Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, fatayer. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Spinach Fatayer are a staple of Levantine cuisine. Homemade dough stuffed with fresh spinach, onions, and other delicious ingredients, these are truly irresistible. Fatayer are little pies popular throughout the Middle East.

Fatayer is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Fatayer is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fatayer using 23 ingredients and 47 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Fatayer:

1. Make ready 4 cups All Purpose Flour
2. Make ready 1 teaspoon dry yeast
3. Make ready 2 teaspoon sugar
4. Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
5. Take 2 teaspoon soft butter
6. Take 1 cup Warm water
7. Prepare 1 teaspoon oil (to rub the dough)
8. Take 2 teaspoon milk to brush the fatayer
9. Take For stuffing
10. Make ready 1 cup minced lamb
11. Make ready 1 cup blanched and chopped spinach
12. Get 1/2 cup mozzarella
13. Get 2 tablespoon tomato paste
14. Get 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
15. Get 1 big minced onion
16. Get 1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste
17. Get 1 bay leave
18. Prepare 1 inch long cinnamon
19. Prepare 4-5 black pepper corns
20. Get 1 teaspoon chilli powder
21. Take 1/2 teaspoon mix spice /garam masala
22. Take to taste Salt
23. Take 1 teaspoon oregano or thyme

Spinach fatayers are small triangular pies stuffed with spinach and other ingredients. They are perfect served as appetizers. The fatayer is one of the staples of Middle Eastern cuisine, found as far afield as Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Palestine. In Lebanon, they are made in triangles, large or small, with the pastry encasing the filling.

Instructions to make Fatayer:

1. Mix a cup warm water with 1 teaspoon of yeast and 2 teaspoon sugar. Keep aside to broom.
2. In a big mixing bowl add flour, salt and soft butter.
3. Mix nicely to combine.
4. In the meantime the yeast has activated well.
5. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and add the yeast mixture.
6. With the help of a spatula slowly incorporate the flour with the yeast mixture.
7. Mix well till well combine.
8. Now with the help of your hand knead the mixture by adding 2-3 tablespoon of water.
9. Knead well to form a soft elastic dough.
10. Rub little oil to the dough.
11. Cover and keep aside for an hour or till dough becomes double in size.
12. In the meantime make the stuffing.
13. Heat a pan with vegetable oil. Add bay leave, cinnamon stick and black pepper.
14. Saute for few seconds and then add minced onion.
15. Saute for 2-3 minutes.
16. Add ginger-garlic paste and saute for a minute.
17. Add tomato paste.
18. Mix well and cook for one more minute.
19. Add the minced meat and mix well.
20. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, salt, oregano and mix spices.
21. Mix well to combine.
22. Fry for 2-3 minutes and then add 1 cup of hot water.
23. Cover and cook in medium heat until the meat cooks completely. It will take about 10-15 minutes.
24. When meat cooks completely, add the chopped spinach.
25. Mix well to incorporate. Cook for another 5 minutes without lid.
26. Before removing check the seasoning, add salt if necessary and transfer to a bowl.
27. Stuffing is almost ready. Come to the dough.It is double in size now.
28. Punch the dough.
29. Dust a work surface with flour and transfer the dough in the work place. Divide into 3 portions.
30. Take one portion and roll it with a rolling pin to form a big thin circle.
31. With the help of a cookies cutter, cut the circle into smalldisks.
32. Take the stuffing, add 1/2 cup of mozzarella.
33. Mix well.
34. Take 1 teaspoon of prepared stuffing and scoop in the centre of each disks.
35. Now fold the disk to give the fatayer shape. Check the picture below. This is the first fold.
36. 2nd fold is shown below.
37. Now press the edges to form a nice shape.
38. Like this form all the pastries. You can make approximately 40 small fatayer.
39. Following is another shape I made.
40. Pre heat oven at 200 degree Centigrade for 10 minutes.
41. Line a baking tray with aluminum foil or baking sheet.
42. Place the prepared fatayer in the tray.
43. Brush each fatayer with little milk.
44. Bake them for about 18-20 minutes or till light golden brown.
45. I baked them for 18 minutes.
46. Take out from oven and keep aside for 5 minutes to cool.
47. Afte 5 minutes transfer to serving dish and serve with some tomato ketchup.

Fatayer are middle eastern little pockets filled with all sorts of fillings. Fatayer dough is so easy to make, it really does not require any special skills. A yeast dough is made for fatayer and you leave it. Fatayer, Petaeer (Arabic: فطاير‎) (Persian: پتایر‎) is a Middle Eastern meat pie that can alternatively be stuffed with spinach (Arabic: سبانخ‎), or cheese (Arabic: جبنه‎) such as Feta or Akkawi. It is part of Levantine cuisine and is eaten in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait and Israel.

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