Chicken and Spinach Turkish Style Pizza

dale!'s Note:

Delicious! You have to give this a try. Can also be cut into fingerfood sized portions.

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 2 skinless chicken breasts
• 1⁄3; cup lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic , crushed
• 1⁄3; cup fresh mint , chopped
• 1 medium onion , chopped
• 1 (425 g) can crushed tomatoes
• 1 kg english spinach
• 2 Turkish bread (44cm)
• 200 g reduced fat feta cheese

Directions:

1. Combine chicken with lemon juice, oil, garlic and half the mint in a bowl.
2. Marinate chicken for at least 3 hours.
3. Remove chicken from the marinade and keep the marinade.
4. Cook chicken in a non-stick pan until browned on both sides.
5. Do not overcook, it can still be a bit pink in the middle.
6. Remove the breasts and cut into 1cm slices.
7. Heat reserved marinade in same pan.
8. Add the onion and cook until soft.
9. Add undrained tomatoes and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes until thickened and saucy.
10. Boil, steam or microwave the spinach until wilted and squeeze out excess liquid.
11. Top the turkish breads evenly with tomato sauce mixture, spinach, chicken, crumbled feta and remaining mint.
12. Bake in hot oven about 20 minutes until lightly browned and hot.
13. Cut each bread into 3 pieces to serve 6 or into small squares or slices to make fingerfood.

Reviews

[Maki Koyama]

To me, a Turkish (excluding desserts) dish has to have that cumin seed flavour so I added about 2 tsp of ground cumin to the filling. I made Turkish bread myself and baked the doughs stuffed with the filling, a bit like making calzone from scratch. For this, I had to reduce the volume of the filling a bit and hence did not incorporate crushed tomatoes but it still worked ok and was v. yummy!

[JustJanS]

This was a great recipe dale! Simple and really tasty. We bought bake-in-the-oven Turkish bread from Woolworths, split it in half and topped it. It was really nice and crunchy as a base. I added about a teaspoon of sugar to the tomatoes, and a little stock powder.