In oriental cuisine, there is a dish in the form of a flat cake, thickly covered with minced meat. It is called lahmajun. By analogy with it, minced meat pizza was invented, which received the elegant name Turkish pizza. Due to the fact that the filling is placed on the dough in a half-baked form, the products "reach" in the oven at the same time, enriching each other with rich flavors, so the pizza turns out to be juicy and aromatic.
The product can be made from any dough, but the most delicious pastries are obtained from homemade yeast dough. And, of course, Turkish pizza should not contain shop sausages or sausages, but real ground beef mixed with onions. Juiciness is achieved by adding tomato paste to the minced meat.
Pizza recipe with minced meat and olives
Test composition:
- dry yeast - 15 g;
- water - 120 ml;
- granulated sugar - 10 g;
- the oil grows. - 30 ml;
- flour varieties - 250 g;
Filling composition:
- beef fillet - 400 g;
- small onion - 1 pc.;
- tomato paste. - 40 ml;
- cheese - 100 g;
- olives or olives - 10 pcs.;
- seasonings and salt.
Step-by-step dough preparation process:
- Dissolve dry yeast in heated water. Add sugar and a spoonful of sifted white flour. The yeast will turn into a dough within 15 minutes. Now you can pour vegetable oil into it.
- Pour the dough into a deep cup and gradually introduce flour, sifting it in small portions. It is necessary to stir with your hands. When the dough becomes elastic, it should be laid out on a hard surface and, adding flour, knead a lump. The yeast dough should not be too dense.
- Wipe the bowl with oil from the inside and transfer the dough into it, cover with a dampened towel. Leave on the table to rise for 40-50 minutes. Every 15 minutes, the lump should be crushed with your hands to remove air. On the third rise, the dough can be used as a pizza base.
Cooking Turkish Pizza:
- The main component of the filling is minced beef. To prepare it, a loin of beef must be grated in a meat grinder with onions and slightly warmed up in a pan, constantly kneading with a fork so that no lumps form. Salt and season the filling. Add half the tomato paste and stir.
- Grate the cheese on any grater.
- Cut the dough in half. Roll out a base 1-1.5 cm thick from each piece.
- Cover a round baking sheet with paper and grease with oil. Heat the oven to 200 ° C.
- Cover the tortilla with tomato paste and spread the minced meat.
- Peel the onion and chop into rings. Distribute the rings over the base.
- Scatter the olives cut into quarters on top. And cover it with a thick layer of cheese.
- The oven is hot, you can put pizza in and cook in just 20 minutes. Cut into triangular pieces.
Roman pizza
In Rome, as in all of Italy, pizza is revered and loved. You can find recipes for Italian pizza with minced sausages. But Roman pizza is prepared differently, with a twist.
Test composition:
- premium flour - 450 g;
- butter, butter - 100 g;
- milk - 250 ml;
- salt - 15 g;
- dry yeast - 25 g.
Filling:
- ground beef - 600 g;
- egg - 2 pcs.;
- tomato paste. - 140 ml;
- breadcrumbs - 30 g;
- fresh herbs - 1 bunch;
- cheese - 250 g;
- salt and seasonings.
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Heat the milk and dissolve the yeast in it. Wait until foam forms.
- Sift the premium flour and add softened butter to it. Grind, salt and add milk with yeast.
- Knead the dough until smooth and leave to rise on the countertop.
- Combine minced meat with raw eggs and all tomato paste and chopped croutons, add seasoning and salt.
- Divide the dough into two lumps. Roll each one to a thickness of 1 cm and place on a baking sheet. Raise the edges in the form of bumpers.
- Spread out on the ground meat. Since the meat is placed raw, it should be spread in a thin layer to allow the filling to bake.
- Cut the cheese into small cubes and spread over the minced meat. Coat the surface with vegetable oil.
- Repeat the same on the second pizza base.
- Bake in the oven at 180 ° C. Ready time - 20-30 minutes.
- Before serving (only hot), sprinkle each portion with chopped herbs.
Country style pizza
Structure:
- unsweetened yeast dough - 250 g;
- tomato ketchup - 150 ml;
- minced meat of any (chicken, pork, beef) - 300 g;
- the oil grows. - 30 ml;
- egg - 2 pcs.;
- large tomato - 1 pc.;
- small onion - 1 pc.;
- greens (basil, onions) - 1 bunch;
- mozzarella - 120 g;
- seasonings, salt.
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Knead the dough and roll it out into a thin layer. Put on a sheet and send to a heated oven for 7-10 minutes.
- At this time, peel and finely chop one onion, chop and fry a little with minced meat. Salt a little.
- Dip the tomato in boiling water for 20 seconds. Take out and remove the skin. Grind into pieces and send to the minced meat, simmer for about 5 minutes.
- Beat the eggs until frothy and, adding seasoning, stir in the warm minced meat.
- Place the meat mass on the dried pizza base and cover with chopped mozzarella.
- Place in the oven for another 10-12 minutes.
- Sprinkle fresh basil over the pizza.
Mushroom pizza
Structure:
- unsweetened yeast dough - 500 g;
- mixed minced meat - 600 g;
- champignons or other mushrooms - 250 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- medium tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- ketchup - 100 ml;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- hard cheese - 160 g;
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Peel the onion and cut into small pieces. Mix the minced meat with a vegetable and lightly fry, season with salt.
- Knead the minced meat with a fork so that no lumps form.
- Rinse and peel the champignons, chop in thin layers.
- Cut the tomatoes into rings. Grate the cheese.
- Form a single-layer filling from the dough and place it on a baking sheet.
- Mix mayonnaise with ketchup, cover the dough.
- Layer of minced meat, then cover with mushrooms and tomato slices. The top layer is cheese.
- Bake for no more than 15 minutes at 200 ° C.
Pizza with minced chicken
Structure:
- yeast dough - 500 g;
- medium tomato - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 3 teeth.;
- minced chicken - 250 g;
- bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.;
- salted or pickled mushrooms - 150 g;
- mayonnaise sauce - 70 g;
- any cheese - 150 g;
- seasonings, spices, salt.
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Peel the tomatoes, chop them into rings.
- Peel and cut the pepper into slices.
- Fry the salted minced meat and add chopped mushrooms to it.
- Peel and chop the garlic, add to mayonnaise and salt.
- Roll out the dough to the width of the baking sheet. Place on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, coat with mayonnaise and garlic.
- A layer of minced meat with mushrooms. A layer of pepper, tomatoes, a thick layer of cheese.
- Bake for no longer than 20 minutes at 180 ° C.
Light pizza made from puff pastry
Experienced chefs do not recommend spending a lot of time preparing puff pastry. After all, it must be rolled out from 40 to 100 times, creating more and more layers. There is an easier option - to purchase a blank in the store and create a great pizza in a matter of minutes. This dough cannot be spoiled, moreover, it will add weightlessness and lightness to the pizza, and the base will taste like French croissants.
For pizza, both yeast and yeast-free puff pastry is suitable. The product will be airy from the first type of base, and softer and more delicate from the second.
Structure:
- a pack of puff pastry - 500 g;
- pork and beef fillets - 250 g each;
- large onion - 1 pc.;
- cherry tomatoes - 200 g;
- any cheese - 240 g;
- tomato. paste - 80 ml;
- light mayonnaise sauce - 80 g;
- seasonings to taste.
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Wash and grind the meat pieces in a meat grinder. Minced meat should be homogeneous, finely chopped.
- Salted and seasoned, fry the minced meat until half cooked. Add the peeled chopped onion 2 minutes before removing from the heat.
- Wash the tomatoes and cut into halves. Grind the cheese.
- Roll out the puff pastry evenly into a thin layer and place on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour.
- Grease the entire top layer with tomato paste and, after allowing the meat filling to cool, distribute it over the base. You can grease the minced meat with mayonnaise if desired. It is important not to distribute the meat filling hot on the puff pastry, otherwise the dough will begin to cook under it and will bake unevenly in the oven, in places it may burn or remain raw. If juice is formed in the minced meat during stewing, it must be drained - it will crush the puff pastry.
- Cover everything with cheese. And send to bake for 20-25 minutes.
Closed Calzone with minced meat
Structure:
- minced meat - 300 g;
- mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms) - 250 g;
- cheese - 150 g;
- tomato sauce. - 120 g;
- large onion -1 pc.;
- garlic - 4 teeth.;
- dill - 1 bunch;
- the oil grows. - 20 g.;
- various seasonings;
- unsalted yeast dough - 400 g.
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Peel the onion and garlic cloves. Fry them a little in a pan in oil, sprinkle with sugar on the tip of a knife for a golden color.
- Chop the herbs and mix with the onion roast.
- It is the turn of the mushrooms - cut and set aside.
- Minced meat can be prepared by mixing chicken with beef, or with pure pork. Add onions and seasonings to it.
- In a frying pan, fry the minced meat together with the mushrooms, at the end pour in the tomato sauce (you can replace it with pasta or chopped tomato). In 10 minutes. Remove the filling from heat and cool.
- Finely grate the cheese.
- Divide the dough into two bases, each roll out to fit a baking sheet. It should be greased or covered with food grade paper. Lay the filling in an even layer, lifting the sides. Sprinkle with cheese, leaving a third, and cover with the second half of the filling.
- Bake for about 15 minutes at 200 ° C. Sprinkle the remaining cheese over the top layer of the pizza and let it sit in the oven for about 10 minutes.
Secrets of delicious pizza
When kneading the dough yourself, in order to get a crispy but soft base, it is advisable to choose flour with an increased level of gluten in the composition. You can mix a couple of tablespoons of semolina into the dough, this will add softness. To saturate the base of the dough with oxygen, the layer is twisted over the head on one finger, or at least thrown into the air with both hands, as if stretching it in all directions (but this requires a certain skill).
Pizzaiollos use professional pizza ovens. In them, the heating can be up to 400 ° C, and the pizza is baked in 7-10 minutes. A home oven should not be heated above 250 ° C, and it is not permissible to overexpose pizza in it. Otherwise, it will become dry and hard. The oven door must not be opened during cooking.
An ideal sauce for covering the base is grated tomatoes with salt and basil. If using tomato paste or ketchup, make sure the product is free of starch or applesauce.
The cheese is always put on the pizza in the last layer and, as it were, wraps the filling. If you have to bake the stuffing of raw minced meat for a long time, then it is better to add the cheese to the pizza 8-10 minutes before cooking, so that it remains viscous and does not burn.
