Pizza with Feta, Tomatoes, Olives & Spinach

Inspired by the cookbook Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, there is a recipe for pizza with feta, tomatoes and olives but they put this topping on brioche. Since I had some left over dough and some spinach after making fataya, I thought it would make a good pizza. The baked tomatoes with olive oil and balsalmic vinegar gives the tomatoes a sweet and sour flavor, so good with feta cheese.

Use the dough recipe for fataya. (posted July 31, 2012) or buy premade pizza dough.


Make the dough and leave it aside to rise.

While the dough is rising, prepare the tomatoes:
You need:
2 plum tomatoes
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried mint

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
Cut the tomatoes into quarters lengthwise and then cut each quarter into 2 long pieces.
Place on a baking sheet skin side down, trickle 1 teaspoon of olive oil and 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar over the tomatoes, sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon of coarse sea salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper and 1/2 teaspoon dried mint.
Put in the oven uncovered and bake for an hour.

To prepare the onions:
You need:
1 onion
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 clove garlic crushed

Next slice an onion, and heat a tablespoon olive oil in a pan, place the onions and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon sugar. Saute over high heat for 7 minutes, stirring from time to time until golden brown. Add 1 crushed clove of garlic and leave to cool.
You can prepare the tomatoes and the onions ahead and leave in the refrigerator until you are about to make the pizza. The dough can rise all day.



For the topping:
You will need the baked tomato wedges
The caramelized onions
3 oz. feta cheese crumbled
3 oz. mozzarella cheese grated
8 kalamata pitted olives
1/4 cup cooked spinach
4 canned artichoke hearts

Turn the oven up to 400 degrees F.
Roll out the dough and arrange on a round baking tin(spray pan with Pam first)
Brush the dough with olive oil.
Arrange the spinach on the pizza
Next quarter the artichoke hearts and place around the pizza.
Place the tomato wedges around the outer edge, scatter the halved olives, crumble the feta cheese and scatter the mozzarella evenly over all.
Drizzle a little olive oil over the top and place in the oven for 20 minutes.