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Calculated Shard: 2 (from laksa180)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa002.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.notquitenigella.com/2020/10/05/easy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.notquitenigella.com/2020/10/05/easy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2020\/10\/05\/easy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe\/","crawl_time":1775529647,"first_indexed_time":1601918808,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,notquitenigella!www,\/2020\/10\/05\/easy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe\/ s443","src_root_hash":"8629662358518303602","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas Recipe","meta_descriptions":["Spicy, delicious and thin, this Lahmacun pizza is amazing! If you want to make a delicious spicy mince pizza that is low in stress but high in reward you HAVE to try this! Traditionally this lahmacune pizza is topped with lamb mince but works equally as well with beef mince. This thin based cheese-less pizza has a good amount of topping so that it is delicious but not dry at all. After one bite of this, it instantly became a pushy recipe Dear Reader (aka a recipe I urge you all to make!)."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Recipe:\nLahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas Recipe »\nSpicy, delicious and gloriously thin, this Lahmacun is one of those recipes that nags at you until you make it. Traditionally topped with lamb but equally wonderful with beef, it's a cheese-less, paper‑thin pizza piled with a generous, moist mince mixture - simple to pull together and utterly moreish. After one bite it became a pushy recipe, Dear Reader: I insist you try it.\nLahm bi'ajin, lamadjo, lahmacune, lahmajun and lahmajoon (all meaning \"meat with dough\") are just some of the names for this delicious mince meat topped pizza. It is a dish common across some countries in the Ottoman Empire eg Turkey, Armenian, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. I'm not qualified to tell you who invented this but I have to tell you that you must make it. If you were intimidated by making pizza dough from scratch give this a go.\nI was actually prompted to try this recipe by a Dear Reader, Gihan Touma who used my\ntomato pizza base to make Manoosh\n. I made both this and a manoosh and it was fantastic. I love making the bread using the overnight rise because it is just mixing in a bowl with a spatula rather than using a dough hook in a mixer. Overnight fermentation is better for anyone with gluten intolerances too (although this is obviously not suitable for coeliacs).\nDon't have time to wait overnight?\nKnead this dough mixture in a mixer with a dough hook until smooth in texture (around 5 minutes) or by hand (around 10 minutes). Leave this in warm place to rise to double in size for 1-1.5 hours.\nThe spice mix list may look long but trust me, it's worth it. I have tried this a few times and have never quite hit that food orgasm stage until I arrived at this particular spice mix. Also if you don't want to make the base, the filling is delicious on ready made flatbreads. Just top and bake in the oven.\nSourdough version:\nreplace the instant dried yeast with 100g\/3.5ozs. of sourdough starter in summer or 200g\/7ozs. starter in winter.\nCheese or no cheese?\nA lahmacun has no cheese on it and I tried adding mozzarella cheese and do you know what? It isn't as good (and I thought cheese solved all of life's issues)! Feta works better than mozzarella but really it's best as it is and cheese-less.\nThere should be a category of food. Food that you enjoy standing up. It includes food eaten at the kitchen bench or sink. Like food you cannot stop eating. Remember that book \"French women never get fat?\" It advocated setting a nice table, using nice plates and making a ceremony out of eating. That's great but there should be a follow up called, \"I ate it while standing up and didn't care cos it's 2020.\"\nI recently gave Ivy some\nstrawberry cinnamon buns\nand she messaged me, \"I ate TWO strawberry cinnamon scrolls standing up. So eff you. I'm now FAT.\"\nThis Lahmacun is similarly addictive. I had just finished eating lunch which was a salad and a mini pizza and then I ate one slice and then another slice. I could not stop, nor did I care to. So I give this to you with a modified warning, share this around or eat it all by yourself, just enjoy every bite!\nSo tell me Dear Reader, do you sometimes just eat food while standing up because it's so good you can't move or stop? Have you ever tried lahmacun?\nLahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas\nAn Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott\nPreparation time: 30 minutes plus overnight or 1.5 hours resting time\nCooking time: 15 minutes per pizza\nMakes 4 pizzas\nStart this recipe the day before if you can\nFor dough\n600g\/21.2ozs. flour\n2 teaspoons instant dried yeast\n2 teaspoons garlic powder\n450ml\/15flozs. water\n3 teaspoons salt\n1 tablespoon oil\nFor topping\n2 onions, peeled\n4 cloves garlic, peeled\n5 cherry tomatoes or 1 tomato\n4 tablespoons\/80g\/3ozs tomato paste\n20g\/1 cup parsley leaves\n2 large red chillies\n500g\/1.1lbs minced lamb or beef (lamb is traditional)\n2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses\n3 teaspoons of salt (or to taste)\n2 teaspoons smoked paprika\n2 teaspoons Turkish Aleppo chilli or cayenne chilli powder\n2 teaspoons cumin seeds\n1 teaspoon sumac\n1 teaspoon black pepper\n1\/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon\nTo serve:\nFresh parsley and lemon wedges\nAfter overnight rise\nStep 1 -\nMake the dough first by whisking the flour, yeast and garlic powder together in a very large bowl. Dissolve the salt into the water and then mix into the flour mixture and make sure that there isn't any dry flour bits. With a silicon spatula shape into a ballish shape (it won't be overly stiff) and drizzle with oil and cover and leave to rise overnight.\nSee above for quicker method if you don't have time to wait overnight.\nStep 2 -\nMake the filling. Place the onions, garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley and chillies in a food processor and chop until fine. Add the mince, pomegranate molasses, salt, smoked paprika, chilli, cumin seeds, sumac, black pepper and cinnamon and process until smooth in texture. I always try the mixture by heating it up and tasting it because you need to check it for seasoning.\nStep 3 -\nPreheat oven to 230C\/460F and have a few 30cm\/11.8inch pizza trays ready (you can also do this on parchment, the pizza trays just help to keep it in a round shape). Have a bowl of flour for sprinkling ready. Oil your hands and section the dough into quarters. Take a round pizza tray and sprinkle with flour. Shape dough into a ball and press out. You may need to rest it for 5 minutes or so while stretching it out. The dough should be thin and even (unlike say a Neapolitan pizza where the edges are puffy). Spread the beef mixture over the top reaching to the edge. Bake for 15 minutes. Serve with fresh lemon and parsley.","attrs_markdown":"[![Not Quite Nigella](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/logo.webp)](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/ \"Not Quite Nigella\")\n\n[Recipes](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/recipes\/) [Restaurants](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/restaurants\/) [Travel](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/travel\/)\n\n# Lahmacun Mince Pizza Recipe\n❤️ Share your love for [delicious food](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/) on   [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitenigella.com%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Feasy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe%2F&t=Lahmacun%20Mince%20Pizza%20Recipe \"Share on Facebook\"),   [Twitter](https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?source=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitenigella.com%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Feasy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe%2F&text=Lahmacun%20Mince%20Pizza%20Recipe%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitenigella.com%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Feasy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe%2F&via=NotQuiteNigella \"Tweet\"),   [Pinterest](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2020\/10\/05\/easy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe\/ \"Pin it\")   and [Email](mailto:?subject=Lahmacun%20Mince%20Pizza%20Recipe&amp;body=Hey%20%5BRecipient's%20Name%5D!%0A%0AI%20hope%20you're%20doing%20great!%20I%20came%20across%20a%20great%20blog%20post%20from%20Not%20Quite%20Nigella%20that%20I%20thought%20would%20be%20right%20up%20your%20alley.%20Check%20it%20out%20by%20clicking%20on%20the%20link%20below%3A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitenigella.com%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Feasy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe%2F%0A%0AI%20can't%20wait%20to%20hear%20your%20thoughts%20on%20it!%0A%0ATake%20care%2C%0A%5BYour%20Name%5D \"Email\")  ❤️\n\nRecipe: [Lahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas Recipe »](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2020\/10\/05\/easy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe\/#recipe)\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-07.webp)\n\n*Spicy, delicious and gloriously thin, this Lahmacun is one of those recipes that nags at you until you make it. Traditionally topped with lamb but equally wonderful with beef, it's a cheese-less, paper‑thin pizza piled with a generous, moist mince mixture - simple to pull together and utterly moreish. After one bite it became a pushy recipe, Dear Reader: I insist you try it.*\n\nLahm bi'ajin, lamadjo, lahmacune, lahmajun and lahmajoon (all meaning \"meat with dough\") are just some of the names for this delicious mince meat topped pizza. It is a dish common across some countries in the Ottoman Empire eg Turkey, Armenian, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. I'm not qualified to tell you who invented this but I have to tell you that you must make it. If you were intimidated by making pizza dough from scratch give this a go.\n\nI was actually prompted to try this recipe by a Dear Reader, Gihan Touma who used my [tomato pizza base to make Manoosh](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2020\/04\/14\/easy-no-knead-bread-margarita-pizza\/). I made both this and a manoosh and it was fantastic. I love making the bread using the overnight rise because it is just mixing in a bowl with a spatula rather than using a dough hook in a mixer. Overnight fermentation is better for anyone with gluten intolerances too (although this is obviously not suitable for coeliacs).\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-06.webp)\n\n**Don't have time to wait overnight?** Knead this dough mixture in a mixer with a dough hook until smooth in texture (around 5 minutes) or by hand (around 10 minutes). Leave this in warm place to rise to double in size for 1-1.5 hours.\n\nThe spice mix list may look long but trust me, it's worth it. I have tried this a few times and have never quite hit that food orgasm stage until I arrived at this particular spice mix. Also if you don't want to make the base, the filling is delicious on ready made flatbreads. Just top and bake in the oven.\n\n**Sourdough version:** replace the instant dried yeast with 100g\/3.5ozs. of sourdough starter in summer or 200g\/7ozs. starter in winter.\n\n**Cheese or no cheese?** A lahmacun has no cheese on it and I tried adding mozzarella cheese and do you know what? It isn't as good (and I thought cheese solved all of life's issues)! Feta works better than mozzarella but really it's best as it is and cheese-less.\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-10.webp)\n\nThere should be a category of food. Food that you enjoy standing up. It includes food eaten at the kitchen bench or sink. Like food you cannot stop eating. Remember that book \"French women never get fat?\" It advocated setting a nice table, using nice plates and making a ceremony out of eating. That's great but there should be a follow up called, \"I ate it while standing up and didn't care cos it's 2020.\"\n\nI recently gave Ivy some [strawberry cinnamon buns](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2020\/09\/14\/strawberry-cinnamon-buns\/) and she messaged me, \"I ate TWO strawberry cinnamon scrolls standing up. So eff you. I'm now FAT.\"\n\nThis Lahmacun is similarly addictive. I had just finished eating lunch which was a salad and a mini pizza and then I ate one slice and then another slice. I could not stop, nor did I care to. So I give this to you with a modified warning, share this around or eat it all by yourself, just enjoy every bite\\!\n\nSo tell me Dear Reader, do you sometimes just eat food while standing up because it's so good you can't move or stop? Have you ever tried lahmacun?\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-12.webp)\n\n## Lahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas\n\nDid you make this recipe? Share your creations by tagging @notquitenigella on Instagram with the hashtag \\#notquitenigella\n\nRated 5 out of 5 by 19 lovely readers. Share your rating:\n\n[Print Recipe]()\n\nAn Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott\n\nPreparation time: 30 minutes plus overnight or 1.5 hours resting time\n\nCooking time: 15 minutes per pizza\n\nMakes 4 pizzas\n\nStart this recipe the day before if you can\n\nFor dough\n\n- 600g\/21.2ozs. flour\n- 2 teaspoons instant dried yeast\n- 2 teaspoons garlic powder\n- 450ml\/15flozs. water\n- 3 teaspoons salt\n- 1 tablespoon oil\n\nFor topping\n\n- 2 onions, peeled\n- 4 cloves garlic, peeled\n- 5 cherry tomatoes or 1 tomato\n- 4 tablespoons\/80g\/3ozs tomato paste\n- 20g\/1 cup parsley leaves\n- 2 large red chillies\n- 500g\/1.1lbs minced lamb or beef (lamb is traditional)\n- 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses\n- 3 teaspoons of salt (or to taste)\n- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika\n- 2 teaspoons Turkish Aleppo chilli or cayenne chilli powder\n- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds\n- 1 teaspoon sumac\n- 1 teaspoon black pepper\n- 1\/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n\nTo serve:\n\n- Fresh parsley and lemon wedges\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-02.webp)\n\nAfter overnight rise\n\n**Step 1 -** Make the dough first by whisking the flour, yeast and garlic powder together in a very large bowl. Dissolve the salt into the water and then mix into the flour mixture and make sure that there isn't any dry flour bits. With a silicon spatula shape into a ballish shape (it won't be overly stiff) and drizzle with oil and cover and leave to rise overnight. **See above for quicker method if you don't have time to wait overnight.**\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-01.webp)\n\n**Step 2 -** Make the filling. Place the onions, garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley and chillies in a food processor and chop until fine. Add the mince, pomegranate molasses, salt, smoked paprika, chilli, cumin seeds, sumac, black pepper and cinnamon and process until smooth in texture. I always try the mixture by heating it up and tasting it because you need to check it for seasoning.\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-03.webp)\n\n**Step 3 -** Preheat oven to 230C\/460F and have a few 30cm\/11.8inch pizza trays ready (you can also do this on parchment, the pizza trays just help to keep it in a round shape). Have a bowl of flour for sprinkling ready. Oil your hands and section the dough into quarters. Take a round pizza tray and sprinkle with flour. Shape dough into a ball and press out. You may need to rest it for 5 minutes or so while stretching it out. The dough should be thin and even (unlike say a Neapolitan pizza where the edges are puffy). Spread the beef mixture over the top reaching to the edge. Bake for 15 minutes. Serve with fresh lemon and parsley.\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-05.webp)\n\n**Lahmacun Mince Pizza Recipe** was written by **Lorraine Elliott** and published on Monday, October 5, 2020 in [Delicious Recipes](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/recipes\/), [Budget Recipes](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/categories\/recipes\/affordable-recipes\/), [Pizza Recipes](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/categories\/recipes\/pizza-recipes\/), [Beef Recipes](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/categories\/recipes\/beef-recipes\/) and [Bread Recipes](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/categories\/recipes\/breads\/).\n\nNext Story: [Mexican Spaghetti](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2018\/11\/09\/mexican-beef-spaghetti\/)\n\nMore Delicious Recipes:  \n » [Easy No Knead Pizza Dough Recipe](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2020\/05\/11\/best-pizza-dough-no-knead\/)   \n » [Top 5 Beef Short Rib Recipes To Warm You Up\\!](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2023\/06\/09\/top-5-beef-short-rib-recipes\/)   \n » [Easy Pizza Dough Recipe](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2025\/02\/12\/recipe-for-pizza-dough\/)   \n » [15 Minute Ground Beef Turkish Pasta Recipe](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2024\/12\/15\/ground-beef-turkish-pasta\/)   \n » [Spelt Pizza](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2018\/04\/11\/spelt-pizza-dough-healthy-pizza\/)   \n » [Hawawshi Stuffed Pita](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2017\/03\/27\/hawawshi-beef-stuffed-pita-bread\/)   \n » [Classic Beef Pot Roast with Chuck Roast and Luscious Gravy](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2022\/06\/27\/beef-pot-roast\/)   \n » [Chinese Eggplant & Mince Stir Fry Recipe](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2021\/03\/26\/eggplant-mince-asian\/)   \n » [Salmon Sashimi Pizza Easy](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2014\/07\/03\/salmon-sashimi-pizza\/)\n\n❤️ Share your love for [delicious food](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/) on   [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitenigella.com%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Feasy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe%2F&t=Lahmacun%20Mince%20Pizza%20Recipe \"Share on Facebook\"),   [Twitter](https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?source=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitenigella.com%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Feasy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe%2F&text=Lahmacun%20Mince%20Pizza%20Recipe%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitenigella.com%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Feasy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe%2F&via=NotQuiteNigella \"Tweet\"),   [Pinterest](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2020\/10\/05\/easy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe\/ \"Pin it\")   and [Email](mailto:?subject=Lahmacun%20Mince%20Pizza%20Recipe&amp;body=Hey%20%5BRecipient's%20Name%5D!%0A%0AI%20hope%20you're%20doing%20great!%20I%20came%20across%20a%20great%20blog%20post%20from%20Not%20Quite%20Nigella%20that%20I%20thought%20would%20be%20right%20up%20your%20alley.%20Check%20it%20out%20by%20clicking%20on%20the%20link%20below%3A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitenigella.com%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Feasy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe%2F%0A%0AI%20can't%20wait%20to%20hear%20your%20thoughts%20on%20it!%0A%0ATake%20care%2C%0A%5BYour%20Name%5D \"Email\")  ❤️\n\n## Reader Comments\nLoading comments...\n\n### Add Comment\n## Latest Stories\n- [Big Flavours & Only 14 Seats: Tida Persian Restaurant, Willoughby](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2026\/04\/07\/tida-persian-willoughby\/)\n- [Scotch Finger Caramel Slice - Viral Recipe](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2026\/04\/06\/caramel-slice-recipe\/)\n- [Dill Pickle Dip - Viral Recipe](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2026\/04\/05\/dill-pickle-dip\/)\n- [Top 12 Local Da Nang Foods To Try and Where To Find Them\\!](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2026\/04\/04\/da-nang-food-restaurant\/)\n- [Delicious 5 Course Easter Menu Recipe Ideas](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2026\/04\/03\/5-course-easter-menu\/)\n\n## Trending\n- [Dubai Chocolate](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2024\/09\/16\/dubai-chocolate-recipe\/)\n- [Crumbl Cookies](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2023\/06\/05\/crumbl-cookies-recipe\/)\n- [Pumpkin Soup](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2022\/06\/13\/best-pumpkin-soup\/)\n- [Onion Bhaji](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2023\/05\/10\/onion-bhaji\/)\n- [Peri Peri Chicken](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2023\/02\/13\/peri-peri-chicken-portuguese\/)\n\n### About Lorraine Elliott\n[![Lorraine Elliott](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/lorraine-elliott.webp) Hi! I'm Lorraine Elliott and I've been blogging full time for 19 years. 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Traditionally topped with lamb but equally wonderful with beef, it's a cheese-less, paper‑thin pizza piled with a generous, moist mince mixture - simple to pull together and utterly moreish. After one bite it became a pushy recipe, Dear Reader: I insist you try it.*\n\nLahm bi'ajin, lamadjo, lahmacune, lahmajun and lahmajoon (all meaning \"meat with dough\") are just some of the names for this delicious mince meat topped pizza. It is a dish common across some countries in the Ottoman Empire eg Turkey, Armenian, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. I'm not qualified to tell you who invented this but I have to tell you that you must make it. If you were intimidated by making pizza dough from scratch give this a go.\n\nI was actually prompted to try this recipe by a Dear Reader, Gihan Touma who used my [tomato pizza base to make Manoosh](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2020\/04\/14\/easy-no-knead-bread-margarita-pizza\/). I made both this and a manoosh and it was fantastic. I love making the bread using the overnight rise because it is just mixing in a bowl with a spatula rather than using a dough hook in a mixer. Overnight fermentation is better for anyone with gluten intolerances too (although this is obviously not suitable for coeliacs).\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-06.webp)\n\n**Don't have time to wait overnight?** Knead this dough mixture in a mixer with a dough hook until smooth in texture (around 5 minutes) or by hand (around 10 minutes). Leave this in warm place to rise to double in size for 1-1.5 hours.\n\nThe spice mix list may look long but trust me, it's worth it. I have tried this a few times and have never quite hit that food orgasm stage until I arrived at this particular spice mix. Also if you don't want to make the base, the filling is delicious on ready made flatbreads. Just top and bake in the oven.\n\n**Sourdough version:** replace the instant dried yeast with 100g\/3.5ozs. of sourdough starter in summer or 200g\/7ozs. starter in winter.\n\n**Cheese or no cheese?** A lahmacun has no cheese on it and I tried adding mozzarella cheese and do you know what? It isn't as good (and I thought cheese solved all of life's issues)! Feta works better than mozzarella but really it's best as it is and cheese-less.\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-10.webp)\n\nThere should be a category of food. Food that you enjoy standing up. It includes food eaten at the kitchen bench or sink. Like food you cannot stop eating. Remember that book \"French women never get fat?\" It advocated setting a nice table, using nice plates and making a ceremony out of eating. That's great but there should be a follow up called, \"I ate it while standing up and didn't care cos it's 2020.\"\n\nI recently gave Ivy some [strawberry cinnamon buns](https:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2020\/09\/14\/strawberry-cinnamon-buns\/) and she messaged me, \"I ate TWO strawberry cinnamon scrolls standing up. So eff you. I'm now FAT.\"\n\nThis Lahmacun is similarly addictive. I had just finished eating lunch which was a salad and a mini pizza and then I ate one slice and then another slice. I could not stop, nor did I care to. So I give this to you with a modified warning, share this around or eat it all by yourself, just enjoy every bite\\!\n\nSo tell me Dear Reader, do you sometimes just eat food while standing up because it's so good you can't move or stop? Have you ever tried lahmacun?\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-12.webp)\n\n## Lahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas\n\nAn Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott\n\nPreparation time: 30 minutes plus overnight or 1.5 hours resting time\n\nCooking time: 15 minutes per pizza\n\nMakes 4 pizzas\n\nStart this recipe the day before if you can\n\nFor dough\n\n- 600g\/21.2ozs. flour\n- 2 teaspoons instant dried yeast\n- 2 teaspoons garlic powder\n- 450ml\/15flozs. water\n- 3 teaspoons salt\n- 1 tablespoon oil\n\nFor topping\n\n- 2 onions, peeled\n- 4 cloves garlic, peeled\n- 5 cherry tomatoes or 1 tomato\n- 4 tablespoons\/80g\/3ozs tomato paste\n- 20g\/1 cup parsley leaves\n- 2 large red chillies\n- 500g\/1.1lbs minced lamb or beef (lamb is traditional)\n- 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses\n- 3 teaspoons of salt (or to taste)\n- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika\n- 2 teaspoons Turkish Aleppo chilli or cayenne chilli powder\n- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds\n- 1 teaspoon sumac\n- 1 teaspoon black pepper\n- 1\/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon\n\nTo serve:\n\n- Fresh parsley and lemon wedges\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-02.webp)\n\nAfter overnight rise\n\n**Step 1 -** Make the dough first by whisking the flour, yeast and garlic powder together in a very large bowl. Dissolve the salt into the water and then mix into the flour mixture and make sure that there isn't any dry flour bits. With a silicon spatula shape into a ballish shape (it won't be overly stiff) and drizzle with oil and cover and leave to rise overnight. **See above for quicker method if you don't have time to wait overnight.**\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-01.webp)\n\n**Step 2 -** Make the filling. Place the onions, garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley and chillies in a food processor and chop until fine. Add the mince, pomegranate molasses, salt, smoked paprika, chilli, cumin seeds, sumac, black pepper and cinnamon and process until smooth in texture. I always try the mixture by heating it up and tasting it because you need to check it for seasoning.\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-03.webp)\n\n**Step 3 -** Preheat oven to 230C\/460F and have a few 30cm\/11.8inch pizza trays ready (you can also do this on parchment, the pizza trays just help to keep it in a round shape). Have a bowl of flour for sprinkling ready. Oil your hands and section the dough into quarters. Take a round pizza tray and sprinkle with flour. Shape dough into a ball and press out. You may need to rest it for 5 minutes or so while stretching it out. The dough should be thin and even (unlike say a Neapolitan pizza where the edges are puffy). Spread the beef mixture over the top reaching to the edge. Bake for 15 minutes. Serve with fresh lemon and parsley.\n\n![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https:\/\/images.notquitenigella.com\/images\/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza\/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-05.webp)","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Recipe: Lahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas Recipe » Spicy, delicious and gloriously thin, this Lahmacun is one of those recipes that nags at you until you make it. Traditionally topped with lamb but equally wonderful with beef, it's a cheese-less, paper‑thin pizza piled with a generous, moist mince mixture - simple to pull together and utterly moreish. After one bite it became a pushy recipe, Dear Reader: I insist you try it. Lahm bi'ajin, lamadjo, lahmacune, lahmajun and lahmajoon (all meaning "meat with dough") are just some of the names for this delicious mince meat topped pizza. It is a dish common across some countries in the Ottoman Empire eg Turkey, Armenian, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. I'm not qualified to tell you who invented this but I have to tell you that you must make it. If you were intimidated by making pizza dough from scratch give this a go. I was actually prompted to try this recipe by a Dear Reader, Gihan Touma who used my tomato pizza base to make Manoosh . I made both this and a manoosh and it was fantastic. I love making the bread using the overnight rise because it is just mixing in a bowl with a spatula rather than using a dough hook in a mixer. Overnight fermentation is better for anyone with gluten intolerances too (although this is obviously not suitable for coeliacs). Don't have time to wait overnight? Knead this dough mixture in a mixer with a dough hook until smooth in texture (around 5 minutes) or by hand (around 10 minutes). Leave this in warm place to rise to double in size for 1-1.5 hours. The spice mix list may look long but trust me, it's worth it. I have tried this a few times and have never quite hit that food orgasm stage until I arrived at this particular spice mix. Also if you don't want to make the base, the filling is delicious on ready made flatbreads. Just top and bake in the oven. Sourdough version: replace the instant dried yeast with 100g/3.5ozs. of sourdough starter in summer or 200g/7ozs. starter in winter. Cheese or no cheese? A lahmacun has no cheese on it and I tried adding mozzarella cheese and do you know what? It isn't as good (and I thought cheese solved all of life's issues)! Feta works better than mozzarella but really it's best as it is and cheese-less. There should be a category of food. Food that you enjoy standing up. It includes food eaten at the kitchen bench or sink. Like food you cannot stop eating. Remember that book "French women never get fat?" It advocated setting a nice table, using nice plates and making a ceremony out of eating. That's great but there should be a follow up called, "I ate it while standing up and didn't care cos it's 2020." I recently gave Ivy some strawberry cinnamon buns and she messaged me, "I ate TWO strawberry cinnamon scrolls standing up. So eff you. I'm now FAT." This Lahmacun is similarly addictive. I had just finished eating lunch which was a salad and a mini pizza and then I ate one slice and then another slice. I could not stop, nor did I care to. So I give this to you with a modified warning, share this around or eat it all by yourself, just enjoy every bite! So tell me Dear Reader, do you sometimes just eat food while standing up because it's so good you can't move or stop? Have you ever tried lahmacun? Lahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott Preparation time: 30 minutes plus overnight or 1.5 hours resting time Cooking time: 15 minutes per pizza Makes 4 pizzas Start this recipe the day before if you can For dough 600g/21.2ozs. flour 2 teaspoons instant dried yeast 2 teaspoons garlic powder 450ml/15flozs. water 3 teaspoons salt 1 tablespoon oil For topping 2 onions, peeled 4 cloves garlic, peeled 5 cherry tomatoes or 1 tomato 4 tablespoons/80g/3ozs tomato paste 20g/1 cup parsley leaves 2 large red chillies 500g/1.1lbs minced lamb or beef (lamb is traditional) 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses 3 teaspoons of salt (or to taste) 2 teaspoons smoked paprika 2 teaspoons Turkish Aleppo chilli or cayenne chilli powder 2 teaspoons cumin seeds 1 teaspoon sumac 1 teaspoon black pepper 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon To serve: Fresh parsley and lemon wedges After overnight rise Step 1 - Make the dough first by whisking the flour, yeast and garlic powder together in a very large bowl. Dissolve the salt into the water and then mix into the flour mixture and make sure that there isn't any dry flour bits. With a silicon spatula shape into a ballish shape (it won't be overly stiff) and drizzle with oil and cover and leave to rise overnight. See above for quicker method if you don't have time to wait overnight. Step 2 - Make the filling. Place the onions, garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley and chillies in a food processor and chop until fine. Add the mince, pomegranate molasses, salt, smoked paprika, chilli, cumin seeds, sumac, black pepper and cinnamon and process until smooth in texture. I always try the mixture by heating it up and tasting it because you need to check it for seasoning. Step 3 - Preheat oven to 230C/460F and have a few 30cm/11.8inch pizza trays ready (you can also do this on parchment, the pizza trays just help to keep it in a round shape). Have a bowl of flour for sprinkling ready. Oil your hands and section the dough into quarters. Take a round pizza tray and sprinkle with flour. Shape dough into a ball and press out. You may need to rest it for 5 minutes or so while stretching it out. The dough should be thin and even (unlike say a Neapolitan pizza where the edges are puffy). Spread the beef mixture over the top reaching to the edge. Bake for 15 minutes. Serve with fresh lemon and parsley.
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Traditionally topped with lamb but equally wonderful with beef, it's a cheese-less, paper‑thin pizza piled with a generous, moist mince mixture - simple to pull together and utterly moreish. After one bite it became a pushy recipe, Dear Reader: I insist you try it. Lahm bi'ajin, lamadjo, lahmacune, lahmajun and lahmajoon (all meaning "meat with dough") are just some of the names for this delicious mince meat topped pizza. It is a dish common across some countries in the Ottoman Empire eg Turkey, Armenian, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. I'm not qualified to tell you who invented this but I have to tell you that you must make it. If you were intimidated by making pizza dough from scratch give this a go. I was actually prompted to try this recipe by a Dear Reader, Gihan Touma who used my [tomato pizza base to make Manoosh](https://www.notquitenigella.com/2020/04/14/easy-no-knead-bread-margarita-pizza/). I made both this and a manoosh and it was fantastic. I love making the bread using the overnight rise because it is just mixing in a bowl with a spatula rather than using a dough hook in a mixer. Overnight fermentation is better for anyone with gluten intolerances too (although this is obviously not suitable for coeliacs). ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-06.webp) Don't have time to wait overnight? Knead this dough mixture in a mixer with a dough hook until smooth in texture (around 5 minutes) or by hand (around 10 minutes). Leave this in warm place to rise to double in size for 1-1.5 hours. The spice mix list may look long but trust me, it's worth it. I have tried this a few times and have never quite hit that food orgasm stage until I arrived at this particular spice mix. Also if you don't want to make the base, the filling is delicious on ready made flatbreads. Just top and bake in the oven. Sourdough version: replace the instant dried yeast with 100g/3.5ozs. of sourdough starter in summer or 200g/7ozs. starter in winter. Cheese or no cheese? A lahmacun has no cheese on it and I tried adding mozzarella cheese and do you know what? It isn't as good (and I thought cheese solved all of life's issues)! Feta works better than mozzarella but really it's best as it is and cheese-less. ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-10.webp) There should be a category of food. Food that you enjoy standing up. It includes food eaten at the kitchen bench or sink. Like food you cannot stop eating. Remember that book "French women never get fat?" It advocated setting a nice table, using nice plates and making a ceremony out of eating. That's great but there should be a follow up called, "I ate it while standing up and didn't care cos it's 2020." I recently gave Ivy some [strawberry cinnamon buns](https://www.notquitenigella.com/2020/09/14/strawberry-cinnamon-buns/) and she messaged me, "I ate TWO strawberry cinnamon scrolls standing up. So eff you. I'm now FAT." This Lahmacun is similarly addictive. I had just finished eating lunch which was a salad and a mini pizza and then I ate one slice and then another slice. I could not stop, nor did I care to. So I give this to you with a modified warning, share this around or eat it all by yourself, just enjoy every bite\! So tell me Dear Reader, do you sometimes just eat food while standing up because it's so good you can't move or stop? Have you ever tried lahmacun? ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-12.webp) ## Lahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas Did you make this recipe? Share your creations by tagging @notquitenigella on Instagram with the hashtag \#notquitenigella Rated 5 out of 5 by 19 lovely readers. Share your rating: [Print Recipe]() An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott Preparation time: 30 minutes plus overnight or 1.5 hours resting time Cooking time: 15 minutes per pizza Makes 4 pizzas Start this recipe the day before if you can For dough - 600g/21.2ozs. flour - 2 teaspoons instant dried yeast - 2 teaspoons garlic powder - 450ml/15flozs. water - 3 teaspoons salt - 1 tablespoon oil For topping - 2 onions, peeled - 4 cloves garlic, peeled - 5 cherry tomatoes or 1 tomato - 4 tablespoons/80g/3ozs tomato paste - 20g/1 cup parsley leaves - 2 large red chillies - 500g/1.1lbs minced lamb or beef (lamb is traditional) - 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses - 3 teaspoons of salt (or to taste) - 2 teaspoons smoked paprika - 2 teaspoons Turkish Aleppo chilli or cayenne chilli powder - 2 teaspoons cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon sumac - 1 teaspoon black pepper - 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon To serve: - Fresh parsley and lemon wedges ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-02.webp) After overnight rise Step 1 - Make the dough first by whisking the flour, yeast and garlic powder together in a very large bowl. Dissolve the salt into the water and then mix into the flour mixture and make sure that there isn't any dry flour bits. With a silicon spatula shape into a ballish shape (it won't be overly stiff) and drizzle with oil and cover and leave to rise overnight. See above for quicker method if you don't have time to wait overnight. ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-01.webp) Step 2 - Make the filling. Place the onions, garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley and chillies in a food processor and chop until fine. Add the mince, pomegranate molasses, salt, smoked paprika, chilli, cumin seeds, sumac, black pepper and cinnamon and process until smooth in texture. I always try the mixture by heating it up and tasting it because you need to check it for seasoning. ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-03.webp) Step 3 - Preheat oven to 230C/460F and have a few 30cm/11.8inch pizza trays ready (you can also do this on parchment, the pizza trays just help to keep it in a round shape). Have a bowl of flour for sprinkling ready. Oil your hands and section the dough into quarters. Take a round pizza tray and sprinkle with flour. Shape dough into a ball and press out. You may need to rest it for 5 minutes or so while stretching it out. The dough should be thin and even (unlike say a Neapolitan pizza where the edges are puffy). Spread the beef mixture over the top reaching to the edge. Bake for 15 minutes. Serve with fresh lemon and parsley. ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-05.webp) Lahmacun Mince Pizza Recipe was written by Lorraine Elliott and published on Monday, October 5, 2020 in [Delicious Recipes](https://www.notquitenigella.com/recipes/), [Budget Recipes](https://www.notquitenigella.com/categories/recipes/affordable-recipes/), [Pizza Recipes](https://www.notquitenigella.com/categories/recipes/pizza-recipes/), [Beef Recipes](https://www.notquitenigella.com/categories/recipes/beef-recipes/) and [Bread Recipes](https://www.notquitenigella.com/categories/recipes/breads/). 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Readable Markdown	Recipe: [Lahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas Recipe »](https://www.notquitenigella.com/2020/10/05/easy-lahmacun-pizza-recipe/#recipe) ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-07.webp) Spicy, delicious and gloriously thin, this Lahmacun is one of those recipes that nags at you until you make it. Traditionally topped with lamb but equally wonderful with beef, it's a cheese-less, paper‑thin pizza piled with a generous, moist mince mixture - simple to pull together and utterly moreish. After one bite it became a pushy recipe, Dear Reader: I insist you try it. Lahm bi'ajin, lamadjo, lahmacune, lahmajun and lahmajoon (all meaning "meat with dough") are just some of the names for this delicious mince meat topped pizza. It is a dish common across some countries in the Ottoman Empire eg Turkey, Armenian, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. I'm not qualified to tell you who invented this but I have to tell you that you must make it. If you were intimidated by making pizza dough from scratch give this a go. I was actually prompted to try this recipe by a Dear Reader, Gihan Touma who used my [tomato pizza base to make Manoosh](https://www.notquitenigella.com/2020/04/14/easy-no-knead-bread-margarita-pizza/). I made both this and a manoosh and it was fantastic. I love making the bread using the overnight rise because it is just mixing in a bowl with a spatula rather than using a dough hook in a mixer. Overnight fermentation is better for anyone with gluten intolerances too (although this is obviously not suitable for coeliacs). ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-06.webp) Don't have time to wait overnight? Knead this dough mixture in a mixer with a dough hook until smooth in texture (around 5 minutes) or by hand (around 10 minutes). Leave this in warm place to rise to double in size for 1-1.5 hours. The spice mix list may look long but trust me, it's worth it. I have tried this a few times and have never quite hit that food orgasm stage until I arrived at this particular spice mix. Also if you don't want to make the base, the filling is delicious on ready made flatbreads. Just top and bake in the oven. Sourdough version: replace the instant dried yeast with 100g/3.5ozs. of sourdough starter in summer or 200g/7ozs. starter in winter. Cheese or no cheese? A lahmacun has no cheese on it and I tried adding mozzarella cheese and do you know what? It isn't as good (and I thought cheese solved all of life's issues)! Feta works better than mozzarella but really it's best as it is and cheese-less. ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-10.webp) There should be a category of food. Food that you enjoy standing up. It includes food eaten at the kitchen bench or sink. Like food you cannot stop eating. Remember that book "French women never get fat?" It advocated setting a nice table, using nice plates and making a ceremony out of eating. That's great but there should be a follow up called, "I ate it while standing up and didn't care cos it's 2020." I recently gave Ivy some [strawberry cinnamon buns](https://www.notquitenigella.com/2020/09/14/strawberry-cinnamon-buns/) and she messaged me, "I ate TWO strawberry cinnamon scrolls standing up. So eff you. I'm now FAT." This Lahmacun is similarly addictive. I had just finished eating lunch which was a salad and a mini pizza and then I ate one slice and then another slice. I could not stop, nor did I care to. So I give this to you with a modified warning, share this around or eat it all by yourself, just enjoy every bite\! So tell me Dear Reader, do you sometimes just eat food while standing up because it's so good you can't move or stop? Have you ever tried lahmacun? ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-12.webp) ## Lahmacun Turkish Spicy Mince Pizzas An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott Preparation time: 30 minutes plus overnight or 1.5 hours resting time Cooking time: 15 minutes per pizza Makes 4 pizzas Start this recipe the day before if you can For dough - 600g/21.2ozs. flour - 2 teaspoons instant dried yeast - 2 teaspoons garlic powder - 450ml/15flozs. water - 3 teaspoons salt - 1 tablespoon oil For topping - 2 onions, peeled - 4 cloves garlic, peeled - 5 cherry tomatoes or 1 tomato - 4 tablespoons/80g/3ozs tomato paste - 20g/1 cup parsley leaves - 2 large red chillies - 500g/1.1lbs minced lamb or beef (lamb is traditional) - 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses - 3 teaspoons of salt (or to taste) - 2 teaspoons smoked paprika - 2 teaspoons Turkish Aleppo chilli or cayenne chilli powder - 2 teaspoons cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon sumac - 1 teaspoon black pepper - 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon To serve: - Fresh parsley and lemon wedges ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-02.webp) After overnight rise Step 1 - Make the dough first by whisking the flour, yeast and garlic powder together in a very large bowl. Dissolve the salt into the water and then mix into the flour mixture and make sure that there isn't any dry flour bits. With a silicon spatula shape into a ballish shape (it won't be overly stiff) and drizzle with oil and cover and leave to rise overnight. See above for quicker method if you don't have time to wait overnight. ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-01.webp) Step 2 - Make the filling. Place the onions, garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley and chillies in a food processor and chop until fine. Add the mince, pomegranate molasses, salt, smoked paprika, chilli, cumin seeds, sumac, black pepper and cinnamon and process until smooth in texture. I always try the mixture by heating it up and tasting it because you need to check it for seasoning. ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-03.webp) Step 3 - Preheat oven to 230C/460F and have a few 30cm/11.8inch pizza trays ready (you can also do this on parchment, the pizza trays just help to keep it in a round shape). Have a bowl of flour for sprinkling ready. Oil your hands and section the dough into quarters. Take a round pizza tray and sprinkle with flour. Shape dough into a ball and press out. You may need to rest it for 5 minutes or so while stretching it out. The dough should be thin and even (unlike say a Neapolitan pizza where the edges are puffy). Spread the beef mixture over the top reaching to the edge. Bake for 15 minutes. Serve with fresh lemon and parsley. ![Easy Lahmacun Middle Eastern Spicy Mince Pizzas](https://images.notquitenigella.com/images/lahmacun-recipe-turkish-pizza/lahmacun-recipe-middle-eastern-pizza-05.webp)
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