Tonia’s Sandwichet Lahmeh ( Tonia’s Meat Sandwiches)

Tonia’s version of meat sandwich or Lahmeh bil Ajin or meat pie........

Ingredients:

Dough:

5 cups Flour

1 cup Milk

1 cup Butter

1 tablespoon instant dry Yeast

1 tablespoon Sugar

Filling:

500g Minced Meat

1 Egg

1 Onion grated

1 Potato grated

1 Green Pepper grated

Seasoning: salt, pepper, cinnamon

Glazing:

 1 egg beaten

For the dough, mix the flour, yeast & sugar. Rub the butter with the flour mix. Add milk to form a soft dough. Let it rest for abit. In the meantime, prepare the filling. Mix all the filling ingredients together.

Roll half the dough on a floured surface. Cut circles with cutter ( 8cm) or tea cup. It would make about 18 sandwiches.

Add a heaped  teaspoon of filling in the middle of the circle & spread them in a line in the centre of the circle. Take opposite sides of the circle & close them together in the middle.

Put the Meat sandwich in greased tray.  Glaze each with the beaten egg. Repeat with the second half of the dough. It should make in total about 45 sandwiches.  Glaze each with the beaten egg. Keep spaces between the sandwiches.

 Cook in a medium hot oven till they are golden.