Meat Pastries

Ingredients

Dough (mini pizza dough)

• 3 cups flour, sifted
• 1 tbsp yeast
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 3 tbsp milk powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup very warm water

Meat

• 500 g minced beef with a little fat
• 2 large tomatoes, finely chopped
• 1 head of garlic, finely chopped
• 1 medium onion, finely chopped
• 1 hot chili, finely chopped
• 1 tsp salt and black pepper
• 1/4 tsp each of cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice
• 1 1/2 tbsp pomegranate molasses
• 1 tbsp pepper paste or tomato paste
• 2 tbsp olive oil

Method

1. Mix all the meat ingredients and leave while the dough rises so the flavors blend.
2. Mix the dry dough ingredients, then the wet, and let it rise an hour. Roll to about 1 cm, cut circles with a round cutter and rest 10 minutes.
3. Spread the meat over the dough as generously as you like (I like them full) and pinch the sides or leave them round.
4. Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C from below until golden, then briefly from above, about 15 minutes. Serve with yogurt or ayran.