Pizza in 4 Movements

Neopolitan pizza dough with 3 topping recipes including traditional Margherita, Syrian style beef Lahame Bhagine, red pepper onion Mmhamara.

A Hiba and Calin favourite for Friday nights.

Following ingredients for 8 pizzas.

Pizza Dough

Ingredients

• 1L Good Water
• 5g Dry Instant Yeast
• 10g Honey
• 25g Salt
• 50g Olive Oil
• 1500kg All Purpose Flour

Steps

• Mix warm, good water with yeast and honey, let it sit for 10 mins
• Add 1kg of flour and mix
• Ferment for 1 hour by covering with towel
• Add rest of flour, salt, and oil and mix
• Coat with olive oil and cover with plastic, let it rest for 1 hour
• Split into 250g balls of dough
• Coat with olive oil and cover with plastic, let it rest for 3-8 hours
• Sprinkle flour on counter, plop ball of dough down and push out into a pizza shape

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXO2T9rXGEI

Topping

Ingredients

Steps

(Margherita sauce not included)

• Dice and fry in olive oil 2 shallots and 4 green onions
• Set aside half of onions to mix with beef
• Thinly slice fire roasted red peppers and add to fry pan
• Add 5 tbsp red pepper paste
• Dice 3 tomatoes and add half to pan if red pepper paste is too spicey for taste
• Add 1 tbsp of nigella seeds
• Salt
• Add sesame seeds
• Clear pan and set aside the red pepper topping
• Add olive oil to pan and the set aside half onions
• Add half tomatoes
• Let simmer until water is let out and it starts to stick to the bottom
• Add 400-600g ground beef and cook down until it is dry