Recipe: Perfect Sig's Pizza from Turkey ( Lahmacun)

Sig's Pizza from Turkey ( Lahmacun). Varies Great recipe for Sig's Pizza from Turkey ( Lahmacun). This is often rolled and eaten as a hand food, the base does not need to crisp up completely. It can be eaten with any topping but usually is eaten with minced lamb as seen here.

This spicy, crispy Turkish Pizza, called 'Lahmacun' is a famous Turkish street food that can be made at home easily. Picture it as a flavor-packed crispy flatbread topped with seasoned beef or lamb, fresh mint, red onions, crumbled cheese, and lemon juice. Lahmacun (also lahmajun and other spellings) or called Lahm bi-Ajin is a round, thin piece of dough topped with minced meat (most commonly beef or lamb), minced vegetables and herbs including onions, tomatoes and parsley, and spices such as cayenne pepper, paprika, cumin and cinnamon, then baked. You can have Sig's Pizza from Turkey ( Lahmacun) using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sig's Pizza from Turkey ( Lahmacun)

1. It's of the base.
2. It's 2 cup of pizza flour (200 grams) plus 2 tablespoons pizza flour. Use plain flour if you can't get pizza flour.
3. It's 1 tsp of fine sea salt or salt substitute.
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of fine granulated sugar.
5. It's 1 tbsp of good quality olive oil.
6. Prepare 150 ml of water, or a little more depending on dryness of dough. It should be flexible and smooth not sticky.
7. It's of topping.
8. Prepare 1 bunch of of fresh parsley or 1/2 bunch fresh coriander.
9. Prepare 1 large of clove of garlic.
10. It's 200 grams of onion, chopped.
11. You need 1 medium of tomato.
12. Prepare 1 of green or 1/2 red chilli.
13. You need 175 grams of ground lamb or bought marinaded and very fine cubed tofu or vegetarian mince.
14. Prepare 1 pinch of fresh ground pepper.
15. Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp of tomato paste.

Lahmacun is often wrapped around vegetables, including pickles, tomatoes, peppers, onions, lettuce. Lahmacun or Turkish pizza is a traditional dish that many people adore but I love this pizza! The dough is soft and covered with a delicious sauce of meat mixed with spices. Lahmacun is originally from the southeastern part of Turkey famous for its spicy kebabs and other meat dishes.

Sig's Pizza from Turkey ( Lahmacun) step by step

1. For the base sieve the flour onto a worktop. Make a well in the middle and add the salt and sugar into well..
2. Add the olive oil gradually. Work into the flour. Add 150 ml water slowly work into the dough until smooth and flexible. You may not need all the water or a little more if to dry ..
3. Wrap into a damp clean cloth and chill for 30 minutes.
4. Lightly dust the dough with flour on removing from fridge. Break into 4 equal pieces..
5. For the topping chop the parsley or coriander, garlic and onions. Set aside..
6. Peel the tomato and finely chopped it. Chop the chilli very finely..
7. Place all ingredients for topping into bowl add 2 tablespoons of water , knead thoroughly through until well mixed..
8. Dust worktop with flour, flatten dough pieces with hand then roughly roll out into a very thin base. Carefully lift onto baking tray keeping the shape..
9. Add the lamb or tofu topping mix and spread over pizza base with your hands.
10. Bake in a preheated oven at 400 f/ 200 C for about 10 minutes or to your liking.
11. Remember that it does not need to be crispy like a normal pizza if you want to roll it, it should be a littke bit like a wrap with crispy edges . For this purpose the dough is cooked after ten minutes. You may crisp it uo more if you want to serve it as a pizza. Take care not to burn it as the base is very thin. Serve either hot or cold with some lemon slices to squeeze the juice over the filling..

It's a good example of Turkish regional cuisine. You can find this tasty, spicy treat all over the country in restaurants, cafes and fast food chain restaurants that specialize in lahmacun. Nicknamed the 'Turkish pizza', the pide, pronounced 'pee-deh' in Turkish, is the other Turkish pizza after lahmacun. In Turkey, pide comes in two forms. The İçli pide, meaning 'stuffed' or 'garnished pide', which is the recipe presented here, and the pide ekmeği ('pide bread'), which is a flat bread, thicker than the İçli pide.

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