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Arabic pizza recipe

Deliciously irresistible and amazingly flavoursome Arabic pizza recipe with lamb and feta cheese that will have you coming back for more.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Course Brunch, Dinner, Lazy Lunch
Cuisine Middle Eastern
Servings 4 people

Equipment

  • 1 Pan

Ingredients
  

For the flat bread pizza bases

  • 375 ml or 1 ½ cups of flour
  • 250 ml or 1 cup of Greek yoghurt
  • 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

Toppings

  • 500 g of lean lamb mince
  • 1 roasted red pepper from a jar diced
  • 1 stick of celery diced
  • 1-2 cloves of garlic finely diced
  • ½ teaspoon of ground cardamom or seeds from 5 cardamom pods, pods discarded
  • ½ teaspoon of nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon of ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon of cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon of pomegranate molasses
  • 200 g of feta cheese or Arabic akawi cheese
  • 2 teaspoon of sumac or Za’atar or more to taste

Tomato sauce

  • 150 g of crushed tomato or passata
  • 1 tablespoon of tomato puree
  • ½ teaspoon of sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of harissa paste optional

Tomato and onion salad

  • 1 red onion diced
  • 16 cherry tomatoes diced
  • 12 g of fresh coriander/cilantro leaves chopped
  • teaspoon of nam pla fish sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar
  • A drizzle of olive oil
  • teaspoon of sugar ideally palm sugar

Instructions
 

  • To make the flat breads add the flour, yoghurt and bicarbonate of soda into a mixing bowl and season with a little salt. Mix the ingredients together until a soft dough is formed. Transfer the dough to a floured flat surface and knead for a few minutes to activate the gluten.
  • Divide the dough equally and hand stretch each portion into round pizza bases of about 1-2mm thick and roughly 25cm in diameter.
  • Put a large dry frying pan on a high heat and pan roast each bread for 1-2 minutes each side until cooked with some dark brown charred parts. Set aside until you are ready to make your pizzas.
  • For the spiced lamb topping, add the lamb mince to a hot frying pan with a touch of olive oil. Fry for 3-4 minutes until browned all over. Pour in the cardamom, nutmeg, cinnamon and ground cloves and stir through the lamb. Add the chopped garlic, celery, red pepper and pomegranate molasses and fry for a further 1-2 minutes. The celery needs to stay fairly al-dente. Set aside.
  • Mix the tomato passata or crushed tomato with the tomato puree and sugar and spread over each flatbread base equally.
  • Spoon equal amounts of the lamb mix over each flatbread and crumble the cheese over the top.
  • For the onion salad, simply combine the tomatoes, onion, coriander/cilantro with the oil, vinegar, nam pla, sugar and pomegranate molasses and rest to infuse the flavours.
  • The pizzas will cook in the oven at 200℃/392°F for 6-7 minutes. Serve whilst hot with the salad as a garnish.