Turkish Crêpe

Turkish Crêpe is one of the authentic Turkish cuisine, better known locally as Gözleme, a village dish made of flat lavas or bread folded over various ingredients then baked on a griddle. It has been a popular light meal for centuries in Turkey. The pancake is called lava without toppings and became gözleme with toppings like spinach, cheese: cow's milk cheese or feta (sheep's milk cheese), minced meat/lamb, mashed potatoes are spread atop the bread and it is folded over them.

In many restaurants, there is a section where normally two ladies sit at a low table in full view of diners, rolling out the dough with a broomstick-handle-thin rolling pin, then spreads the nearly one-meter-diameter rounds of paper-thin dough on a circular griddle to bake.

...a humble pancake with minced meat...

...tasted heavenly with cheese...

...this one with mashed potatoes...

...and a free traditional music accompanied the supper...

...and it is Pancake Day over here...a day before Lent (40 days fasting period from luxury foods such as egg, milk, butter, cheese)...Christian tradition (normally Catholic or Ortodox), known as Mardi Gras of Fat Tuesday for French people, celebrated in Germany, Belgium, Portugal and a few other countries in Europe, India, Australia, Brazil and some other countries in Latin America, USA, Hawaii, Canada...