Sunday, April 21, 2013

Greek pizza with feta!

Greek pizza with feta!


For the fans of feta, today, a greek version of pizza! I call it greek just because I use feta cheese instead of mozzarella cheese. I like mozzarella and I have lots of dear friends from Italy that have persuaded me that real pizza is with mozzarella cheese. But it's a nice change from time to time to use feta. In my case it's even practical, as feta cheese is always present in our fridge :) But believe me, the combination of bread, tomato, cheese and oregano is F A N T A S T I C...

Ingredients
Dough (for 2 pizzas or a big one)
500gr of flour (Type 00 special pizza)
10gr of active dry yeast (or the equivalent of dry one)
300ml of warm water
10gr of salt, 
1 spoon of olive oil

Topping
tomato sauce
salt, pepper, oregano, olive oil
slices of ham
1 cup feta cheese
some grated emmental cheese
olives
frankfurt sausages
mushrooms

Procedure
Preheat the oven at 250 degrees of Celsius in grill mode. 
Dissolve the yeast in the water. 
In a big bowl, put the rest of the ingredients and pour the water/yeast mix and make a nice dough by mixing with your hands. 
Cover with a towel and leave the dough to rest in a warm place, until the dough gets double in volume (time will vary depending on the temperature of the room, around 1-2h). If you want to accelerate the time, warm the oven at 50 degrees of Celsius, turn it off and put the bowl with the dough in. the oven.


When dough has doubled, knead it again for a minute and put it in a floured surface.
 Flatten the dough as shown in the photo, to make the base of the pizza.
 Make a tomato sauce by mixing some crushed canned tomatoes, salt, pepper, olive oil and oregano. Cover the base of the pizza with this sauce. On top, put the ham, then the feta cheese in pieces,and sprinkle some grated emmental cheese all over. Add olives, sliced mushrooms, frankfurt sausages in pieces and tomato slices. Sprinkle on top some oregano and some olive oil. Put in the oven for 10 min or until the dough gets a nice golden color and here it is! Yummy...  




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