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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.
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Servings 4

Equipment

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

Instructions
 

  • Put the pizza stone in the oven, on the lowest level. .
  • 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)
  • Finely chop the onion, garlic, parsley, and pepper. You can use a food processor. Take out and transfer to a bowl.
  • Add the vegan minced meat, tomato paste, olive oil, and the seasoning mixture to the bowl and mix well.
  • Flour a large wooden board or a pizza peel wood
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Spread the mixture evenly, leaving a clean margin about 1 cm (0.4-Inch) wide.
  • Slide on the stone and bake for about 10 minutes until the edges of the dough are nicely golden-brown.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • Spread one tablespoon of the minced mixture on each pita, leaving clean edges.
  • Bake in the center of the oven for about eight minutes until the edges are browned.
  • 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
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