Feb 21, 2016

Feta Spinach Flatbread Pizza

I needed a quick dinner tonight - we had you-choose the ingredients flatbread pizzas. I made mine feta, spinach. and mozzarella.


Ingredients:

  • 1 cup warm water.
  • 2 teaspoons yeast
  • 2.5 cups flour (I used King Arthur Italian Style Flour this time, all purpose would work as well)
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 teaspoons salt

  • 3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 3/4 cup feta cheese, broken into small chunks
  • 1 cup fresh baby spinach, cut into small pieces
  • Pepper, oregano, and garlic to taste

Instructions:

  1. Pre-heat oven to 450 placing pizza stone in oven first
  2. In a stand mixer bowl, activate the  yeast in the warm water with 1 cup of flour stirred in
  3. Cover the bowl and let rest for 10 minutes.
  4. Place rest of ingredients +"sponge" in the bowl of mixer, beat 10 minutes to make
    soft dough.
  5. If needed, add additional flour by tablespoon so you can roll it out later. (Or scoop it out of bowl now.)
  6. Add additional 1/2 tablespoon of oil to grease bowl, flip dough on oil.
  7. Cover and let rise for about an hour to double.
  8. Divide dough into 4 equal pieces on a well-floured work surface. 
  9. Roll out each piece into a thin flat bread maybe 12" by 5 inches on a floured piece of parchment paper.
  10. Slide parchment paper and dough onto the hot pizza stone - pre-bake each flat bread about 3 minutes.
  11. Remove from oven, top lightly with your choice of pizza toppings. 
  12. Return to oven, bake for 5 to 7 minutes until cheese has melted.

Carole's Notes:

Doug and I each ate 2/3 of a flatbread. I pre-baked the other two for another time.

You could also bake these at 550 - they will cook faster - but you should flour the flat breads enough you can slide onto pizza stone without the parchment paper.

When I make naan out of these, I replace 1/3 cup of water with Greek yogurt. I also mix in 2 teaspoons onion flakes. If you are in a rush, use 1 tablespoon of yeast, and let them rise only 10 minutes.

The flatbread recipe is lightly adapted from http://arabicbites.blogspot.com/2007/12/10-minutes-dough-or-as-i-call-it-all.html

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