Lahmajun or Lovemajun as my oldest munchkin likes to call it is a staple on our dinner table.
Lahmajun is a popular Turkish style pizza. Traditionally it is made out of a thinly rolled out dough with meat and vegetable ( mainly tomato and capsicum salsa ) mixture spread over the top in a thin layer and cooked in a wood fire oven, then served topped with salad, a squeeze of lemon juice and rolled into a roll. It’s extremely delicious and very hard to stop on just one.
Here I’m sharing a cheats way of making Lahmajun where I came up with an idea of using a ready made flatbreads and avoiding the time-consuming dough rolling method.
My recipe is very simple and tasty. Hope you will enjoy it.
Ingredients
10-12 large, soft, thin flatbreads
500g lamb or beef mince
1 red capsicum
2 ripe, large tomatoes
1 large onion ( white or red ), peeled
2 cloves garlic, peeled
1 handful flat leaf parsley
2-3 tbsp olive oil
1/3 cup tomato paste
1/2 tbsp smoked Hungarian paprika
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg or cumin
1/2 tbsp chilli flakes ( optional )
1 tsp sea salt or to taste
Pinch of black pepper
To serve
1 bunch flat leaf parsley-washed, stems removed
1-2 lemons cut into wedges
2-3 tomatoes – cut into slim wedges or to your liking
1/2 onion – thinly sliced
Small handful flat leaf parsley leaves
1/2 tsp sumac
Method
- Preheat oven to 200C.
Prepare a lined with baking paper large baking tray. - Cut tomatoes in half, remove the seeds. Roughly cut capsicum. Cut onion into quarters. Place tomatoes, capsicum, onion, garlic and parsley into a food processor and process till finely chopped, but not too much, or simply chop finely using a sharp knife.
- Place meat, chopped vegetables, oil, tomato paste, paprika, nutmeg, chilli flakes, salt and pepper into a large bowl. Mix well using your hands or a spoon.
- Lay flatbread on a chopping board or a working bench. Spoon two spoonfuls (less or more depending on the size of the flatbread) of the meat mixture on top of a flatbread and spread evenly using the back of the spoon or your fingers, creating a thin layer or the meat mixture.
- Move onto a prepared baking tray and bake in preheated oven for 7-10 minutes. When cooked move to a prepared plate and cover with foil to keep lahmajuns warm. Repeat with remaining flatbreads.
- Place parsley leaves and lemon wedges into a plate or a bowl. Prepare a salad by mixing cut up tomatoes, sliced onion, parsley leaves and sumac in a small bowl.
- Serve lahmajuns warm with a handful of salad placed across the middle and squeeze of lemon juice over the top. Roll and enjoy.
Tip
To keep my lahmajuns warm I cover them with a piece of foil while others are still cooking
13 thoughts on “Lahmajun”
Joanna Wilson Phillips
This looks absolutely delicious! I can’t wait to try it:) Question: is Hungarian Paprika specifically needed? Thanks!
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samskitchen
Thank you, they are really yummy :). Hungarian paprika can be replaced with any other paprika. Hope you will enjoy them :). Happy cooking!
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Debs
Reblogged this on ~ A Well-Tuned Soul and commented:
Here is an interesting new recipe to try from Sam’s Kitchen. Let’s have some feedback when you try it!
Debs
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marlainpa
Hi Sam, thank you for visiting my blog and seeing my Turkish cooking. I am really inspired by your fabulous recipes and great pictures that walk you through the process. I am still learning how to photograph food, and your blog is giving me some new ideas. Can’t wait to try some of your recipes.
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samskitchen
You are very welcome 🙂 thank you for dropping by! I love turkish food as I grew up in a neighbouring country and we ate it very often. Your blog looks awesome! 🙂
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lynne hoareau
These sound great and I am all for ‘the cheats way’ 🙂 Have a good day further.
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samskitchen
Thank you 🙂
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Leyla
Your lahmajuns look so delicious, sis 🙂
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samskitchen
Thank you xoxoxo I will have to make them for you when you over xoxoxo
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Leyla
I would love that xoxox
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cats and cooking
I traveled to Turkey last summer and lahmajun was my favorite thing that
I tried. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
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samskitchen
It’s my pleasure to share :). It’s one of favourite too!
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Anuradha Mukherjee
This is so good.
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