Bring Mersin’s Tantuni to the Table with This MasterChef Recipe

Tantuni brings one of Mersin’s best-known street foods into the home kitchen. The dish uses finely chopped beef cooked over high heat, then wrapped in lavash with tomatoes, onions and parsley.

The recipe calls for 400 grams of beef tenderloin, four pieces of tandoor lavash, cottonseed oil, salt, ground red pepper, water, two tomatoes, one onion and parsley.

To prepare it, trim and thinly slice the beef, then boil it in cold water until the liquid evaporates. Heat a wok or griddle, add the oil and cook the beef with salt and red pepper. Add water gradually and continue cooking until the meat absorbs it.

Warm the lavash briefly by pressing it over the cooked meat. Divide the filling among the breads, add the chopped vegetables and parsley, roll each lavash into a wrap and serve hot.