Yafawi Sfeeha #daringbakers

Running a dessert counter on your own, that too, without any prior experience is super tough. However, this month I have decided to take part anyway. And I did.

The July Daring Bakers’ Challenge was brought to us by Manal from Manal’s Bites. She introduced us to an authentic Palestinian dish from Jaffa that is served as a main meal along with a bowl of soup or a salad. The “Yafawi Sfeeha” or also known as “Milwayeh” which means twisted, is crispy yet tender and full of flavor.

I have never heard of yafawi Sfeeha, hence the size became bit bigger than what they wanted. Nonetheless, the taste was amazing.

Ingredients:

To make the dough:

2 cups plain flour,

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

2 tablespoons powdered milk 

2 tablespoons (45 ml) vegetable oil

About 1 cup warm water for kneading

Melted ghee 

Directions:

1.Mix flour, salt, sugar, powdered milk and vegetable oil and warm water until you get a tender and slightly sticky dough. 

2.Form golf-ball-sized dough balls. Place on a baking sheet that is very well greased with ghee and keep it in room temperature overnight.

3. You can make the filling in the mean time.

4.once your filling is ready, brush some oil on the surface you will be working on. Place and spread the dough on it gently. 

Meat filling-

Ingredients:

400gm chicken (ground) (traditionally beef is used, but because of the unavailability I had to use chicken

1 medium onion, minced

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon pepper

1/2 tsp all spice powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon powder

3/4 tsp lemon zest and 1/4teaspoon pepper

Directions:

Heat a frying pan, cook the meat with onion and spices. Put it off the heat and mix the lemon zest and pepper mix. Cool it down before using it in the Yafawi Sfeeha filling.

Once the filling is cooled. Put it in the yafawi Sfeeha and roll it like a snail. 

Preheat the oven in 200 degree C. Bake the yafawi Sfeeha for 15-18 minutes.