Sambousik Lahme

Description
Meat Pastries



Ingredients

 * 5 cups all purpose plain flour
 * 1 ½ cups lukewarm water
 * 2 tbsp salt
 * 2 tbsp sugar
 * vegetable oil for deep frying
 * 1 cup oil

Meat Filling :
 * 10 oz ground meat
 * 1 tbsp shortening or butter
 * ¼ cup fried pine nuts
 * a dash of ground allspice
 * ¼ tspn salt

Directions
Prepare Basic Dough. Cover and leave aside for 1 hour. Meat filling: Fry meat in shortening, add salt, spices and pine nuts. Stir over medium heat for 1 minute. Put aside. Divide dough into walnut-size balls. Roll out to form circles (8 cm diameter). Fill circles with meat. following this way: Put filling on one side of circle. Fold over one end to make semi-circles. Press edges with fingers. Fry in 1 cup of vegetable oil over medium heat. Brown both sides. Serve hot.

Note: You can add ¼ cup of chopped onion to meat filling.