A simple, hearty Turkish-style pizza: homemade dough, thyme tomato sauce, plenty of mozzarella and sucuk slices crisped at the edges.
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Dissolve the yeast and sugar in the warm water and let stand for 5 minutes. Mix the flour with the salt, add the yeast water and half the olive oil and knead for 8-10 minutes. Cover and let rise for 1 hour.
- 2
Peel the casing off the sucuk and slice thinly; cut the pepper into thin rings.
- 3
Preheat the oven to 250 °C. Divide the dough in two and press into 28-30 cm rounds on two trays greased with the remaining oil.
- 4
Mix the tomato puree with the thyme, spread over the dough and sprinkle with most of the mozzarella.
- 5
Scatter over the sucuk slices and pepper and top with the remaining mozzarella.
- 6
Bake on the lowest rack at 250 °C for 12-15 minutes until the edges are browned and the sucuk is crisp. Slice and serve hot.
Nutrition
Per serving
| Calories | 658 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 30 g |
| Carbs | 65 g |
| Fat | 30 g |
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