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Lahmajo

Name: Lahmajo
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Armenia
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 180ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; 250g Mixed ground meat; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1/2 Red bell pepper; 2 tbsp Tomato paste; 1 tsp Paprika; 1 bunch Parsley; 1 Lemon

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin dough spread with spiced ground meat and baked — Armenia's snack sometimes called a 'pizza.'

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Lahmajo is a thin flatbread eaten from Armenia across the Middle East: the dough is thinly spread with a paste of ground lamb or beef, tomato, onion, bell pepper, and herbs and baked at high heat. The classic way is to squeeze lemon over it fresh from the oven, top with parsley and onion, and roll it up.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In front of a bakery oven in Yerevan, thin rounds are slid one after another into the oven on a long peel, and hot lahmajo are handed over wrapped in paper.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Bread flour 300g
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Water 180ml
Salt 1 tsp
Mixed ground meat 250g
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Red bell pepper 1/2
Tomato paste 2 tbsp
Paprika 1 tsp
Parsley 1 bunch
Lemon 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, water, and salt and let rise 1 hour.
Finely chop the onion, tomato, bell pepper, and half the parsley and mix well with the ground meat, tomato paste, paprika, and a little salt into a paste.
Divide the dough into 6 and roll each thin, about 20cm across.
Spread the meat paste thinly right to the edges.
Bake at 250°C for 7–8 minutes until the edges are crisp.
Top with parsley, squeeze over lemon, and roll up to eat.

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