Homestyle Ozi, Delicious and Elegant

Ingredients

• Basmati rice
• Green peas
• Finely chopped dry onion
• Ground meat
• Salt
• Seven-spice blend
• Oil
• Corn
• Ghee
• Black pepper
• Cinnamon
• Almonds or cashews, or other nuts of your choice
• Dough:
• 4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 1/4 cups warm water
• Cornstarch for rolling or stretching the dough
• Ozi preparation from a friend and chef at Shou Tabkhin Today:
• Rania Saloum
• Click on Rania’s name to visit her profile on our site and read the details of her delicious recipes.
• Also try from Rania’s recipes grape leaves with meat
• Click the link to make the tastiest sweet and sour chicken

Method

1. Cover the peas with water and boil them with 1 teaspoon of sugar so they keep their green color. Cook until tender; canned peas can also be used.
2. Soak the rice when you start preparing the filling.
3. Sauté the finely chopped onion in a little oil until softened, then add the ground meat and stir until its color changes.
4. Add the spices, canned corn, and salt to the meat, stir, then turn off the heat.
5. Drain the rice, then add it to the sauté with the ghee and the amount of water the rice needs. Once it comes to a boil, reduce the heat and cover the pot until the rice is cooked.
6. When the rice is done, add the peas after draining them very well, along with the fried nuts, and mix everything together.
7. Let the rice and peas cool.
8. Meanwhile, prepare the dough: add the salt to the flour, then the oil, and rub everything together, then knead with warm water.
9. Let the dough rest for about half an hour.
10. Once the dough has rested, divide it into 6 balls.
11. Let the balls rest again, then roll each one out by hand after sprinkling starch on the work surface.
12. Sprinkle the surfaces of the dough sheets with starch as well, and stack them on top of one another as you finish each one.
13. Roll them all together to get one large sheet, then separate the ozi layers from one another.
14. Roll out each sheet of ozi dough into a round, place some filling inside, and seal the dough together from all sides to form a large ball resembling a pouch.
15. Arrange the ozi balls in a baking tray greased with ghee, and brush the tops with ghee as well.
16. Place the tray in a preheated oven until golden on top and bottom.