 cup finely chopped onion 1/2 cup corn meal Directions Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Mix above ingredients in a bowl for meat spread. Roll dough into 6 inch diameter circles, spead with meat mixture. Serve with yogurt. Sprinkle a baking sheet with corn meal, please meat pies on baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes or until bottom of dough is brown. Serve with Dede’s Greek/Mediterranean yogurt and lemon slices.

Lahme bi Ajeen Recipe (flat meat pies)

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Yield: 6-8
Level: Easy

Ingredients

  • dough - see DedeMed's easy dough recipe
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 1/4 lb ground lamb
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp Dede’s seven spices
  • 1 tbs salt
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
  • 1/2 cup corn meal

Directions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Mix above ingredients in a bowl for meat spread. Roll dough into 6 inch diameter circles, spead with meat mixture. Serve with yogurt. Sprinkle a baking sheet with corn meal, please meat pies on baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes or until bottom of dough is brown. Serve with DedeMed's Mediterranean/Greek Yogurt
and lemon slices.
Lahme bi Ajeen Recipe (flat meat pies)
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Ingredients

  • dough - see DedeMed's easy dough recipe
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 1/4 lb ground lamb
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp Dede’s seven spices
  • 1 tbs salt
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped tomatoes
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
  • 1/2 cup corn meal

Directions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Mix above ingredients in a bowl for meat spread. Roll dough into 6 inch diameter circles, spead with meat mixture. Serve with yogurt. Sprinkle a baking sheet with corn meal, please meat pies on baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes or until bottom of dough is brown. Serve with DedeMed's Mediterranean/Greek Yogurt
and lemon slices.


This is a great Mediterranean meat pie recipe that will impress your friends and can be served as an appetizer or main dish. Serve with yogurt or cucumber and tomato salad.
@carolejshaffer yes my family loves it with lemon squeezed on top and yes mixing in pine nuts is great too :)
By: dedemed
it's delicious if you squeeze a bit of lemon on it and you can also use pine nuts with the mixture if you like
By: carolejshaffer
@ThoughtfulThoughts7 yes, with my recipe, the meat is fully cooked all the way, nothing to worry about :)
By: dedemed
K, one question.. Is the meat being properly cooked when you cook it lyk tht.. Cause My mom is always saying its uncooked even though i luv it tha way it is! ( lol u should see her face when me n my dad eat kubi! Lol well shes frm india n my dads from saudi..) so yeah...
By: ThoughtfulThoughts7
@AlAhzab36 all the meat shrinks, you can fold them over to make them look more appealing. Meat always shrinks when you cook it b/c moisture is released, you did nothing wrong, it's just how meat cooks. Just try pushing the meat out as far as possible when you are spreading it on the dough :)
By: dedemed
@20hadia sahtain! I am so happy that you liked them :)
By: dedemed
omg i tried this a week ago and they were awesome! i has so much dough and meat i figured i may as well make like 2 dozens...and they freeze well once fully baked. bil hana wil sheefa.
By: 20hadia
Thanks for the recipe, the dough is good, the meat tastes good too, but my meat shrunk a lot. Where did I go wrong? 
By: AlAhzab36
@yvettemcfarlane that's wonderful Yvette, don't forget to check out my site for the written recipes :)
By: dedemed
I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear that we have this in Turkey too.
By: Metsada007
there really is no difference in the recipe, just the shape. You can also add ground jalapeno to the meat mix and that tastes great too :)
By: dedemed
oh, and btw, hello from falasteen!
By: jasminea123
cool...its nice to know the lingo. I'm not a know-it-all on Pali, or for that matter Arab cuisine and such, I've never seen a square (unless custom done) meat pie (and by "meat pie" strictly referring to "lahme bi ajeen")...what is the difference between the two?
By: jasminea123
In Lebanon, sfeeha is the square meet pies :)
By: dedemed
in Palestine, we call this " sfeeha"
By: jasminea123
your husband must be lucky to have you...lol
By: amjadaa
hehehe your so funny..
By: theskiizcrying
In Arabic it means meat with dough :) THank you for your support, don't forget to check out my site!
By: dedemed
hi. dedemed your recipes r very succesfull.we called it lahmacun in turkey.but it doesnt have a meaning. what is lahme bi ajeen mean in arabic?
By: rethy26
Thank you for your support...it's never to late to make lahme bi ajeen :)
By: dedemed
You are one of the best.... Thanks for all those lovely videos.... and by the way, u made me starving at 2:00 a.m. :)))
By: h6alahmad
Damn.... this girl is my dream: Arabian and good at cook!!!! I wonder if sicilians get along with arabs though... probably yes, becaus we're half arbaic too...
By: maxtrip1
correct! HAPPY COOKING!
By: dedemed
You can also use the frozen dough if you don't want to make your own dough.
By: ssaah59
some great recipes! your videos are great and realy usefull! thanks i had a question though, when i was in egypt, i had a dish in a lebanese restaurant: it was spinach topped with walnuts and fried onions... just wondering if you know the name of this and how to make it? thanks
By: rekuskid

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