DISH RESEARCH · Bread
Aleppine Sfiha
Also known as: صفيحة حلبية
Thin Aleppine meat flatbreads with beef, herbs, tomato and pepper.
About Aleppine Sfiha
These thin meat flatbreads follow Antonio Tahhan’s family lahme b’ajeen, the Armenian-influenced Aleppo version represented here. The topping combines beef with tomatoes, peppers, onion and fresh herbs.
Garlic, Aleppo pepper and allspice give the meat mixture warmth and aromatic depth. Parsley and mint add freshness, while tomato and red pepper pastes intensify its savoury vegetable flavour.
A thin layer of topping covers a thin round of dough with a golden-brown base. Optional vegetables, greens or plain yogurt can accompany the flatbreads for folding and eating.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten).
Optional additions: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Aleppine Sfiha
Antonio Tahhan’s Armenian-Aleppine lahme b’ajeen.
- FlourBase
- Canola oilCooking medium
- Active dry yeastBinder
- SaltSeasoning
- SugarSweetener
- WaterLiquid
- Ground beefProtein
- ParsleyAromatic
- MintAromatic
- Red bell peppersFilling
- TomatoesFilling
- Red pepper pasteSeasoning
- Tomato pasteSeasoning
- GarlicAromatic
- Yellow onionAromatic
- Aleppo pepperSeasoning
- Ground allspiceSeasoning
- Eggplant pulpTopping · Optional toppings · Optional
- Plain yogurtTopping · Optional toppings · Optional
- Mint leavesTopping · Optional toppings · Optional
- ArugulaTopping · Optional toppings · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Flour: Wheat (gluten). Standard wheat bread dough in the source’s traditional flatbread context.
- Canola oil: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Active dry yeast: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Salt: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Sugar: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Sugar selected from source’s sugar-or-honey option.
- Water: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Ground beef: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Parsley: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Mint: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Red bell peppers: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Tomatoes: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Red pepper paste: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Exact paste formula unspecified.
- Tomato paste: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Garlic: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Yellow onion: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Broader onion link.
- Aleppo pepper: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Ground allspice: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Eggplant pulp (optional): No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Broader eggplant link.
- Plain yogurt (optional): Milk
- Mint leaves (optional): No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Arugula (optional): No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Arugula selected from the author’s arugula/baby-kale/other-greens options.
Recipe-specific unresolved details
- The primary source names lahme b’ajeen rather than the catalogue spelling sfiha; the selected Armenian-Aleppine flatbread version is named explicitly.
- Red pepper paste formula is unspecified.
Origins & food traditions
Aleppo, Syria; Armenian-influenced family preparation.
Cuisines & regions
- Aleppine Cuisine
- Syrian Druze CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Aleppine CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.