Middle Eastern Spiced Lamb Pizza

Name: Middle Eastern Spiced Lamb Pizza
Yield: Makes 2 30 cm/12 in pizzas
Ingredients: 50 g /2 oz feta cheese, crumbled; 30 ml /2 tbsp olive oil; 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed; salt and ground black pepper; 115 g /4 oz minced (ground) lamb; ½ quantity pizza dough; fine ground semolina, for sprinkling; 1 medium onion, very finely chopped; 60 ml /4 tbsp tomato sauce; 1 fresh red chilli, seeded and very finely chopped; 30 ml /2 tbsp fresh chopped mint leaves; 15 ml /1 tbsp red wine vinegar

Preparation info

Makes
2
30 cm 12 in pizzas

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Wood-fired Oven Cookbook

By Holly Jones and David Jones

Published 2016

About

This pizza, topped with spicy lamb, gets a delicious charring in the wood-fired oven. The base gets wonderfully crispy, and the melted feta cheese adds a hint of saltiness. A perfect pizza for a long summer evening as the sun goes down.

Ingredients

½ quantity pizza dough
115 g /4 oz minced (ground) lamb

Pizza
Summer

Method

Build up the fire in the oven until it is about 350°C/660°F, this will take about 60 minutes. When it is up to temperature, push the fire to the back of the oven with a metal peel or coal hook and close the oven door.