Fatayer

Dough

2 tsp dry bread yeast

1 cup warm water

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp salt

I tablespoon olive oil

3 cups flour

1 egg for egg wash

Filling

650 g. ground beef or lamb

½ large onion grated

¼ cup lemon juice

1 tablespoon salt

1 tsp. pepper

300 g. crushed tomatoes

Dissolve the yeast in the cup of water a large bowl then add sugar. After the yeast blooms, mix in the flour and salt to form smooth dough.

Make 18 balls of dough around 5 cm in diameter and place on a floured surface covered in a tea towel. Let rise 2 hours. While oven is pre-heating to 200 C. degrees, make the meat mixture by combining all of the ingredients.

 Roll out each dough ball into a circle and add some of the meat mixture to each “pie”. Bring each side of the dough to the center to form a triangle shape. Crimp to hold the shape (see above picture). Brush with egg wash and bake at for 14-16 minutes or until golden brown.