Meat Filling

Name: Meat Filling
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon or ½ teaspoon ground allspice (optional); Salt and black pepper; 500 g (1 lb) lean lamb or beef, minced; 2 tablespoons oil or butter; 2 tablespoons pine nuts; 1 medium or large onion, finely chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

By Claudia Roden

Published 1986

About

This is called a tatbila.

Ingredients

1 medium or large onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons oil or butter
500 g<

Pie
Gluten-free

Method

Gently fry the onion in 2 tablespoons oil or butter (I prefer to use oil) until soft and a pale golden colour. Add the meat and fry lightly until it changes colour. Stir in the pine nuts and fry for 2 minutes longer. The pine nuts can also be fried separately and added at the end.