What is lahmacun?
Lahmacun is a typical Turkish takeaway food or snack on hand. A yeast dough focaccia is thinly spread with a tangy mixture of ground beef, onions, and tomatoes before cooking. The name means something like “meat with dough”. And strictly speaking, our Turkish pizza is nothing else, so the name is justified 😅. The addition of fresh ingredients like tomatoes, parsley and feta gives the “meat with dough” a colorful and crunchy upgrade. Try it now.
Here’s how it’s done:
For this you need these ingredients:
- Sauce:
- 100 g chopped tomatoes (add dose)
- 2 EL Ajvar (pikante Paprikawürzpaste)
- 0.5 teaspoons of salt
- 1 pinch of sugar
- Ground beef:
- 300 g of minced meat
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of ground cumin
- 0.5 TL Pfeffer
- Toppings for pizza:
- 1 Roll (400 g) Pizzateig
- 80 g pointed red peppers, diced
- 30 g of red onions, sliced
- 50 g tomatoes, diced
- 80 g of feta, crumbled
- Flat-leaf parsley
Preparation is very simple:
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C to circulate the air.
- For the tomato sauce: mix the chopped tomatoes, ajvar, salt and sugar. To put aside.
- For the minced meat: Mix the minced meat well with the salt, cumin and pepper.
- Unroll the pizza dough on a baking sheet and spread it evenly with the tomato sauce, leaving a 3 cm border. Cut the minced meat into pieces and spread it over the tomato sauce. Sprinkle the diced peppers on top. fold the edges.
- Cook for about 20 minutes until golden brown.
- For the pizza topping: Garnish the pizza with onion, tomato, feta and flat leaf parsley immediately after cooking.
- Zack – done!
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