The NFC North Champion Chicago Bears close out the regular season at home today against the Lions and today's pizza is inspired by the large Middle Eastern population in Detroit and nearby Dearborn MI, where you can find some of the best shawarma in the country, and there's no better pizza for me to represent the culture.

My pizza version starts out with a layer of lebanese olive oil and is topped with shredded mozzarella, homemade thinly sliced lamb shawarma, and a touch more mozzarella.

After a quick bake, the pizza is finished with the traditional garnishes of middle eastern pickles, pickled turnips, sumac pickled onions, homemade garlicky toum, shatta, which is a middle eastern red pepper hot sauce, pomegranate molasses, and fresh parsley and mint.

As a man of Jordanian decent, I had to paint a beautiful picture of my culture with this one and my friends… it might be my masterpiece. 🎨🖼

The spiced lamb pairs perfectly with the array of different pickles then you punched with the garlicky toum and heat from the shatta but then tart molasses and fresh herbs balance it all out to levels that my words can't even do it justice.

Hopefully the Bears can close out the regular season with a win today against the Lions today and lock up the two seed as we had to the playoffs, but no matter if they win or lose, atleast the pizza was good 🤷

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PS: PLAYOFF CHICAGO SQUARES NEXT WEEK FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!

Chicago Squares Week 18: Lamb Shawarma Pizza
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12 comments

  5. Pomegranate molasses is such an underrated ingredient. It packs such a punch of flavor.

  6. Damn that looks so good as always. How did the lamb do being cooked and then in the pizza oven. I’m guessing since it’s such a short bake in the pizza oven, it didn’t have too much of a problem, but I know lamb is always tricky if it over cooks.

  8. Dude. This one is on another level. My kids and I always enjoy your videos Sunday morning.

  10. Absolutely beautiful! Just the shawarma alone is enough to get the stomach growling this morning, seriously well done.

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