Turkish Meat Pies
September 3, 2011 by Joanna Cismaru | 26 COMMENTS
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Turkish Meat Pies with Arabic spice mix, mint and pine nuts. Amazing flavors and so delicious. Plus a bonus recipe for the Arabic spice mix.
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I remember a few years ago when I worked in Michigan, my Turkish friend and I went to a bakery. I don’t remember if that bakery was Turkish or Lebanese but we bought the most delicious meat pies there. That was the first time I tried these flat, open face meat pies and I was hooked. I remember I bought a few and brought them home and my husband and I fought over them. They were just delicious and they had beautiful Arabic spices flavor.
I was determined to learn to make these myself. My friend told me the basic ingredients in them, and I just had to try and make them. These Arabic spices like cardamom, coriander and cumin were not really familiar to me, as Romanian cuisine is pretty basic and we don’t use that many spices. Although the spices were not too common in my cooking, I had all the spices in my kitchen. I love to buy spices from all over the world, because you never know when you’re going to need them. I enjoy going to Indian stores and Arabic stores and buy the different spices they have and then research and see what I can make with them.
Ever since then I’ve been making these meat pies, not very often, but when I do make them they are gone in no time.
To make these meat pies, you’ll first need to make the Arabic 7 spice mix, if you don’t already have it. The recipe for the spices will make a lot more than you need for these meat pies, so just store them and use them next time