Pastries and baking
Meat, Spinach, and Potato Pies
Delicious, reliable homemade meat, spinach and potato pies. Find the dough recipe and all three fillings — nothing beats homemade pastries.
Meat, spinach and potato pies... one dough for all fillings...
Ingredients
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- Dough
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups, or 1 3/4 cups warm water (adjust according to flour)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- Salt to taste
- 2 tablespoons yeast
- 3 tablespoons plain yogurt
- 1 small teacup of oil
- Meat filling
- Ground meat
- Tomato
- Onion
- Pomegranate molasses
- Pinch of pepper
- Seven-spice blend (baharat)
- 2 tablespoons plain yogurt
- Potato filling
- Raw grated potato
- Tomato, diced
- Chopped onion
- Chopped parsley
- Oil
- Salt
- Pinch of dried mint
- Pepper
- Minced meat (optional)
- Spinach filling
- Chopped spinach
- Tomato (optional)
- Pinch of sumac
- Lemon to taste
- For more delicious pie recipes see: Turkish pie dough
- To make fried pies use this dough: Fried spinach pie dough
Method
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- Mix the dry dough ingredients, then gradually add the wet ingredients and knead.
- Continue kneading for about 10 minutes until you have a soft, smooth dough.Timers: 10 min
- Cut or shape the dough into circles or balls of the size you want.
- Let the meat, spinach and potato pie dough rise — it will not need more than 10 minutes to proof in hot weather, so it's better to prepare the fillings in advance.Timers: 10 min
- Roll out the dough with a rolling pin on a clean surface, fill and shape them as desired.
- Bake the meat, spinach and potato pies in a preheated oven until the bottoms are cooked, then brown the tops.
- To make fried pastries, here is this dough via the link: Fried spinach pastries dough.
Recipe tags
Pastries and bakingInternationalDairy freeGluten freeNut freeEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- Turkish pie dough
- Fried spinach pie dough
