Lamb Mince Flatbreads with Harissa Yogurt

Ingredients

• 350 g lamb mince
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 flatbreads or naan breads
• 0.5 cucumber, finely diced
• 100 g cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1 onion, finely diced
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 0.5 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 150 g Greek yogurt
• 1.5 tbsp harissa paste
• 15g mint, leaves picked
• 1 lemon, juiced
• 1 tsp sumac
• Chopped salad, to serve

Method

1. Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat. Add the onion with a pinch of salt and cook for 3 minutes until softened, translucent, and just catching gold at the edges.
2. Push the onion to the side and add the lamb mince in two batches — all at once and the pan crowds, water comes out, and you've boiled the meat instead of browning it. Break it up with a wooden spoon and let it sit undisturbed for a minute at a time to build proper colour. Once the first batch is deeply browned, add the second, then stir the cooked red lentils through. 5–6 minutes total, until any liquid has cooked off and the fat is sizzling clean.
3. Drop the heat to medium. Stir in the garlic, cumin, smoked paprika and cinnamon and bloom them in the lamb fat for 30–60 seconds until fragrant — watch the garlic, it only wants pale gold, never dark. Raw spices taste dusty; bloomed spices taste of themselves. Season generously with salt and pepper.
4. In a small bowl, ripple the harissa paste through the Greek yoghurt with a pinch of salt — leave it streaky rather than fully mixed, so you get hits of pure harissa as you eat.
5. Warm the flatbreads in a dry pan for 1–2 minutes a side, or in a hot oven, until soft, pliable and lightly blistered. Taste the lamb one more time — adjust the salt now, not at the table.
6. To build: spread each warm flatbread thickly with the harissa yoghurt. Pile the spiced lamb down the middle, scatter over the diced cucumber, halved cherry tomatoes and torn mint leaves, then finish with a squeeze of lemon juice and a heavy dusting of sumac. The acid lifts everything you've just built.