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Meat-Crust Pizza

Instead of dough, seasoned ground meat pressed into a thin round on a baking sheet and baked; the liquid is poured off, sauce is spread on, cheese and toppings are sprinkled over, and it goes back into the oven. Here based on the recipe itself, with no verified source.

⏱ 51 min🧩 3 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Lahmajun Meat Topping

  1. 1
    In a bowl, mix the ground meat with the tomatoes, onion and parsley.
    Bowl
    💡Grated tomatoes and onion release liquid: squeeze them lightly in a strainer before mixing, so the filling doesn't make the dough soggy.
  2. 2
    Add the cumin, salt and black pepper and knead by hand into a uniform mixture.

For the Tomato sauce

  1. 3
    In a bowl, mix the tomatoes with the salt. Don't cook it: the sauce cooks on the pizza in the oven.
    Bowl

To assemble

  1. 4
    Preheat the oven to 200°C (390°F) and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
    ⚙ Preheating the OvenOvenBaking panParchment paper
    💡Put things in the oven only once it's reached temperature, after the heating light has gone off: an oven that hasn't reached temperature changes baking times, and the bake burns outside or stays underbaked.
  2. 5
    Spread the meat mixture on the baking sheet and shape a flat round 30–32 cm across, about 1 cm thick all over.
    Baking pan
  3. 6
    Bake for 15 minutes.
    OvenBaking pan
  4. 7
    Take it out of the oven and pour off the liquid that has formed.
  5. 8
    Spread the sauce over the meat and sprinkle with the mozzarella.
  6. 9
    Return to the oven for another 10–12 minutes, until the cheese melts and browns.
    OvenBaking pan
  7. 10
    Slice and serve right away.
    Knife
374calories
27 gprotein
8 gcarbs
26 gfat
● protein 29%● carbs 8%● fat 63%

Per serving (268 g), of 4 servings

For the Lahmajun Meat Topping · For the Tomato sauce · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (4) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Oven · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Toaster oven (Fits one small pan; good for small batches) · Air fryer (Small batches only, no runny batters) · Pot (Only for covered stews on the stovetop, no browning on top)
  • Baking pan · Also works: Glass / ovenproof baking dish (None) · Disposable pan (None)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

🧻 Consumables: Parchment paper

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⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Tomato slices · Green pepper · Olives · Oregano after baking
  • Swaps: Grated mozzarella cheese or Grated yellow cheese or Grated cheddar cheese
  • Oven temperature: 200
  • Diameter of the round (cm): 30–32
  • Thickness of the meat (cm): 1
  • Baking the meat alone (minutes): 15
  • Name of the sauce in the steps: the sauce
  • Baking with the toppings (minutes): 10–12

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