Love,Cook and Eat

Delicious savory fried pie which is a popular appetizer in the middle East, It also can be stuffed with ground meat and pine nuts.I will  post the recipe later on. What I like about these pies is that you can prepare them in the morning and put them in the fridge until you ready to fry them, and you can also make a big batch and freeze them .

Ingredients:

For Dough:
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 egg
1/2 stick butter ( 4 tbs) heated for 15 sec in microwave
1/2 cup water

For Stuffing:

2 cups mozzarella cheese ( thick style)
1/4 cup chopped flat leaf  parsley
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp dried mint
pinch of black pepper
1/2 tsp olive oil

Yields 15 pies.

Directions:

In Food processor or in stand up mixer, put flour, salt and sugar and mix.
Add egg and melted butter and the gradually add water until a ball forms.
Rest dough for 30 mins  in oil coated bowl and cover it, so the dough doesn't dry .

In the meanwhile prepare stuffing
In a bowl mix mozzarella cheese,parsley,salt, pepper and olive oil.




After the dough had rested dust some flour on a hard surface( do not use alot of flour because you want the dough to still stick to each other when forming the crescents it).
Form the dough into a big round circle and using a a cover of  Tupperware ( or anything round that has edges) cut circles through the dough.


Take the irregular shaped dough out and roll it and let is rest for about 15 mins .

Now put some stuffing in the circle slightly to one side but keep it away form the edges.




Then close the dough as if forming a semi circle and then with holding the bottom part and pulling it up with a twisting motion all the way until it closes. ( you can also using a fork dipped in egg wash to seal the edges , although i don't know how would the cheese hold in there while frying).I will also post a video on how to close the pies.


After you finish all the pies and after the leftover dough from the previous circle has rested for 15 mins. repeat the previous steps.

Heat fryer to 350 degrees and deep fry pies until light golden brown.