Shish Barak with Yogurt

Ingredients

• Dough:
• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons oil
• 1 cup water or more as needed
• Filling:
• 300 grams minced meat
• 1 tablespoon oil + 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 onions finely chopped
• Fried pine nuts or chopped almonds
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• A pinch of white pepper
• A pinch of seven-spice mix
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
• Yogurt:
• 3 kilograms yogurt
• 4 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/2 liter (2 cups) water
• 1 tablespoon salt or to taste
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro or dried mint
• Fried pine nuts for garnish - optional
• Filling method:
• Brown the meat until dry
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Method

1. Mix the dry dough ingredients, then add the water gradually and knead well.
2. Let the dough rest for half an hour.
3. Divide the dough into 3 portions.
4. Let them rest for an additional 10 minutes.
5. Roll out the three dough portions and cut them into small circles using a cutter or a small cup.
6. Place a sheet of parchment paper on a baking tray and arrange the dough circles on it.
7. Fill them with the prepared and chilled filling, close them into small purse shapes, then bake them in a hot oven for 5 minutes on low heat just to set them.
8. Remove them from the oven and cover immediately to keep them soft.
9. Start preparing the yogurt: strain the yogurt using a sieve, dissolve the cornstarch in water with a whisk, strain that mixture and add it to the cold yogurt and stir.
10. Place the pot over heat and continue stirring until it comes to a boil.
11. Reduce the heat and stir every two minutes for about ten to fifteen minutes.
12. After 20 minutes or about a third of an hour, place the shish barak into the yogurt, add the salt and stir gently.
13. Separately, sauté the crushed garlic in butter until it softens slightly, then add the cilantro or dried mint and sauté for one minute.
14. Pour this garlic butter over the pot of yogurt and shish barak and stir, then turn off the heat.
15. Spoon the shish barak into serving plates and garnish with fried pine nuts.
16. Brown the meat until dry.
17. Add the oil, butter and chopped onion, reduce the heat and stir occasionally until the filling is cooked.
18. Add the fried nuts, salt, spices and cilantro, stir briefly then remove from heat.
19. Let the filling cool before stuffing the dough so the dough does not open.
20. Wutfa Rahal
21. Also from the delicious yogurt recipes: zucchini with yogurt in oil
22. For more recipes from Wutfa, here is the pizza dough
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