Sunday, April 12, 2020

Dateline: March 28, 2020 Marinara and Turkish Pizza

I can't recall why I made marinara, perhaps it was in anticipation of a Wegman's order that was scheduled to arrive this day!  I was browsing through the fridge and decided to use the half onions, shredded carrots, dying celery and canned tomatoes and make a marinara sauce that could stand up to pizza or pasta.  I followed up this by making Turkish pizza, lahmacun.  A new taste treat for me.

                                               

Lahmacun is easy and very tasty.  The dough was very forgiving and crisped up nicely on a pizza stone.  The dough was rolled very thin, perhaps too thin as it made it very difficult to manipulate on a peel and on the stone.  Had to resort to parchment paper and a giant spatula.


I made these with lamb as I had ordered 2 lbs of ground lamb earlier and needed to use it up. I didn't have any onions so I cut some chives from the 2 bunches that survived the winter on the terrace.  It was worthy of additional attempts at making the dough behave better.




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