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Lahmacun

Name: Lahmacun
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 180ml Lukewarm water; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 200g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1 tbsp Red Pepper Paste; 3 tbsp Parsley; 1 tsp Cumin; 1 Lemon

Snack

⏱ 45 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin dough topped with a paste of ground meat and spices and baked — Turkey's thin-crust 'pizza.'

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Lahmacun means 'bread with meat' and is a thin flatbread snack said to come from southeastern Turkey. A paste of finely chopped ground meat, tomato, pepper, and parsley is spread on paper-thin dough and baked crisp in a hot oven. It's classically squeezed with lemon, topped with parsley and onion, and rolled up — a popular street snack all over Turkey.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunchtime, passersby squeeze lemon over lahmacun fresh from a stall's oven, roll it up, and bite in.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bread flour 300g
Lukewarm water 180ml
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Ground Beef 200g
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Red Pepper Paste 1 tbsp
Parsley 3 tbsp
Cumin 1 tsp
Lemon 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead bread flour with yeast, lukewarm water, salt, and oil and let rise about 1 hour.
Finely chop the onion, tomato, and parsley and mix with the ground meat, pepper paste, cumin, and salt to make the topping.
Divide the dough into 8 and roll into thin circles, dusting with flour.
Spread the meat paste thinly and evenly over the dough.
Bake in an oven preheated to 250°C for 8–10 minutes until the edges are crisp, and squeeze over lemon.

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