Greek Pizza
Published on April 08, 2013
Tonight the madness will end. Who will win the big dance-Michigan or Louisville? I didn’t pick either team, my bracket got messed up a long time ago. I am not sure who I will cheer for, probably Michigan. I have to route for the Big Ten team. I just hope it’s an entertaining game. I’ve spent a lot of hours watching basketball over the past few weeks and I hope the final game is a good one.
I asked Josh if he wanted anything special for dinner and of course he said pizza. He said pizza is a must for championship night. I am ok with that. You can’t beat a good game of basketball and pizza. We are making our new favorite pizza-Greek Pizza. If you are a fan of Greek Salad, you will love this pizza. It has all of the same ingredients and flavors, but instead of a salad you get pizza! Kind of awesome, right?
I am totally cheating tonight and using Trader Joe’s whole wheat pizza dough. You can make the dough from scratch, we usually do, but tonight I am keeping it easy so we can focus on the game! The pizza crust gets topped with olive oil, mozzarella cheese, and red onion. Bake until the cheese is melted and the crust is golden brown.
When the pizza comes out of the oven sprinkle on all of the fun Greek toppings-cucumber, tomatoes, Kalamata olives, and feta cheese. Oh-and don’t forget the tzatziki sauce. It is amazing on this pizza-don’t skip it. If you’ve never made tzatziki sauce before, try out our favorite recipe. Don’t worry, it’s so easy and super tasty. It’s a staple in our house. You can whip it up while the pizza is in the oven.
This Greek Pizza is fresh, flavorful, and a fun way to mix up pizza night. Give it a try! It’s perfect for Meatless Monday AND championship Monday! Head on over to Tasty Kitchen for the recipe and step-by-step photos! Enjoy the pizza and the game!
I haven’t watched any of the games but I’ll take that pizza. 😀
And Trader Joe’s whole wheat pizza dough so doesn’t count as cheating. You have to roll it out and put on your toppings and everything. It counts as just plain awesome. 🙂
It won’t be Greek without the tzatziki sauce!
My husband would love this…must find Greek salad for lunch!
YES! Pizza is the perfect food for tonight. I’m all for big 10
I saw this recipe over the weekend! It looks yummy!! Loving the pizza crust!!
This pizza looks delicious. I’ve made greek salad sandwiches and they are delicious. I love all those flavors. Would the tzatziki sauce be good spread on the dough instead of over the toppings?
Two of my favorite food flavors: pizza and Greek!!! Oh, and tzatziki. I think I could live on that stuff. That and cookies. 😉 Looks delicious!
Love Greek ingredients, love pizza, love this idea of putting them together! We are homemade pizza fiends, and I’m always on the look out for twists on a classic. PS. Trader Joe’s pizza dough is not cheating. Rolling it out and baking totally counts! I say, you are using your resources 🙂
These are my favorite flavors, ever!
My favorite food is Pizza!!!
This sounds like perfect food for the big game! Love all of those Greek flavors!!
Awesome flavors!
Looks just delicious, Maria! I’m becoming a fan of the bake it-then top it-pizzas lately, though focaccia is my new obsession.
Thanks!
Looks amazing! I love Greek everything and this is definitely happening soon!
I love this idea! We have a brick pizza oven in our backyard, so we do pizza a lot, but I had never thought to do it Greek style! Yum!
WOW, that looks delightful!!
Oh my gosh this pizza looks amazing!!
Best idea ever!!!!
I love it Maria! I bet my Greek hubby would love this!
I love pizza in all it’s glorious forms (and toppings!)
Pizza sounds awesome on this cold rainy day!
Love how easy this is…and something different!
I love greek salad and pizza, so can’t even begin to imagine how awesome this must taste! Tzatziki is one of my favourite sauces as well, we need to have a pizza night here! 🙂
This pizza needs to be dinner tonight… love the Greek-inspired toppings!
Definitely heading over to Tasty Kitchen – LOVE Greek recipes like this
This looks amazing and the tatziki sauce just takes the cake!
Oh man! Now I’m craving pizza. Will have to put it on the menu for later this week 🙂
One of my biggest pregnancy cravings now is chicken Greek Salad wraps. Greek salad pizza…now I’m really in trouble! Thanks for posting this! 😀
This pizza looks so good with all it’s fresh ingredients. A must pin for later 😉
I love greek food & I love pizza ~ soooo this sounds like the perfect pizza pie!
Gotta cheer for Michigan and the Big Ten, being a WI girl. But my bracket was messed up a long time ago as well 🙂
Wish I didn’t have dinner planned already, this would make some great game time food!
This pizza looks so good! I’ve had Greek pizza before, but yours looks like the best- I will definitely try it!
If only my GREEK boyfriend like feta cheese!! But he does love cucumbers..so maybe the two would cancel each other out. These toppings sound perfect to me!
I love Greek salad and I love pizza, so this is basically a dream!
This looks amazing! I have a great authentic recipe for tzatziki where you strain the yogurt first – you should try it sometime! http://www.scratchymama.com/2013/03/18-greek-gyros-with-homemade-tzatziki.html
I love anything Greek! This looks awesome and I love all the ingredients on it! I’ll be watching the game with my computer in my lap haha 🙂
The greek pizza looks incredible! All the veggies on top make it seem so healthy. It looks amazing! Thank you for the idea!
Holy moly Maria! I love how easy it is to truly make something as wonderful as this pizza. It is screaming my name. I love Mediterranean/greek food so much, but never once thought to put it on pizza. Duh Sally! 🙂
We have made something almost identical to this for many years, but instead of pizza crust, brush some olive oil on frozen pitas and pop them in the oven to crisp them up before adding the toppings and finishing them up in the oven. Individual Greek Pizzas!! They are yummy and a family favorite.
This is a fun new pizza twist!
Oh my gosh, I saw this post yesterday and knew I had to make it for dinner last night! And I’m so glad I did! This was incredible! One of the best things I’ve ever made. Thank you Maria!
Glad you liked the pizza!
Wow, this pizza has the best flavors, can’t wait to try it!
Yum! Looks good!
Love the idea of Greek pizza! It definitely requires tzatziki or cacik sauce! YUM!
Oh Maria – this looks fantastic!
I need this for dinner tonight! Looks soooooo good!
The pizza crust looks too good to be true! I’m hungry for dinner!
I’m not a big fan of basketball, but I’m definitely a huge fan of this greek pizza! It looks amazing.
That looks Soooooooooooooooooo yummy!! I am trying this for dinner!!! Right now I’ll just sit here and work… starving…
I am loving all of the flavours in this pizza!
What a refreshing twist on pizza! I didn’t know TJ’s had pizza dough, gonna check it out! Sometimes you have to cheat…
Okay..this is just brilliant. Definitely perfect for another Friday pizza night.
Ohhhhh yum, we made this pizza last night! It was so delicious, I can’t stop thinking about. We also made your homemade Tzatziki Sauce, which turned out amazing. Thank you for sharing! I will definitely add this to my list of favorite recipes! 🙂
I love this recipe it looks beautiful, but as a Kentuckian it’ll eat me alive if I don’t tell you that the University of Kentucky is in Lexington, not Louisville. Very big difference as far as the cities go. That said, thanks and I can’t wait to try this!