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Lamb pizza ('lahma bi ajeen') recipe
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Lamb pizza ('lahma bi ajeen') recipe

16 ingredients 4 hr + 20 min 4 people openrecipes

These traditional Arab pizzas are popular in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey - they're commonly eaten as a street snack.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1104
Calories
41g
Protein
48g
Fat
128g
Carbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Lamb 100g cooked 294
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Mint 2 tbsp fresh (3g) 2
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Sunflower Oil not in our table 0
Sumac not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 dried yeast
  • tsp sugar
  • 0.5 strong white flour, plus extra for dusting
  • tsp dash sunflower oil
  • 350 olive oil
  • g knob of butter
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 1 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • tbsp finely minced lean lamb
  • 1 tomato paste
  • 1 sugar
  • 2 dried red chilli, finely chopped
  • 225 dried mint
  • g sumac
  • 2 bunch of flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
  • tbsp lemon, cut into wedges

Directions

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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