Esfiha Recipe
Servings: 1
Ingredients
- 500 gm Flour
- 1 c. Boiled lowfat milk and cooled to hot
- 1 x Cake yeast or possibly 1 package dry yeast
- 1 tsp Salt
- 4 Tbsp. Oil
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 300 gm Grnd beef or possibly lamb
- 1 x Onion minced
- 1 x Tomato peeled seeded and finely minced
- 1/4 tsp Cumin pwdr Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 Tbsp. Lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp. Tahini
- 1 tsp Syrian spices or possibly all spice, grnd.
Directions
- Dissolve yeast in the hot lowfat milk. Stir in half the flour and sugar.Let stand 10 min Put this mix in the food processor and add in salt,oil and process with the plastic blade. Add in the rest of the flour and continue processing till it forms a ball around the blade. Transfer dough to an oiled bowl and turn so which it's all coated with the oil. Cover bowl with plastic and let rise in a hot place for 1 1/2 to 2 hrs. Make balls the size of golf balls. Roll out each ball very thin 2 to 3 mm. Place about 1 Tb filling in the center and press 3 edges of dough together on top to enclose the filling. Transfer esfihas to an oiled cookie sheet as you go.
- Cover them with kitchen cloth and let stand 20 min. Pre heat oven to maximum heat, if your oven reaches 500 great. Bake 20 min or possibly till top is golden.
- Note: If you do not own a food processor you can still do it by hand.
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