Lambaþríhyrningar með feta

Lamb triangles with feta 

Icelandic finger food - This time I baked puff pastries filled with minced lamb mince for our planned hiking tour.

By the way, finger food means "pinnamatur" in Icelandic, the word is also used for "appetizer". 

When shopping, however, I only had problems when I was searching for minced meat in our local supermarket - there was no fresh minced meat in the cold room, only hamburgers, so I looked in the freezers - and at first I found nothing, because I was looking for the wrong shape or packaging. 

But then we were successful: minced meat is sold frozen here in Iceland in "sausage form", there were optional pork, beef, horsemeat and mutton. So we bought a roll of "kindahack" (= chopped mutton) which I then thawed at home before baking. 

(My "minced sausage" had 635 g, for the lamb triangles that was a bit too much - well, doesn't matter, so our son got noodles wth minced meat for lunch!)

Ingredients

400 g minced lamb

1 - 2 Tbsp butter

1 onion

1 tsp cumin

1 tsp coarse sea salt

1/2 tsp pepper

70 g feta cheese

1 pack of puff pastry (425g)

1 egg yolk

Preparation

Melt the butter in a pan.

Peel the onion, cut it into small pieces...

... and fry in the butter and sprinkle with cumin.

Add the minced meat and fry well.

Season with salt and pepper.

Remove the pan from heat.

Cut the sheep's cheese into small pieces and mix with the fried mince.

Cut the puff pastry sheets into squares (approx. 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches resp. 6 x 6 cm).

Place one or two tablespoons of the meat mass on each square. Carefully fold the square so that a triangle is formed, and carefully squeeze the edges with a fork.

Place the dumplings on a baking tray lined with baking paper and brush with the yolk.

Bake the dumplings in a preheated oven at 400 °F (200 °C) upper and lower heat for about 10 to 15 minutes until the dumplings have turned golden brown. 

For our hike, we packed the lamb triangles in a box into our knapsack. - I'm sure you've already guessed where our hike took us, haven't you?