Lebanese lamb pizza

Baked pizza with pomegranate and pine nuts

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Serves

4 - 6

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

12 mins

Sprinkled with jewel-like pomegranate seeds and drenched with sweet-sour pomegranate syrup, this pizza has panache to spare!

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Ingredients

  • 300g Quality Mark lamb mince

  • 1 red onion

    thinly sliced
  • 1 large tomato

    deseeded and chopped
  • 1/2 cup tomato pastei

  • 1/4 cup toasted pine nuts

  • 150-200g feta cheese

  • 2-3 Tbsp pomegranate molasses

  • 2 (23cm) pizza bases

    precooked or rolled dough
  • 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds

    optional

Method

To Make Topping
1

Preheat the oven to 190°C.

2

Place 2 trays or pizza stones into the oven to preheat.

3

Brown the lamb mince in a dash of oil, in a frying-pan, breaking it up with the back of a spoon as it browns. Set aside.

4

Reduce the heat, add a further dash of oil and gently pan-fry the onion until tender.

5

Toss together the cooked onion and mince with the tomato, sun-dried tomato pesto or paste and pine nuts. Season if wished.

To Bake Pizza
1

Place the pizza bases on the preheated trays and brush the edges with oil.

2

Divide the lamb mixture evenly between the 2 pizza bases and crumble the feta evenly over the top (or crumble over feta after baking if preferred).

3

Bake the pizzas in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden and hot and the pizza dough is cooked.

4

Drizzle with pomegranate molasses and scatter with fresh pomegranate seeds and fresh parsley leaves, if wished.

5

Serve with a salad on the side.

Other Flavours
1

Indian Lamb Pizza: Following the recipe above, brown the lamb mince with 1 tablespoon of your favourite Indian curry paste. Use cashew nuts in place of pine nuts and serve sprinkled with diced mango. Sprinkle over a little grated palm sugar in place of pomegranate syrup.

2

Moroccan Lamb Pizza: Following the recipe above, brown the lamb with 2 teaspoons Moroccan spice blend. Use almonds in place of pine nuts.

3

South African Lamb Pizza: Following the recipe above, brown the lamb mince with 1 tablespoon South African-style Braai 'n' Grill spice blend. When brown, stir in a hearty spoonful of spicy chutney. Use pistachio nuts in place of pine nuts, halved grapes in place of pomegranate seeds and a little treacle or apple syrup in place of pomegranate molasses.

Nutrition Information per Serving (283g)

This nutrition analysis is based on 6 serves and is for the pizza only.

Energy2313kJ (553 kcal)
Protein25.8g
Total Fat21.4g
Saturated Fat7.0g
Carbohydrate61.5g
Dietary Fibre5.5g
Sodium709mg
Iron3.3mg
Zinc3.3mg
Vitamin B120.9µg