Individual Greek Pizzas Food

MINI GREEK PITA PIZZAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place 6 mini whole-wheat pitas or three sandwich thin halves on a baking sheet. Brush some olive oil evenly over each pita.
• Bake in the oven for 10 minutes or until lightly browned and crispy.
• Remove from oven and spread a thin layer of hummus over each round, going close to the edge.
• Top each round with equal amounts of diced tomato, cucumber, olives, red onion and feta. Serve immediately.

HOMEMADE INDIVIDUAL PIZZAS

Steps:

• (this dough can also be made in a bread maker):
• Put warm water in a large bowl, add the yeast and let stand for about 7 minutes for the yeast to activate. Don't use hot water or you will ruin the yeast.
• Whisk in honey and olive oil. Add flour, then the salt and knead until well-combined (use a dough hook on speed 2 if using a mixer). The dough should be sticky.
• Cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm place until doubled in volume (45 min to 1 hr at room temp or 25-30 min in a warm 100˚F oven).
• Combine all sauce ingredients in a small sauce pan.
• Simmer over medium/low heat until it is reduced by about a third. It needs to thicken or the pizza will be too juicy. If you need to cool sauce to room temp faster, transfer sauce to a bowl and place in a bath of ice water.
• Generously sprinkle baking pans with cornmeal; this keeps the crust crisper and prevents sticking to the pan. You can also oil pans if you don't have cornmeal.
• Grease a clean work surface and your hands with olive oil. Transfer dough to oiled surface and cut into three even pieces. Form each piece into an 8" round pizza crust using your hands and transfer to baking pans lined with cornmeal.
• Spread 1/3 pizza sauce on each pizza leaving a 1/2" border of dough all the way around. Add plenty of mozzarella cheese and any of your favorite toppings; this is where it gets really fun! (See list of toppings above for supreme pizza or Greek Pizza).
• Bake pizzas at 415 degrees F for 15 minutes or until the crust is crisp and toppings are cooked. Cheese will be melted and turn golden in a few spots.
• (Tip for the Greek Pizza: once the toppings are on, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil. After the pizza comes out of the oven, sprinkle with crumbled feta cheese. It's so good!)

INDIVIDUAL PIZZAS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cook ground beef in a skillet.
• Separate biscuits and put them on a sheet of waxed paper or foil.
• Flatten each biscuit with palm of your hand until thin but not too thin.
• Place each one on a cookie sheet or pizza pan.
• Spread approximately 1 tsp tomato sauce on each"pizza" evenly, depending how saucy you want them.
• Put a spoonful of hamburger on each pizza.
• Spread evenly.
• Sprinkle each pizza with cheese, depending on how cheesy you want them.
• Bake in oven for 10 minutes or until edges are golden brown.
• Cool for a few minutes before serving.