A few weeks ago, a Swedish friend contacted me to tell me that she couldn’t believe that we never had discussed kebab pizza. I’m sure that I had discussed both of these foods with her, but in complete isolation. Someone in Sweden has popularised the notion of combining two of the world’s disparate street foods into something loosely obscene but nonetheless popular in Scandinavia. The photo that I saw looked more like an actual kebab only served flat. Maybe someone in Sweden decided that kebabs needed to be shared in an equitable manner; there is no way to slice a rolled kebab once the meat is removed from the rotating platform.
Within a few days of becoming kebab-pizza aware, I discovered that a local pizza joint cooks kebab pizza without me having to con them into it on behalf of a drunken homesick Swede (above pizza).
This version is pizza base, tomato paste, lamb kebab meat, red onion and finished with a generous spray of tzatziki.
Spotted at the sacrilicious Mama Theresa’s, 587 Barkly St, Footscray, VIC, 3011 (Note, March 2011: Mama Theresa’s is now closed. No kebab pizza for you.)
March 20, 2009 7:54 pm
Actually, rather like a Turkish lahmacun, if the meat were chopped and mixed with the tomato base and the yogurt served on the side in the form of a tall glass of ayran. Which really has me missing Turkey right now.
March 22, 2009 2:28 pm
Yep, it’s apparently quite popular. I ate one for the first time when in Stockholm last time. It’s actually quite tasty, but I think I’d rather just order a regular kebab: http://www.austinbushphotography.com/2007/04/welcome-back-kebab.html.
March 23, 2009 2:43 pm
Austin – I forgot your swedish connection.
Robyn – Is there any decent Turkish in KL? I think that I subconsciously rate how liveable a city is by whether I can get either Lebanese or Turkish food.
March 25, 2009 10:33 am
Hey Phil – I really haven’t found anything to make me stand up and applaud. There are plenty of Lebanese places, a few Iranian, but the food always leaves me disappointed. Lots of canned ingredients, the yogurt is never as thick or rich as it should be. It’s a mystery too, as most of them are frequented by Middle Easterners (that said, some of them are also fronts for the world’s oldest profession).
I hold out hope though. But as it stands I do better eating that stuff at home (I do lack a kebab rotisserie, though).
April 23, 2009 8:26 pm
Ah yes the delightful Kebab pizza… We have a local one here on the Northern Beaches of Sydney at – not surprisingly – Kebab world.
My arteries clog just writing about it…..
May 5, 2009 7:48 pm
In Sweden we have allso that we call Kebabrulle , a wrap bread and inside meat and vegitables
http://marie.clarstedt.se/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/kebabrulle.jpg