Turkish Pizza
Total Time: 5 minutesYield: 6 Servings
Source: www.curiouscuisiniere.com
Category: Bread
Ingredients
4 1⁄2 cups Flour2 3⁄4 teaspoons Salt
1 tablespoon Yeast
2 1⁄2 tablespoons Olive Oil
1 cup Warm Water
1 whole Green Bell Pepper (chopped)
1 whole Red Bell Pepper (chopped)
1 1⁄2 whole Onion (chopped)
3 whole Tomato (chopped)
2 cloves Garlic (minced)
1⁄4 cup Parsley (chopped)
1⁄2 pound Ground Beef (or lamb)
1 1⁄2 teaspoon Tomato Paste
1 teaspoon Paprika
1⁄2 teaspoon Red Pepper Flakes
1⁄4 teaspoon Ground Black Pepper
1 whole Lemon (cut into wedges)
4 cups Romaine Lettuce (chopped)
Directions
- Mix the flour and yeast in a medium bowl. Add 1 1/2 teaspoon salt and mix well. Add 1 1/2 tablespoon oil and mix until well distributed.
- Add 3/4 cup of water and mix well. Continue adding a little water at a time until the dough starts to come together. Turn the dough out onto your counter and knead until a soft and supple dough forms, 3-5 minutes. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and let it rest for 1 hour.
- Process the peppers, 1 onion, 1 tomato, garlic, and parsley in your food processor. Once the veggies are finely pureed, transfer them to a fine mesh sieve placed over a bowl. Lightly strain the veggie mixture of excess juices, reserve the juices for later.
- Place the vegetable puree in a large bowl along with the raw ground meat, 1 tablespoon olive oil, tomato paste, paprika, red pepper flakes, 1 1/4 teaspoon salt, and pepper.
- Mix well until a soft paste forms. If the mixture looks dry, add a splash of the reserved vegetable juices to the meat mixture. Cover the meat mixture and let the flavors develop for 30 minutes.
- Near the end of your rising time, preheat your oven to 450 degrees and place a pizza stone in the oven. Knock back the dough and divide it into 12, roughly even pieces. Roll each piece into a ball.
- On a pizza peel, work with one ball of dough at a time. Roll each ball out to roughly 5"x7". Spread a scant 1/4 cup of filling over top of each piece of dough, spreading the filling with a rubber spatula to cover the entire piece of dough and pressing the filling into the dough. The topping shouldn’t fall off when you go to move the dough.
- Transfer the topped pieces of dough onto the hot pizza stone. Stretching the dough to a very thin sheet of roughly 7x10 inches as you transfer it. Bake the pizzas for 9-11 minutes, until the edges are starting to turn golden brown.
- Continue making more pizzas while the first one bakes. Once pizza is done, transfer them onto a wire cooling rack, and place the next pizza onto the hot pizza stone. Continue with the rest of the dough and filling.
- To serve top with tomatoes, lettuce, and onion then squeeze a wedge of lemon on top.