Student Homemaker

This is a great variation on a meaty pizza.  Satisfyingly different, but comfortingly similar.  It’s a garlic lamb flatbread.

Before I start with the recipe for the flatbread, let me draw your attention to my standard pizza recipe.

Serves 2

Ingredients:
Pizza dough
3 tbsp garlic butter
450g (1lb) lamb mince
Two handfuls fresh parsley

1. If your’re making your own garlic butter, make it first.  While I do make my own, BP and I both agreed that the ratio of butter to garlic wasn’t right.  While I did smell and taste beforehand, it turned out to need some work.  Chill until needed.  This can be made way way ahead.  Use a scraping of this garlic butter ( whatever’s left on the fork after making it is fine) to grease the baking tray.
2. Make up your pizza dough.  I use a packet mix, because it saves me being so disappointed when I haven’t quite enough flour or something like that.  I frequently get caught out like that.  Anyway, pull into the size of your greased baking tray and leave your dough to rise for the recommended time by your recipe or mix.
3. 5 minutes before the dough is risen, take out the garlic butter from the fridge so that it softens to spreading consistency.
4. When the dough is risen, spread over the garlic butter.  Doesn’t need to be even, but does need to be all over the dough.
5. Now crumble over your lamb mince, then your parsley.  The lamb mince wants to be crumbled as finely as you have the patience for.  Also, I keep a plant of parsley and pick off the parsley while my dough is rising.  Apparently, parsley is really good for you, so I guess the more parsley the better.
6. Bake the flatbread for 20 minutes at 200C on the highest position in your oven.  Then enjoy!

BP and I have this recipe as a main course for the two of us.  He’s really pleased as it feels so much like a manly dish - a good tide-over until barbeque season arrives.  I’d also serve this as a nice sharing snack next time BP has the boys over for card games.  They’re in for a treat because I also have a pack of chicken wings for them that’s far too big for the two of us.

I reckon this dinner will be a hit with any family/friends who like pizza or garlic bread and meat.  I’ve mentioned before that I don’t like meat on pizza, but I really love this.  A great advantage is that it tastes quite different from pizza so you feel like you’re eating a nice variety of food.  However, at the same time, both cooks and eaters will be reassured by the similarities to pizza.  Another is that you can keep most of the ingredients in a stash and cook up the dish when you find reduced or on-offer mince.