Decided to bake meat pies last night, keshik pies and zaatar pies tonight. We enjoy these as breakfast, snack lunch or dinner. Scroll for their mouthwatering recipes.
The dough
- 3 cups white flour
- 3 cups wheat flour
- 1Tbsp sugar
- 1tsp salt
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1 yeast packet
Mix yeast with one cup warm water and sugar. Let it rest 10-15 min until it rises.
Mix risen yeast with all ingredients and kneed. Cover and let it rest one hour.
Keshik mixture
- Dry kishik from a middle Eastern store
- Roasted Sesame seeds
- Olive oil
- Ketshup
The Ketchup is merely to provide a reddish color. Depending on how much you want to make. Add olive oil to keshik until all covered and spreadable but not runny. Add sesame seeds to taste and a couple of Tablespoons of Ketchup.
Beef mixture
- 1 lb ground beef
- 2 medium size tomatoes sliced small
- one medium onion sliced small
- salt
- pepper
- Optional: 1 TBSP Pomegranate Molasses
Zaatar
- Zaatar mixture from a middle Eastern store. Lebanese zaatar is made with dried oregano, dried sumac, sesame seeds, salt.
- Olive oil
Shape into circles, spread the mixtures, bake at 400F until done and enjoy!
They look FABULOUS!!!!