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Sfiha

Name: Sfiha
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 16
Cuisine: Syria
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 4g Dry yeast; 1 tsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 170ml Water; 2 tbsp Olive oil; 300g Ground mutton; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 1 tbsp Lemon juice; A pinch Cinnamon powder; A pinch Chili powder; A pinch Black Pepper; 2 tbsp Pine Nuts

Snack

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 16

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin dough topped with tomato and ground lamb and baked — Syria's little meat pies.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sfiha is a small open-faced meat flatbread found throughout the Levant. In Syria, ground lamb is mixed with tomato, onion, and pomegranate molasses, spread on thin dough, and baked briefly at high heat. There's also a custom of bringing filling made at home to the neighborhood bakery to have it baked, and it's loved for breakfast and snacks.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Damascus morning, trays of little meat pies slide one after another into the big oven of a neighborhood bakery, and the smell of fresh baking fills the alley.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 16)

Bread flour 300g
Dry yeast 4g
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 170ml
Olive oil 2 tbsp
Ground mutton 300g
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Cinnamon powder A pinch
Chili powder A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch
Pine Nuts 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, water, and olive oil and let rise 1 hour.
Mix the ground lamb, chopped onion, finely chopped and squeezed tomato, tomato paste, lemon juice, spices, and a little salt.
Divide the dough into 16 and roll each thin into a 10cm round.
Spread the filling thinly on top and scatter with pine nuts.
Bake at 230°C for 10–12 minutes.

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