California Farm Greek Pizza

Name: California Farm Greek Pizza
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 2 people, 4 dinner portions
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: For 2 individual Pita bread pizzas:; 1 cup bread flour; 1 cup Greek Yoghurt; 1/2 cup Milk; 1 Tsp SeaSalt; 1/2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp baking soda; For the Tzatziki sauce:; 1 tsp Fresh Mint; 1/2 Fresh cucumber; 1 cup Greek Yoghurt; 1 Tbs Lemon juice; 1 clove Greek garlic confit; For the Fresh greek yoghurt:; 3 cups Full milk, not ultra pasteurized; 1 Cup Greek yoghurt; For the Lamb gyros:; 1/2 pound Ground lamb; 1 Egg; Pinch each Mustard, coriander, seasalt, pepper; For the Feta cheese:; 1 quart Full milk; 1/4 Tsp flaked seasalt; For the pizza toppings:; 6 Tbs Tzatziki sauce; 1 cup Feta cheese; 1 Tbs Pickled mushrooms; 2 Pickled fresh grapeleaves; 2 Tbs Green onions, sliced thin; For the tomato sauce:

Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman

California, United States

Everything Homemade and farm grown, preserved or fresh: crumbled lamb gyros meat, tzatziki sauce, feta cheese , grape leaves, greek yoghurt, olives, spring onions, diced tomato sauce, garlic, lemons, on a pita bread pizza crust.
You can buy these ingredients ready made in the store for a quick gourmet pizza. Or you can make everything from scratch like farmers do.

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Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman

California, United States

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Ingredients

1 hour

2 people, 4 dinner portions

For 2 individual Pita bread pizzas:
1 cupbread flour
1 cupGreek Yoghurt
1/2 cupMilk
1 TspSeaSalt
1/2 tspbaking powder
1/2 tspbaking soda
For the Tzatziki sauce:
1 tspFresh Mint
1/2Fresh cucumber
1 cupGreek Yoghurt
1 TbsLemon juice
1 cloveGreek garlic confit
For the Fresh greek yoghurt:
3 cupsFull milk, not ultra pasteurized
1 CupGreek yoghurt
For the Lamb gyros:
1/2 poundGround lamb
1Egg
Pincheach Mustard, coriander, seasalt, pepper
For the Feta cheese:
1 quartFull milk
1/4 Tspflaked seasalt
For the pizza toppings:
6 TbsTzatziki sauce
1 cupFeta cheese
1 TbsPickled mushrooms
2Pickled fresh grapeleaves
2 TbsGreen onions, sliced thin
For the tomato sauce:
1 cupCherry tomatoes, diced
1/2 cupRed wine
Small can tomato paste
1 Tbschopped parsley
1Garlic confit clove, minced
4 Tbsdiced Onion
1 pinchOregano
12Pickled black olives, shaved thin
1/2Fresh cucumber, sliced thin
12Fresh green grapes, halved
2Wedges of meyer lemon juice
Equipment: oven, dutch oven with lid, grill, charcoal, cheesecloth
Ingredient Cost: meat $1, cheese, yoghurt, sauces $1, vegetables $1, flour, other, 50 cents, 88 cents per portion

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Steps

1 hour

1

Bake two individual breakfast plate size pita bread pizzas. Spray top and bottom with olive oil, slide into 450F degree oven, bake till crisp, about five minutes. Set aside on counter.

California Farm Pita Bread
2

Bake half pound lamb gyros. Puree lamb meat with one egg, diced onion, garlic confit, mustard, coriander, red pepper, black pepper and salt and press in small baking dish, float in larger dish filled with hot water, bake 45 minutes at 350F degrees till lamb fat has melted away. Drain fat from gyros meat. Crumble.

California Farm Oven Baked Gyros Meat
3

Make the feta cheese: mix greek yoghurt with seasalt, press out in cheesecloth tourniquet, drain overnight, feta cheese is ready.

California Farm Yoghurt Feta Cheese
4

Make Greek yoghurt with cup of yoghurt and three cups warm buttermilk. Easy. Ferment overnight.

California Farm Greek Yoghurt and Bokashi Whey
5

Make the tzatziki sauce, 5 minutes. Use fresh mint, shallot, peppercorns, dill. Fresh cucumber purée. Fresh Yoghurt.

California Farm Tzaziki Sauce
6

Pickle the mushrooms in the fall. Preserve.

California Farm Pickled Mushrooms
7

Pickle fresh grape leaves or use canned: boil tbs vinegar, tbs brown sugar, water, tsp tarragon, dip fresh grape leaves, boil till soft, taste.

California Farm pickled Grape Leaves
8

Pickle the olives in the fall in dry salt, preserve up to a year, remove pits from olives from dry salt when ready to use. Rinse and dry and slice thin.

California Farm Olives
9

Make the garlic confit. Stays delicious for a year.

California Farm Garlic Confit and Puree
10

Make the Greek tomato sauce: canned tomatoes, tomato paste. red wine, olive oil, garlic, chopped onion, parsley, oregano. Use fresh on pizza to bake with.
11

Prep the pizza: coat tzaziki sauce on crisped pita, grape leaves on top, thin sliced cucumber on top.
12

Then, crumble half cup gyros meat on top of each individual pizza, green onions on top, garlic confit on top, mushrooms on top, tomato sauce on top, grapes, olives on top.
13

Bake and serve: sprinkle feta cheese on top, slide in oven, bake at 350F degrees till feta cheese melts, about 20 minutes, then slide under broiler in oven at 500F degrees, bake till golden crust develops, about 10 minutes. Serve and drizzle lemon juice over.

Linked Recipes

California Farm Pita Bread

California Farm Oven Baked Gyros Meat

California Farm Yoghurt Feta Cheese

California Farm Greek Yoghurt and Bokashi Whey

California Farm Tzaziki Sauce

California Farm Pickled Mushrooms

California Farm pickled Grape Leaves

California Farm Olives

California Farm Garlic Confit and Puree

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Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman

on May 22, 2025 03:10

California, United States

I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.