tr - by emsa Denizsel
It’s been years I haven’t made “Çıtır”
Çıtır is a leavened flatbread, something between a lahmacun and a pizza. The idea is based on a pizza but the crust is based on the very thin lahmacun. It is baked twice so it becomes very crispy/crunchy hence the name çıtır. Çıtır in Turkish means crispy/crunchy. It is an adjective used to describe the crispy texture. When I first launched the idea of “çıtır” at my restaurant Kantin 23 years ago, nothing like it existed. I needed to find a word for it. It was neither a pizza nor a lahmacun. Because of the difficulty of naming it we started to call it “crispy” aka “çıtır”. It remained on the menu till the day the restaurant shut down its doors. It was more popular than any dish we prepared. It became a legend in its own right.
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