Lahmacun - Turkish minced lamb pitta/pizza
Lahmacun - Turkish minced lamb pitta/pizza

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Great recipe for Lahmacun - Turkish minced lamb pitta/pizza. This is a quintessential Turkish classic dish. Normally it is not prepared at home since it involves working with dough and it tastes better in a wood oven just like pizza.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook lahmacun - turkish minced lamb pitta/pizza using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lahmacun - Turkish minced lamb pitta/pizza:
  1. Take For the dough:
  2. Make ready 1/2 cup water
  3. Get 1/2 cup milk
  4. Take 2 and 1/2 cup flour
  5. Get 1 tea spoon easy bake yeast
  6. Take 1 tea spoon sugar
  7. Get 1 tea spoon salt
  8. Prepare For the top:
  9. Get 400-500 gr minced lamb
  10. Prepare 3 onions
  11. Make ready 4 tomatoes
  12. Make ready 2-3 clove garlic
  13. Take 1 green pepper
  14. Prepare 1/2 bunch parsley
  15. Take 1 tbsp chilli paste
  16. Take Ground pepper
  17. Get Salt

In this lahmacun recipe, I use a food processor to create the topping. Add the vegetable and spice purée and mix thoroughly. Season with salt and pepper and cook covered on medium low heat till the lamb is cooked and liquids reduced sufficiently. It's also referred to as Turkish pizza, Armenian pizza, Syrian pizza and Lebanese pizza in some recipes and translated restaurant menus.

Instructions to make Lahmacun - Turkish minced lamb pitta/pizza:
  1. Let's start with the dough first. I prefer using milk and water mixture for my dough but all water would be fine. Mix half cup of milk with half cup of hot water, add some sugar and mix. In a large bowl, mix the mixture with 2 and a half cup of flour, yeast and salt.
  2. The dough will have a sticky texture. It should be medium hard; not so soft, not so hard.
  3. Close the bowl with cling film and let it rest for an hour in a warm dark place.
  4. While the dough getting ready we can prepare the topping. Finely chop all the vegetables and add them to the minced lamb. Don't forget the skin the tomatoes. Add the chilli paste, pepper and salt.
  5. This is how the topping should look like.
  6. When the dough ready, it should approximately be double the original size.
  7. Now we can start working on our base. You have to work with flour in every step. Add pitch of flour whenever you are touching or trying to give shape.
  8. Lahmacun and pitta have different shapes. Lahmacun is circular shaped like pizza and pitta ("pide") is oval. The shape and size all depends on your preference and oven trays. The base should be quite thin. Here is lahmacun base.
  9. Here is pitta (pide) base:
  10. Place the bases on to the oven trays with baking papers. And put some toppings.
  11. Spread the topping so that all the base is covered. For pitta, fold the edges inside.
  12. Put them in a 200 degree Celsius pre-heated oven. And cook until top and bottom is golden; approximately 30-40min.
  13. Enjoy it with a touch of lemon. I almost always drink "ayran" along with it; which is a yogurt drink. I hope you enjoy too. "Afiyet olsun!".

Unlike pizza, traditional lahmacun doesn't contain cheese and is mostly made ground beef or lamb. You can make your own flatbread, but I have found this a good alternative. Whisk egg and olive oil in a small bowl. Turkish Flatbread With Lamb And Tomatoes (Lahmacun) Bake these Turkish spiced lamb and tomato flatbreads on a heated pizza stone in the oven so that the crust and topping cook evenly. Even though lahmacun is popularly nicknamed Turkish pizza, that name doesn't really do justice to what this crunchy, doughy treat topped with spicy minced meat truly represents.

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