Cooking Lahmacun With Tortilla Wraps

I've noticed how numpty women very often start eating and drinking the same Turkish foods their askim does - even when askim is still in Turkey. Why is that I wonder? Perhaps they feel closer to them or something? Slightly off-topic, but I remember reading years ago about an Elvis fan who was so obsessed with his idol that he started eating fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The only problem was, being a Brit (a numpty Brit) the man thought Elvis put jelly in his sandwiches (the wobbly stuff lol) and didn't realise Americans call JAM jelly!

Back to women who become obsessed with eating the same foods as askim.....that Sibel woman (who has to be pushing 60) and has married a very slimey-looking Turk who looks to be in his late 30's, has been trawling all the supermarkets looking for tortillas to make lahmacun. Now, I don't know how many lahmacuns she's ever eaten before, but the whole point of lahmacun is that you put the ingredients onto FRESH dough so that the ingredients penetrate it, and then you cook them in a wood-burning oven to get the smokey flavour. You cannot smear minced meat and sauce onto a tortilla and cook it in the oven. Well, you can - but the topping will not set into the tortilla - tortillas are already cooked - and the ingredients will just sit on top of it. Everyone knows tortillas are not the same dough as what they make lahmacun with.

But not being one to give up she finally tracked down a tortilla that has, according to her, achieved PERFECT results! Here she goes...

"I have tried every tortilla wrap you can think of. They always ended up too crispy to roll i thought. Then i tried the tescos own ones. The value ones, and Hey Presto. PERFECT."

I must be missing something here. Why doesn't she just make the dough herself (dead easy! - and she's clearly not lazy) or roll out a ball of ready-made pizza dough?!

I suppose when slimeball gets up to Scotland with his lovely new visa she'll have stockpiles of tortillas to put in her gas/electric oven, and he'll have to eat poor imitations for the first few weeks (rolling his eyes and making out he likes them Flabby-style) until he finds his local kebab shop and scurries off.........

Strawbs

omg me and hubby did giggle at that one.now im not being nasty before im accused of it but speaking as the wife of a former pide chef i have tried home made lahmacun and it was so easy to make.of course it will never taste the same as it does over there.we used flour, water, and salt ( no yeast ) so it could be made thin.it also depends what area of turkey you come from as they make dough differently but that was ours and to me it was very nice.for the topping we used mince lamb(minced twice)tomatoes,onion,little garlic,parsley,salt,black and red pepper.slap it on pop in oven and hey presto! yummy.the only thing i would say is at least she tried to find a quick way to make them and tried different ones to get to the best result,unlike some people that just wouldnt bother.my hubby and his friend were thinking of opening a lahmacun shop in town but there are so many take aways etc that the competition is too high round here and who really wants to get into debt for something like that.but back to the possible lottery win that would be the only way i would try to run my own buisness so if it didnt work its money you have to take that chance

Nooo lahmacun is one of those things that has to be done properly, otherwise theres no point doing it at all (and now I think I'll make a plan to hit the pide shop in town tomorrow).

Elaine

This is too funny!

I think a nice dominos piza knocks socks of all Turkish pizas inc lahmacun

Ooooh Tina!

You need to be careful - if you say negative things about Turkey you might be banned from entering the country! Some mad, weird twat from up in Sheffield who runs a cheap, shabby B&B thinks I've been banned from Turkey! Hilarious!

Strawbs

Well would you really bother with all that - nah, pide shop for sure.