Lebanese Spinach Turnovers

Sbanik bil Ajeen

Preparation info
  • Makes

    12 pies

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Saffron Shores: Jewish Cooking of the Southern Mediterranean

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2002

  • About

Made with a yeast-raised pastry rather than a sambusak short crust, these Lebanese spinach pies can be prepared a few hours ahead of time and reheated. A half cup of raisins or pomegranate seeds is occasionally added to the spinach filling. The dough is also used to make lahm bil ajeen, the lamb-topped pizza that is popular all over Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria.