Ankara Pan Recipe

Sometimes, when we see the simplicity of dishes whose taste will be on everyone's lips, we understand that 'many kinds of ingredients, very delicious' does not mean. Of course, the taste of each dish varies depending on the cooking technique used and the ingredients used. But it makes you happy to know that you have delicious meals that you can make practically, or rather easily!

Ankara pan is a recipe that fascinates us with its main ingredients consisting of noodles, meat with bones, tomatoes, onions and peppers! We think that it is one of our duties as food lovers to protect our local cuisines and to keep those dishes alive in our kitchens, even with the ingredients we have, without forgetting what they are at their core.

We also shot a video for this amazing taste and attached it below. Enjoy your meal!

How to Make Ankara Pan Recipe?

• In a pot, fry the noodles with oil and 1 tablespoon of butter until they change color.
• After they change color, remove them from the stove and spread the noodles on a tray that can go into the oven.
• Half-cook the lamb shanks in the pot for 20-25 minutes so that they brown evenly on all sides. Since it will continue to cook in the oven, the inside will not remain raw.
• In a separate pan, fry the onions with 1 tablespoon of butter until they turn pink.
• Add the peppers and garlic to the onions and continue roasting.
• Add the tomato and pepper pastes and fry until the smell disappears, then add the grated tomatoes.
• While the grated tomatoes are cooking, pour 1/2 cup of hot water over the sauce and boil it for a while, then remove it from the stove.
• Pour the tomato sauce from the stove over the roasted barley noodles and mix.
• Then, arrange the lamb shanks on the noodles and add enough hot water to cover the noodles by two fingers.
• Bake in the oven at 190 degrees for about 40 minutes until the meat is cooked and the noodles absorb their water and serve hot.