Go Back
–+ servings

Vegan Turkish Pizza (Lahmacun)

Roll out pizza dough on a wooden board. Spread seasoned plant-based minced meat mixture, slide it in the oven on a hot pizza stone, bake for a short time, and serve with seasoned vegan yogurt or tahini sauce. You can replace the crust with a pita.
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Servings: 4
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
 
 

Four to Five Servings or 10 Pita Servings
  • 415 gram store-bought chilled rolled pizza dough or five pita
  • ½ red bell pepper, cleaned and cut into 4-5 pieces
  • 1 small onion peeled and cut into four
  • 2-3 cloves of garlic, peeled
  • 20 stems parsley leaves
  • 250 gram vegan minced meat, such as beyond
  • 2 Tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 Tablespoon tomato paste
Seasoning Mixture
For Serving
  • Tahini Dressing (raw tahini, lemon juice, minced garlic, water)
  • Vegan yogurt mixed with minced garlic and olive oil
  • Lemon wedge

Equipment

Method
 

  1. Put the pizza stone in the oven, on the lowest level. .
  2. Heat the oven to 250-270 degrees Celsius (482 – 525 F). The hotter, the better. (in some ovens, the highest temperature is 250 degrees Celsius (482 F)
  3. Finely chop the onion, garlic, parsley, and pepper. You can use a food processor. Take out and transfer to a bowl.
  4. Add the vegan minced meat, tomato paste, olive oil, and the seasoning mixture to the bowl and mix well.
  5. Flour a large wooden board or a pizza peel wood
  6. Open the pizza dough and flour the top part of the dough well. Then, turn the dough on the floured Pizza Peel Wood so the sheet of paper faces up.
  7. Important: shake the wooden board back and forth to make sure that the dough slides freely on it; Otherwise – turn the dough back onto the work surface and flour the wooden board and the dough with more flour. Remove the paper.
  8. Spread the mixture evenly, leaving a clean margin about 1 cm (0.4-Inch) wide.
  9. Slide on the stone and bake for about 10 minutes until the edges of the dough are nicely golden-brown.
  10. Cut into four portions and serve with lemon wedges, tahini sauce, or vegan yogurt mixed with minced garlic, olive oil, and parsley leaves.
Baking with Pita
  1. Cut the pita bread in half so you get 10 round pieces. Place the pita bread on a baking tray, the soft part facing up. Spray with olive oil - especially on the edges.
  2. Spread one tablespoon of the minced mixture on each pita, leaving clean edges.
  3. Bake in the center of the oven for about eight minutes until the edges are browned.
  4. Feel free to play with the amounts of spices - reduce or add according to taste.

Notes

You can get a pizza stone today at an affordable price, an excellent investment for those who like to make pizzas and focaccia at home.
At the same time, if you don't have a stone, you can use a perforated pizza pan or place the pizza on a turned-over oven tray lined with baking paper. Remember that the dough will not be as crunchy as a stone-baked dough.
To get a thin layer of ground meat, use half the amount of the meat mixture.
Based on a recipe from The Mediterranean Dish

Tried this recipe?

Let us know how it was!