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Kebabs & Lahmacun

mickyjo

2010-04-19 18:21:51

Hi all,
We're off to Club Aida in June & was wondering where the best place to get Kebab/Kebaps and Lahmacun would be?
We've been to Marmaris twice before but have never found better than our Turkish Restaurant in London (obviously looking in the wrong place)

We're taking my Brother (who loves Kebabs) with us this time so really want to impress him

Also if anyone knows of a good takeaway near our hotel, that would be great!

Many thanks Jo

mobile fitter

2010-04-19 19:02:27

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

Pardon my ignorance but what is Lahmacun? :que

Alan

Jay Trip

2010-04-19 19:15:01

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

If you go towards the Bazzar from the bus stop opposite Tansas just before you enter the covered area there is a lovely Turkish restaurant that do lovely Lahmachuns.I cant remember the name but it is opposite a small supermarket. :tup

Kedi Yavrusu

2010-04-19 19:46:00

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

mobile fitter wrote:
Pardon my ignorance but what is Lahmacun?

Lahmacun is a very thin kind of Turkish pizza topped with finely ground lamb and chillie, it is often eaten with squeezed lemon and salad and is very tasty!

groovybaby

2010-04-20 18:42:05

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

Lahmacun is more like a wrap than a pizza I find. Soft dough that you roll into a sausage shape :tup

Mickyjo where in London do you get your kebaps and lahmacun? I hear that north London is the place to go all around Green Lanes?
cheers
gb

Kedi Yavrusu

2010-04-20 19:49:19

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

It is made the same way as pizza though, with the same dough just rolled out very thin.

There are loads of good Turkish restaurants around Green Lanes and Haringay, we go there a fair bit.

Gooorooo

2010-04-20 19:53:13

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

Kedi I go to Turkish restaurants in Haringay too. Bloomin lovely!

groovybaby

2010-04-21 01:48:18

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Kedi lahmacun dough is nothing like pizza dough, its a different dough totally and you don't wrap pizza into a sausage shape like you do lahmacun and wraps. lahmacun dough it's deep pan and it isn't like crispy thin bread or any other type of pizza bases, its the same as a mexican wrap sweet.

my mate has a restaurant in turkey and all he does is lahmacun and that's how i know.
gb

Gooorooo

2010-04-21 06:03:37

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Here's a recipe or two:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/recipes/turkish-pizza-lahmacun-563118.html

http://www.edmundricetrust.org/gssng4/oxc.php?lahmacun-recipe

As Kedi is married to a Turk, and all the recipes I have found call it pizza - I am inclined to fall in the pizza not wrap camp!

blondiescot

2010-04-21 07:18:20

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groovybaby wrote:
Kedi lahmacun dough is nothing like pizza dough, its a different dough totally and you don't wrap pizza into a sausage shape like you do lahmacun and wraps. lahmacun dough it's deep pan and it isn't like crispy thin bread or any other type of pizza bases, its the same as a mexican wrap sweet. my mate has a restaurant in turkey and all he does is lahmacun and that's how i know.
gb

I don't think anyone's looking for an argument here - loads of websites and recipe books describe lahmacun as a form of Turkish pizza, and even the owner of our local pizza/kebab shop, who is Turkish, insists that's what it is, so maybe we should all just agree to disagree on this. Like I said, whatever you want to describe them as, they're all delicious anyway!

groovybaby

2010-04-21 08:41:40

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

Debbie scot I just replied to you on the other thread about lahmacuns. Lahmacun is NOT a pizza and no Turkish people describe it as pizza. They may tell you that coz your scottish and they think its easy for you to understand, not speaking the lingo or being a turk and all that, but I know for a fact lahmacun is not pizza. If it was pizza they wouldn't call it lahmacun. Turkish pizzas are called pide. Lahmacun is like a tortilla - it's a wrap. Even the turkish cookbook says that honey!

Why the fuss anyway?
Most of us on here know Turkey well and my Turkish mates and relatives probably know it a whole lot better - and they never call lahmacun pizza. It's a different thing altogether. :que

Dazbo HT Mod

2010-04-21 08:57:49

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

Can we just agree to disagree here please? Whether it's a pizza or a wrap, does it really matter? We're just going around in circles and duplicating posts over two threads and getting nowhere. I will lock the topic if needed.

Thanks,

Dazbo HT Mod

Kedi Yavrusu

2010-04-21 09:15:46

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

Groovybaby

My husband's mother and sisters make lahmacun and they make the dough exactly the same way as I would pizza dough, it is just rolled out very thin. All the lahmacun I have had is slightly crispy, it is never soft like tortilla wrap. I know the link from Binnur's Turkish cookbook says you can use tortilla wraps but that is not the way it would be made if you were doing it properly. Every other recipe I have seen says it is a kind of pizza and use the same dough as pizza dough too.

Yes, you do wrap it up but it isn't actually a wrap, the wraps like the Mexican tortillas are called durum in Turkey.

I asked my husband if he thought lahmacun was more a kind of pizza or a kind of tortilla and he says pizza so that is enough for me

Call it what you will I'm sure we all agree it is very tasty!

Jay Trip

2010-04-21 09:34:56

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

I cant wait for those lovely Lahmachums in Seray Zetas in a couple of weeks. :tup

The ones they sell have bases like Pizzas.
The ones I bought in Brighton was rolled up and was much thinner but it didnt taste as nice despite being twice the price. :rofl

Gooorooo

2010-04-21 09:43:20

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

This has made me :rofl

so much!

It reminds me of a discussion on another forum I go on about the difference between a barm/bap/roll/muffin

Kedi Yavrusu

2010-04-21 09:48:51

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

I'm beginning to feel hungry now all this talk of lahmacun

Jay Trip

2010-04-21 09:55:28

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

Im off to look at the photos of the ones I took in Seray Zetas last year. :tongue

blondiescot

2010-04-21 09:55:51

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

Groovybaby, like I said, and Dazbo has also stated, no-one wanted an argument on here - does it really matter as much as you seem to think? Why all the fuss, you ask? Seems to me you're the one making all the fuss. And in any case, quite frankly, I find your last post patronising in the least to suggest that just because I'm Scottish, I wouldn't understand about Turkish food or the language. Let's just keep the thread on topic, please...

greenshoes

2010-04-21 10:23:14

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

I find the best kebabs (Im Scottish too, so obviously too dumb to know what a wrap is :rofl

)down on the stalls near the harbour and along the beach front. Actually i tend to find the best food in Turkey to be the food in the local cafes and smaller places.

Our Turkish restaurant at home makes lovely food but I do think they slightly change it to suit us as in Turkey I find the food to be slightly different.

blondiescot

2010-04-21 10:29:47

Re: Kebabs & Lahmacun

greenshoes wrote:
I find the best kebabs (I'm Scottish too, so obviously too dumb to know what a wrap is :rofl )down on the stalls near the harbour and along the beach front. Actually i tend to find the best food in Turkey to be the food in the local cafes and smaller places.

Our Turkish restaurant at home makes lovely food but I do think they slightly change it to suit us as in Turkey I find the food to be slightly different.

So I'm not the only one then...

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