Beef and Pine Nut Flatbread Pizzas

Name: Beef and Pine Nut Flatbread Pizzas
Yield: Makes 10
Ingredients: 2 Tbsp pine nuts; 1 recipe Basic Bread Dough; 12 oz [340 g] lean ground beef or lamb, or a combination; 2 Tbsp pomegranate molasses; ½ tsp ground cinnamon; 1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; 2 tsp Turkish Pepper Paste, or Aleppo pepper or Urfa pepper; ½ cup [70 g] chopped onion; 1 tsp ground sumac; ½ tsp ground allspice; ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper; ½ tsp fine sea salt

Preparation info

Makes
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Flavors of the Sun

By Christine Sahadi Whelan

Published 2021

About

With hints of sweet, spicy, and nutty flavors, these appealing flatbreads hit all the right notes, and they always disappear as fast as I can form them. I like to make this with the extra spicy pepper paste that I make from the peppers grown in my backyard, but dried pepper flakes will do the trick, too.

Ingredients

1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
½ cup [70 g] chopped onion

Pizza
Spicy

Method

Heat the oil in a medium skillet. Add the onion and cook, stirring often, until soft and translucent, 3 to 4 minutes. Scrape the onions into a mixing bowl and let cool for 10 minutes.

Add the meat to the bowl and add the pomegranate molasses, sumac, allspice, cinnamon, salt, black pepper, and pepper paste. Mix well to form a paste. Add the pine nuts, mixing gently to keep them whole.