What a magnificent husband you have!! I want to make all of your fatayer recipes! We cooked it all together. (A, Place filled triangles on a greased baking sheet (or one lined with a. The dilemma to cook meat before or after….that has been a debate for centuries. Zakiyat, my mother, made fatayir with the same recipe as the Aboods. Love the answers, so thoughtful. Once cooked, it was cooled overnight in the trunk of their car since it was winter in Northern Michigan. What am I doing wrong? I love your posts and its brings back beautiful memories of my Mum’s Lebanese cooking. Hey Liz I need help can you please email mee help me out with this recipe at red_scades@yahoo.com. I love pizza too much, but boy did I hate having a beautiful pizza all gunked up in a pile when I tried to get it off the stone. He can bake?! I made empanadas for Brad a while back and he still says that’s one of his favorite recipes. I used to make these with my mother. I have a great family recipe for spinach pies, but my meat pies are lacking a little in flavor, so I’m very anxious to try yours! The flavor, out of this galaxy. Dad’s eyes went big when we brought the platter in, the fatayar enticing his appetite as nothing else really had. My husband is one of ten children and I(a mostly Swede) was blessed to marry number six. Repeat the process with the other half of the dough, then with the scraps that have been kneaded together and left to rest for a few minutes before rolling out. I know!! I love that you’ve had one and know what they are!! Wow Bruce, this is very special. Mike, that’s so great, thank you! This practice was frowned on by our Sitty, but mom’s were just as good. xoxo, (I need to make these for my Syrian hub!) Hunnie was known for her Lebanese food but also her fried chicken. I seem to remember some she made that were “open-face” for lack of a better definition. They ground their meat with lots (equal amounts of each) of onions. The meat filling. He was being funny, and we laughed, but also dead serious. I lived with my grandfather for quite some time. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Love it. What a great hubby, love the answers to the questions. “Sweet Riches” LOVE that!! When I was younger, my mother and I always hand ground the meat and onions together. I will save this recipe. Lebanese Baklawa Recipe. I can’t stop thinking about your stir-fry!!! How neat to hear how everything is done in your family! We arrived to a home-cooked dinner of coosa and crunchy homemade pickles and labneh and olives and just-in-from-Spain marcona almonds. The end product was a much thicker dough than your pics showed. While I got religion with the coarse grind, raw, for the Lebanese sfeha recipe in my cookbook (can’t wait to share it with you in March! I didn’t know you and Aggie text all day long! Certainly are a darling family. (I can’t stand the thought of you and your family not having homemade pizza ;)). Then add the butter and mix well. They made their own dough, but never cut circles. He told us the original filling in his family was ground lamb, onion, garlic, chopped kalamata olives, pine nuts and feta cheese. ;-) Thank you so much!!! They look yummy. Can’t’ wait to try this!!! That’s so awesome you’ve had sfeehas in Detroit!!! To adorable! I know that I can freeze these pies but I want to serve for company fresh out of the oven. AWESOME!!! Check out more of my Lebanese Recipes by viewing my Pinterest board! Turn the mixer on … Here is a short one. We love meat pies, there is a local bakery that opened in the 60’s called Sam’s Bakery, where they cook the meat pies in a brick oven with a horseshoe shaped conveyer belt. However, I used your recipe to provide the filling (hashweh). Next time I will start early in making the dough.!!! Parchment paper is a great way to save clean up time and 2. Ahhhhh…love this, Liz! Recently when I had a visit with cousin Jimmy in Arizona, the Bianco pizza (known to be the finest in the land) I was after got moved to the back burner when we arrived because it was a Sunday, and turns out they’re closed on Sunday. Can’t figure out where this went wrong. A good way to keep the filling in the center is to lower the spoon with the filling over the center of the dough (parallel to it) and use your fingers to slide the filling off the spoon and into the center of the dough circle—or just use your fingers and no spoon. Whether it’s empanadas in Spain, patties in Jamaica or pasties in Eastern Europe, it seems so many different cultures have their own version of a savory pie. I first had a Cornish meat pie on a trip to Michigan to visit childhood haunts with my spouse, and this Lebanese version looks just as tasty as pasties. This is what I remembered ! They weren’t the same at all. The loving hubbie and especially those meat pies!! Love that he does the dishes and always has…send my husband a note! Whisk together the flour and salt in a mixer bowl or medium bowl. More rectangular. What a nice hubby you got there. We grew up cooking the meat first and your recipe sounds like Nana’s (although I have to admit I’ve never actually measured ingredients). … So good. love this post. The flavorings are carefully tested to produce deliciousness, so perhaps the flavor is simply personal taste and you’d prefer something different. For the dough: Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Not a bad idea either. And always eaten cold and raw or fried in rendered lamb grease in hamburger-shaped patties. My son is a chef, and I’m trying to pass the traditions of lebanese cooking onto him. Such good training…and memories as we moved from the Bank of Lansing Building to the renovated Salvation Army building. It’s the first time i made something like this and was easy. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. V. Uncle Dick, I was so glad to hear from Chris that you came through with flying colors! You need to read this post where my family got together one Sunday to make them in bulk for freezing!! Lucky lady! I have found other doughs used for breads and etc. Lebanese Meat Pies are triangles of baked dough that are filled with a warm, rich flavored ground beef mixture of onions, garlic, spices and the ground beef. Take the meat fatayar (pronounced fuh-TIE-yuh). Dan did a happy dance in his soul. They were gorgeous, my friends, not a seam undone in their perfect triangular shapes. If any juice spilled out it added the crunchy savory flavor to the bread that was so good. But if you want, you can easily remove the Silpat after a few minutes. Veggie Fatayer CALORIES & NUTRITION VALUES. (yes, he’s a special cuzzy). It sounds like the lamb flatbread (lahm b’ajeen?) I squeeze and pinch and yet those suckers still pop open. You know I am making those asap! These savory Lebanese meat pies (known as sfeehas) get their irresistible flavor from clarified butter, toasted pine nuts and fragrant cinnamon. Sorry to hear you have had back issues but it sounds as though you are on the mend. And the meat pies? Then there’d be no flavor. Whisk together the flour and salt in a mixer bowl or medium bowl. Can you tell me how can you make sure the dough doesn’t open up in the oven? Makes about 24-30 fatayar. Maureen, I always use raw lamb, as I was properly brought up. If you’re not grinding the meat yourself (me either! I wasn’t planning to post these when I made them so thank you for the push!! Let mixture cool slightly. ;). Happy Thursday! Apparently he’s also my manager and agent – lol. Technique: How to cook potatoes perfectly for salad. It was only light golden brown around the edges baked at 400 for 30 minutes.! My family never cooked the meat first, we were like your Dad. I wouldn’t be surprised!! When we made kibbe, it was always at least 5 pounds of meat, ground by hand, 7 times. Now if only his recipes were healthy….. Rich does the dishes AND tech stuff? Absolutely! Our family has many stories about mom’s cooking. That almost makes up for the no-Mexican food thing. I sat with my aunt before she died trying to get the dough to come out right and decided some of us have the gift and others just should keep trying. Mari x. I love fatayer! I know – he is pretty much the opposite of me!! :). Very same as yu mother. I just love this idea of an Appreciation Day for the men behind the blogs! Lucky duck! What other dough can I use, I’m shopping at walmart? You would love these Dorothy!! Thank you so so much. )Fatayers are a Lebanese food found throughout the Arab world in pastry shops and market stalls. You two are so cute! I made four meat square pastries out of each box, for a total of eight pieces.. Nothing quite like Lebanese food! 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