Lahmacun

Lahmacun [ lahmadʒun ], also known as Turkish pizza is a flat bread made ​​from yeast dough that is coated before baking thin with a spicy sauce of minced meat, onions and tomatoes. Lahmacun is a traditional snack which is usually eaten hot straight from the oven. Similar dishes are also known in the Arab world. The name derives from the Aramaic Lahmacun " lame on jungle ", which means " meat with dough".

Largely it is assumed that the Assyrians as early as the 2nd millennium BC knew a similar dish and Greek merchants brought it to Greece. The Assyrians invented a technique that made ​​it possible to shape the dough very thinly. In summary it can be said that it is the food of the Middle East, which has been adopted by many cultures.

To prepare a simple dough made ​​from wheat flour, yeast, water, salt and potentially millimeter-thin some oil, plate-sized pancake is rolled out, with a mixture of raw, minced lamb and / or beef, tomatoes, onions, garlic and pepper paste, with cumin, sumac, salt and pepper spiced, coated and baked in a stone oven as possible directly on the floor.

Lahmacun is traditionally served only with smooth parsley, chopped onion and a lemon quarter - the pancake is drizzled with the lemon juice, spiced to taste with Pul Biber sharp, curled up with the parsley and eaten out of hand. In German-speaking Lahmacun is also with salad, some still with a sauce ( Čačík ) or kebab meat rolled offered as a snack.