Foccaciaman,
Your every wish is my command
:
Greek Pizza with Gyro Meat
1 dough recipe sufficient to make 1 (12-in.) pizza dough round
1/2 oz. olive oil (about 1 T.)
2 cloves garlic, chopped
3-4 oz. precooked gyro meat (about 6-8 slices)
3-4 oz. fresh Roma tomatoes, sliced (about 6-8 slices)
1/2 red onion, sliced into half rings
1/4 c. black Greek olives, pitted and sliced
3-4 oz. spinach, fresh or frozen (with water squeezed out of the frozen)
2-3 oz. Greek feta cheese, crumbled
6-7 oz. mozzarella cheese, cut into 2-in. long slices
1 t. dried oregano leaves
Brush the pizza dough round with olive oil. Sprinkle with the chopped garlic. In turn, evenly distribute over the pizza the gyro meat, the Roma tomatoes, the sliced red onion, the black olives, the chopped spinach and the feta cheese. Apply a concentric circle of the mozzarella cheese slices about 1 inch from the edge of the pizza, in the form of a donut. Distribute the oregano leaves over the pizza. Bake the pizza on a pizza stone that has been pre-heated in an oven at 500 degrees F for 1 hour. When the pizza is golden brown and bubbly, remove from the oven, cut into slices and serve.
(Pete-zza Notes: I have made gyro meat before, but it is a lot of work and getting close to the flavors of the real thing isn't easy to do. If you can find the Kronos brand gyro meat, which comes frozen in a 1 pound package, that is the way I would go. I found some in a Middle-Eastern food store. That may not be an option in Minnesota, but if there is someone nearby who sells gyro sandwiches, you might be able to buy 6-8 slices for the above recipe.)
The recipe you have in mind, Foccacciaman, sounds like it is tzaziki based. I think you could make a pizza using the gyro meat (or thinly sliced or chopped lamb if you wish), drench some chopped lettuce in the tzaziki sauce and spread it over the finished pizza, along with some fresh diced tomato if you'd like. I would use the onions but I wouldn't use spinach or olives. If you have a gyro source you might be able to buy some tzaziki sauce also. But commercial tzaziki sauces are made up of chemicals without a trace of anything that looks or sounds like real food. And I don't want Giotto to get all over my case for recommending it to you
. As an alternative, you can make your own tzaziki sauce using either sour cream or drained yogurt, pureed and drained cucumber, and the classic choices of herbs.
Peter
