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Recipe: Middle Eastern Filo with date vinegar

March 9, 2016 by Shari

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Interesting!

We have enjoyed the date vinegar in salads and in these great little Middle Eastern Filo Pastries that I whipped up…

Recipe: Middle Eastern Filo with date vinegar
Recipe Type: dinner
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 15 rolls
Ingredients
  • 1/4 tsp allspice
  • ¼ tsp black pepper
  • ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp ground coriander
  • ¼ tsp ground cumin
  • ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
  • (⅓ cup) pine nuts
  • 1/3 cup diced dried fruit mix
  • 80 ml (⅓ cup) olive oil, plus extra, to brush {or you can use butter}
  • 2 onions, finely chopped
  • 3 cloves of garlic, crushed
  • 250 g minced lamb or beef
  • 3 tbsp date vinegar
  • 15 sheets filo pastry, fresh or thawed
Instructions
  1. To make spice mixture, combine all of the ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
  2. Place pine nuts in a frying pan over medium heat. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until browned, then remove from pan and set aside.
  3. Add oil to the pan with onion and garlic and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes or until softened. Add meat and cook, breaking up with a wooden spoon, for 6 minutes or until browned.
  4. Add 1 tsp of the spice mixture and ¾ tsp salt and cook for 2 minutes or until fragrant. Remove from heat and stir in toasted pine nuts, dried fruit and date vinegar. Set aside to cool completely.
  5. Preheat oven to 200°C. Line an oven tray with baking paper. Lay a sheet of filo pastry on a clean work surface or chopping board, with a long edge facing you. Brush the half closest to you with oil, then fold in half lengthwise. Turn filo so that the short edge is facing you and brush with oil. Shape a heaped tablespoonful of cooled filling along the short edge closest to you, leaving a 2.5 cm border on sides and bottom. Roll short edge over filling to enclose, then fold in the 2 longer sides and roll up to form a cigar shape.
  6. Place seam side-down on prepared oven tray and repeat with remaining filo pastry and filling to make 15 rolls.
  7. Place in oven and bake for 20 minutes or until golden.
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