“Armenian” Pizza With Spiced Lamb Sausage, Armenian String Cheese, and Sumac Recipe

Lahmajun is an Armenian flatbread baked in a wood-fired range that is topped with a spiced minced lamb topping, made vivid red from inclusion of tomato and purple pepper paste. Although it’s frequently regarded by outsiders as “Armenian pizza pie” plus it type of resembles pizza pie, numerous Armenians (myself included) get only a little aggravated by the contrast.

To start with, it—as along with other relevant meat-topped flatbreads from center East—likely predates the innovation of pizza pie. I’m no meals historian, and so I do not know whether it’s real, but i have look over arguments that pizza pie was empowered by lahmajun—or the idea from it, as a slim, circular, veggie- and/or meat-topped topped flatbread—thanks to your migration of individuals from Caucasus and Levant to Sicily via Greece. Next, whilst the two tend to be superficially comparable, you will find distinctions: lahmajun is topped with a rather slim level of damp, meat-heavy paste, in the place of a sauce; the bread is rolled aside extremely thinly and baked in a really hot range, that causes it to battle a crackly outside with a tender inside; and lahmajun is typically consumed entire, frequently rolled up around a chopped salad, in the place of sliced up. 

Is obvious, while we don’t invest a lot of time worrying all about just how non-Armenians make reference to lahmajun, the discourse around it (particularly its) made me personally recently question: exactly what might an actual Armenian pizza—meaning an actual Italian cake, topped with Armenian components and flavors—look like? That is the way I created this 1.

We provided it a nod to lahmajun by producing a lamb sausage blend produced from similar standard seasonings: parsley, hot purple pepper paste, tomato paste, allspice, cumin, garlic, and paprika. As opposed to mozzarella, We utilized Armenian sequence mozzarella cheese, that is nearly the same as mozzarella, it is created into a rope that may be taken aside into threads, and it is spiced with nigella seeds. And I also completed it with floor sumac—the tart red-hued spruce that is necessary to za’atar seasoning—and much more parsley, an herb beloved to Armenians. 

Eventually, this pizza pie dish is intended is baked in a blazing hot outside tabletop pizza pie range, making use of a patio pizza pie range dough we created. Although topping combo can be utilized on property range cake, also, making use of a dough developed for the function.