Pomegranate pizza

 

This is pomegranate pizza, based on a recipe from Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East and North Africa by Habeeb Salloum. (Hey, you can look inside this book on Amazon and find the recipe by searching for -- you guessed it -- pomegranate pizza.)

I cheated by spreading the topping on pita breads and throwing them under the grill (=broiler) -- you would too if you were making this on a day that was close to 40 C in a house without air conditioning. Also I didn't have any green onions, and used grated Cheezly mozzarella rather than feta. I like the way that the cheese is mixed into the sauce in this recipe -- it kind of sneaks up on you.

Pomegranate seeds are still something of a 'what the hell do I do with these?' ingredient for me. That this recipe worked out so well was a pleasant surprise.