If you want to try this Turkish specialty, you can easily prepare it at home. Here's the best recipe for lahmajoun:
Ingredients:
● For dough:
- 400 g soft flour
- ½ fresh yeast
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 100 ml water
- 100 ml milk
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- Salt
● For filling:
- 400 g minced beef meat
- 200 g canned tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 2 peppers
- 20 g cheese
- 4 tablespoons edible oil
- Mixed spices, black pepper
- Combine milk, water, sugar, yeast, oil and a little salt in a container and then gradually add the flour, kneading all the time until you get a soft and elastic dough. Allow the prepared dough to grow.
- Prepare the filling until the dough rises. Chop the onions thoroughly, and cut peppers and the preserved tomatoes into cubes. Grate the cheese on the larger side of the grater.
- Put onions and peppers to fry on some oil shortly, and after a short time add the minced meat, canned tomatoes and spices. Dine until all the ingredients soften.
- Divide the risen dough into four parts, and manually shape each part in a pizza shape, taking care that the edges are thicker and the center is thinner.
- Apply filling over the shaped pies and add grated cheese, then each on a pan coated with baking paper in the oven to bake until reddened. Bake at 200 C degrees for about 10-15 minutes
- Serve with fresh salad or ajran, yogurt or sour milk.
- You can roll lahmajoun and eat it as a doner.