Sfīha

These Arab open-faced meat pies, a kind of small pizza also called la  m bī ajīn, are made with the basic Arabic-style pita bread dough. Some Syrian cooks mix yogurt into the dough. The version I had at the al-Az restaurant in Damascus was a dough called raqīq (also ruqāq), a kind of buttery puff pastry, but this recipe is based on a Palestinian version. The filling is made with spiced lamb, pine nuts, onions, spices, and sometimes tomatoes, all mashed in a morta