Sig's Pizza from Turkey ( Lahmacun)

Name: Sig's Pizza from Turkey ( Lahmacun)
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cup pizza flour (200 grams) plus 2 tablespoons pizza flour. Use plain flour if you can't get pizza flour; 1 tsp fine sea salt or salt substitute; 1/2 tsp fine granulated sugar; 1 tbsp good quality olive oil; 150 ml water, or a little more depending on dryness of dough. It should be flexible and smooth not sticky; 1 bunch of fresh parsley or 1/2 bunch fresh coriander; 1 large clove of garlic; 200 grams onion, chopped; 1 medium tomato; 1 green or 1/2 red chilli; 175 grams ground lamb or bought marinaded and very fine cubed tofu or vegetarian mince; 1 pinch fresh ground pepper; 1 1/2 tbsp tomato paste

Sigrun @sigrun

German, living in England

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. I use fine cubed tofu or vegetarian mince for me. The base is yeast free. Adjust spices to your taste

Sigrun @sigrun

German, living in England

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Ingredients

4 servings

the base
2 cuppizza flour (200 grams) plus 2 tablespoons pizza flour. Use plain flour if you can't get pizza flour
1 tspfine sea salt or salt substitute
1/2 tspfine granulated sugar
1 tbspgood quality olive oil
150 mlwater, or a little more depending on dryness of dough. It should be flexible and smooth not sticky
topping
1 bunchof fresh parsley or 1/2 bunch fresh coriander
1 largeclove of garlic
200 gramsonion, chopped
1 mediumtomato
1green or 1/2 red chilli
175 gramsground lamb or bought marinaded and very fine cubed tofu or vegetarian mince
1 pinchfresh ground pepper
1 1/2 tbsptomato paste

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Steps

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.