Lahmacun: Taking Doner Kabab to The Next Level?

[STEbbq]

Long-time readers may remember (naturally of course y'all love me) that many of my first posts here were focused on doner kebab.

https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/fo...kebab-or-kebap

https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/fo...kebab-on-mb560

My wife and I are, well, pretty obsessed with eating doner kebab when we head to Europe. I always come back from my vacation with a renewed desire to use my ceramic spike, as the doner kebab we had was excellent!

Reindeer!!!!

https://pitmaster.amazingribs.com/forum/the-pit-mastery-program/wild-game/1231371-reindeer-pita-from-helsinki

However, at the Munich central train station (pinging realdocBBQ ) at one of the turkish fast food places, I actually had a lahmacun kebab.

This is amazing. A super-thin pizza-like dough loaded down with a flavorful meat-based sauce (cumin, garlic, pepper, onions etc.) topped with the typical doner kebab toppings (sliced beef, onions, lettuce, peppers, pickled cucumber, chili sauces etc.). It is all wrapped up like you would eat a burrito, and wrapped again in tin foil to hold it all together so you peel off the foil as you eat. This is contrast to the usual doner kebab which lacks the extra "pizza sauce".

For anyone considering or enjoying doner kebabs, you must try the extra lahmacun step. Oh man.

https://turkishfoodie.com/lahmacun/ ( example recipe, not researched)

(not my pic either, but mine doesn't show the concept clearly enough)

[Murdy]

That looks and sounds amazing.

I was a big fan of donner kebabs when I was stationed in Germany many years ago. I've been trying (intermittently over the years) to track down someplace in the Chicago area that made a German/Turkish style kebab, unsuccessfully. I tried Dmen Tap and Baltic on a couple recomedations, which were good, but not the style I recalled.

[STEbbq]

I have never seen anything good in the United States either hence my own efforts to make my own!

[Greygoose]

Just outside of Boston in Watertown there is a large Armenian population and there are several ethnic bakeries that have outstanding lahmajun flat breads,,,,,
one of the things I miss that I don’t get there too often nowadays!

[Potkettleblack]

We had some Lahmahcun in Turkey, nothing to write home about, but good.

We were a bit more fond of Pide. (example recipe here) https://turkishfoodie.com/pide/

The crust was more, uhm... I dunno... more. Might just be the shaping that gives it a better crumb... or the pizza like crust of a good New York pizza.

[realdocBBQ]

Oh man, I can't wait! I love me some doner, ate it a bunch of times in Austria, I'm hoping this place in Munich Hbf will be open when we arrive at 9:30PM on the 5th! Thanks STEbbq!

[hoovarmin]

Every time you guys write about this dish I can't help but think of the Donner Party. I am going to have to overcome that association so I can try this out.

[RichardCullip]

Every time you guys write about this dish I can't help but think of the Donner Party. I am going to have to overcome that association so I can try this out.

Me too. In fact I was hesitant to even open up this post afraid that it was just a miss-spelling for Donner Kabobs.....

[hoovarmin]

RichardCullip 😂

[hoovarmin]

A friend of mine in Georgia just posted this photo on Facebook.

[STEbbq]

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