Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Lahmacun (Turkish Pizza)

A traditional Turkish style pizza - which I somewhat basterdized but
still ended up with an incredibly yummy dinner.

Minced beef and very finely diced tomato, red pepper and onion mixed
with tomato paste, pomegranate molasses, sumac, cumin, cayenne and s&p.

The 'paste' spread very thinly over a pita and baked directly on the
racks in a very hot oven until the meat is cooked.

Garnished with chopped parsley, toasted pinenuts and a squeeze of lemon.

Served with an Israeli style salad and babaganoush.

2 comments:

Fred said...

What a strange way to cook minced meat!!

Roughly how long does it take to cook in the oven? (I assume that by very hot you mean 230 - 250 C)

Adam said...

actually an increddibly smart way to stretch a small amount of meat...

you could probably get dinner for 4 from 500g or less.

and yeah, very hot is 230+ for about 5-8 mins...

some of the recipes used more tomato (or even passata) to thin the meat out even more - which would make it cook even quicker.

check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc8fnzvN0GU to see how to really do it (starting with the dough) and you can see how thin the meat can be.