Middle Eastern Pizzas
Spicy, nutty ground beef - or lamb or chicken - on top of a light pastry, served with a dollop of yoghurt dip. adapted from a recipe from the simply great recipes website.
Steps
Sift the flour into a bowl.
Beat together the egg , oil and milk and stir into the flour.
Mix all the ingredients to form a soft dough.
Turn the mixture out onto a floured board and knead lightly shaping into a ball , and refrigerate for 10 minutes.
Heat the oil in a medium-sized non-stick pan , saut the onions and garlic until they have just softened , then add the ground beef and cook for 3-4 minutes or until it is lightly browned.
Stir in the pinenuts , tomato paste , cumin , sumac , cinnamon and baby spinach leaves , and cook gently for another minute or two , or until the baby spinach leaves have just wilted , then set aside.
Cut the pastry dough into 4 equal portions and roll out each portion into 30cm x 17cm ovals.
Spoon the filling over the pastry leaving a 21 / 2 cm edge.
Fold the pastry edges over the edges of the filling leaving most of the filling exposed.
And seal by twisting the pastry ends.
Brush the pastry with beaten egg and carefully place the pizzas onto .
Ingredients
self-raising flour, egg, olive oil, milk, onion, garlic cloves, ground lamb, pine nuts, tomato paste, cumin, sumaq, cinnamon, baby spinach leaves, tzatziki