Middle Eastern Pizza

Name: Middle Eastern Pizza
Prep time: 3 h 10 min
Cook time: 3 h 10 min
Total time: 3 h 10 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 454 grams fresh buffalo mozzarella, shredded; 907 grams San Marzano tomatoes, diced; 1 medium eggplant, cubed; 355 milliliters French feta cheese, crumbled; 1 medium bunch fresh mint, chopped; 4 cloves garlic, minced; 1 teaspoons garlic powder; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 118 milliliters pitted kalamata olives, roughly chopped; 118 milliliters oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, roughly chopped; 8 servings Olive oil; 454 grams pizza dough, rested at room temperature for 1 hour; 1 large red onion, sliced; 1 teaspoon salt; 0 Tbsps sumac; 1 medium yellow onion, coarsely chopped

Middle Eastern Pizza might be just the middl eastern recipe you are searching for. This recipe serves 8. One portion of this dish contains about 23g of protein, 36g of fat, and a total of 586 calories. It works well as a main course. Head to the store and pick up eggplant, ground cumin, canned tomatoes, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert.

Instructions

Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat.

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Olive Oil

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Sauce Pan

Add the onion and cook until soft, 5 to 7 minutes.

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Onion

Add the garlic powder, sumac and tomatoes and cook until thickened, about 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Garlic Powder

Tomato

Sumac

Make the pizza: Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F.

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Oven

Drizzle a rimmed baking sheet with 2 tablespoons olive oil and stretch the pizza dough to fill the pan (it doesn't have to be perfect since this is a rustic pizza).

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Pizza Dough

Olive Oil

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Brush the dough with olive oil and bake until just golden, 10 to 15 minutes.

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Olive Oil

Dough

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Oven

Meanwhile, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.

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Olive Oil

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Frying Pan

Add the eggplant and cumin, season with salt and pepper, and cook until the eggplant is tender, 7 to 10 minutes.

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Salt And Pepper

Eggplant

Cumin

Add the garlic and cook 5 more minutes. Meanwhile, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a separate skillet over medium heat.

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Olive Oil

Garlic

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Frying Pan

Add the red onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until caramelized, about 15 minutes.

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Red Onion

Reduce the oven temperature to 450 degrees F. Top the crust with 1 cup sauce, the mozzarella, eggplant mixture, caramelized onion, olives, sun-dried tomatoes and feta. Return to the oven and cook until the cheese melts and the crust is golden brown, 15 to 20 more minutes, brushing the crust with olive oil halfway through.

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Sun Dried Tomatoes