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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Allyson Gofton
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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.

Energy
2313kJ (553 kcal)
Protein
25.8g
Total Fat
21.4g
Saturated Fat
7.0g
Carbohydrate
61.5g
Dietary Fibre
5.5g
Sodium
709mg
Iron
3.3mg
Zinc
3.3mg
Vitamin B12
0.9µg