Meat Slices on Dough

Meat Slices on Dough

The recipe is for tender slices of lamb or veal with lamb fat, onion, salt, black pepper, and chili [paprika], prepared over dough and then baked in a very hot 250°C oven. According to the chef, the meat slices are first grilled until half-cooked, the lamb fat is rendered, then the filling is spread over the dough and covered with a second piece of dough before baking until cooked through and browned.

A baked dough dish topped with meat slices.

Like a savory meat flatbread.

Ingredients

  • Tender meat slices
  • Lamb fat
  • Chopped onion
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon Chili [paprika]
  • Dough
  • a little Oil

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 250°C.
  2. Roll out a piece of dough by hand or with a rolling pin on the work surface until thin, then place it in a baking tray lined with parchment paper or greased with oil.
  3. Cover the rolled-out dough pieces so they do not dry out before use.
  4. Cut up the lamb fat, then render it over the heat in a frying pan or over the fire; use its fat in the dish.
  5. Place the meat slices in the frying pan over the heat and grill until half-cooked, because baking in the oven will finish cooking them.
  6. Add the salt and black pepper to the meat in the frying pan over the heat.
  7. Add the chili to the onion in the frying pan over the heat; it is said to give it a beautiful color.
  8. Spread the onion in the baking tray over the dough.
  9. Spread the rendered lamb fat in the baking tray over the onion.
  10. Arrange the meat slices over the onion and lamb fat in the baking tray.
  11. Cover the filling with a second piece of dough in the baking tray.
  12. Put the tray into the very hot oven at the highest temperature until cooked through.
  13. Turn the pieces in the oven or on the tray once the first side is cooked, then return them to the oven until the second side is browned.
  14. Remove from the oven and cut, or leave as is, then serve hot.

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