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Im about to make the dough for the Iraqi pizza topping i made

Sounds exciting! Can you share the recipe?

Indeed

Here is the authentic although not perfect Iraqi pizza, street vendor style -

750 grams Lamb mince
500 grams onions chopped to 6 mm size
500 grams fresh or can of tomatos - drain well to rid excess juice
small can tomato concentrate
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon allspice
pinch Cayenne pepper
Salt and Pepper

You may add some chopped Garlic if you wish.


Saute the onions in a little vegetable oil until translucent and most of the water evaporated. This will take perhaps 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a large bowl, mix the lamb mince, tomatoes, tomato concentrate, parsley, lemon juice, spices and salt and pepper. Mix well, i use my hand to mix.

Add the onions to the mix and mix again.

Base -

300 grams white or wholemeal flour
1/2 teaspoon yeast
1 tablespoon Olive oil
1/2 tablespoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
210 ml water

I make this in my bread machine, takes 45 minutes and is pretty much ready to go.

Prepare the dough into Walnut size balls and roll into 7 - 8 inches and about 2 mm thick.

Using a spoon or fork, spread the topping onto the base which is now on the hot baking tray. Be quite generous and make sure to spread all the way to the edge as the topping will shrink a little.

Heat the oven to 220-230 Centigrade and place baking tray on the top shelve. Take out when hot and sprinkle a little flour to stop base sticking and add base with topping using a wide flat blade to lift it and bake for 10 minutes.

makes over a dozen.

Freezes very well and is very refreshing and delicious.

Last edited by manalitwist on 04 Jun 2007, 2:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Cool! sounds nice! Thought there might be prunes in it or apricots or something but maybe that's more Moroccan.....

Boiling a stinky pig in the lab. It wasn't too bad, but I was hungry so I went out into the hall to eat my protein bar (no eating in the lab), and it was really bad when I came back in from the fresh air.

Yes Moroccan is fruity and Persian cooking too. The Iraqi pizza is much lighter than the recipe might suggest with the large amount of onion and lamb but in fact it is a very refreshing and light snack with a slight zing from the lemon and quite subtly spiced. If made with wholemeal flour it is quite nutritious as a snack at night out the freezer and quickly baked.

Having a cup of tea after eating cheese-on-toast that took too long to cook because the grill was faulty

waiting for the iron to heat up and making myself a cup of tea

I am listening to music, and eating chocolate covered peacans.

Resisting the urge to scratch my tattoo.

I am trying to be disciplined and directed so i am now about to set about the kitchen and flat with a view to cooking a pot of vegetable soup and i need a recipe for my chicken but food is on the menu this week. I am fattening myself up.

I am laying in bed.

Same here trying to get sleepy.

I am listening to birds chirp.

lying in bed all tucked up nicely at the end of another day