Lahmacun Turkish pizza
The Turkish pizza called Lahmacun may not be as famous as the Italian counterpart but it is equally delicious. The base is thin and crisp, the topping consists of spiced lamb or beef mince. You can serve the pizza rolled up with thick yoghurt, onions, peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers.
Ingredients
- 250 g cake flour
- 2 Tbsp canola oil
- 5 g salt
- 125 ml water
- 500 g lamb or beef mince
- 1 medium white onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 100 g tomato paste
- 1 tin diced tomatoes 400 g
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 Tbsp mixed spice
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/2 tsp chili flakes
- 1/2 cucumber, thinly sliced
- 4 tomatoes, cut into wedges
- 1 green pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 red onion, peeled, thinly sliced
- 250 g Greek joghurt
- 1 tsp Sumac (optional)
- 1 lemon, cut into wedges (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 250 C and line a backing sheet with nonstick baking paper.
- Mix the flour, oil, salt and water in your kitchen machine until it becomes a soft dough. Cover the dough and let it rest while you make the filling.
- Combine the mince meat (uncooked) with the onion, garlic, tomato paste, tinned tomato, cinnamon, cumin, mixed spice, cayenne pepper, chili flakes, salt and pepper in a bowl.
- Divide the dough into 8 equal pieces and roll each into a thin circle (round about 20 cm in diameter). Only roll as many as you can fit onto 1 baking sheet at a time.
- Then coat each circle with 1/8 of the topping and bake them for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven.
- Continue until you have used all the ingredients.
- Serve the Turkish pizza with the cucumber, tomato, pepper, red onion, the Greek joghurt dusted with zumac and lemon wedges on the side.
- You can eat the pizza flat or rolled up!
- If you have leftovers, you can put 2 fried eggs on top and serve them for breakfast the next morning.