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Greek Pizza with Feta

This Greek pizza with feta is bursting with Mediterranean flavor! Top it with colorful veggies for a pie that pleases…

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This Greek pizza with feta is bursting with Mediterranean flavor! Top it with colorful veggies for a pie that pleases everyone.

Greek pizza with feta

Here’s a pizza topping idea that always gets rave reviews, with its smattering of colorful vegetables and hearty flavor: this Greek Pizza with Feta! There’s nothing better than the combination of tangy artichoke hearts, refreshing bursts of tomato, garlicky spinach, and salty olives and feta. We love a great veggie pizza, and this one is what we turn to most often. It’s destined to be the smash hit of your pizza night!

Ingredients in Greek pizza with feta

Greek pizza is not authentically Greek, but the classic Italian pizza pie dressed up with Mediterranean-style toppings. Many restaurants and pizzerias serve a version of this pizza and use different toppings. This one we’ve customized to the ingredients we love seeing on a Greek pizza, but feel free to customize it to your tastes if there are others you prefer. Here are the elements you’ll need:

  • Pizza dough: our favorites are Best Pizza Dough, Thin Crust Pizza Dough and Pizza Oven Dough, but there are a few more options below
  • Pizza sauce: This Homemade Pizza Sauce is a must! The flavor is the best you’ll ever have (we promise)
  • Shredded mozzarella cheese: holds everything together like glue
  • Feta cheese: feta cheese is required! It adds just the right salty seasoning to the top of the pie
  • Baby spinach
  • Kalamata olives (optional)
  • Artichoke hearts
  • Red onion
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Dried oregano
  • Fresh basil, for garnish

Again, you can customize to your own tastes if you prefer Greek pizza with other ingredients. Other options include sundried tomatoes, roasted red peppers, cured meats, or chicken.

Greek pizza

For the pizza dough

The trick to the best Greek pizza? Homemade pizza dough. There are several pizza dough options we’ve developed over the years: the first is our workhorse and the best for making an incredible artisan-style pizza. It works best with a pizza stone. Or if you prefer, try one of our other methods for the dough: like a thick-crust pan pizza or a large sheet pan pizza that’s 3 pizzas in one! Here are the pizza dough options:

  • Best Pizza Dough: The standard! This pizza dough makes a medium artisan style pizza; it works best on a pizza stone. A pizza peel is helpful for transferring the dough onto the stone (see below).
  • Thin Crust Pizza Dough: This variation is slightly easier, since you can roll it out instead of stretching it.
  • Pizza Oven Dough: Got a pizza oven? This is the dough recipe for you.
  • Perfect Pan Pizza: Make your pizza in a cast-iron skillet! Takes a little longer but there are no special tools required. Makes one medium pizza.
  • Best-Ever Sheet Pan Pizza: This one makes recipe the size of 3 pizzas in a large sheet pan: perfect for serving a crowd!
Feta pizza

Homemade pizza sauce is a must

The key to this Greek pizza? The homemade pizza sauce! While you can use a purchased sauce if you must, we highly recommend making the homemade version. The flavor is unreal! Here’s what to know:

  • Fire roasted tomatoes and garlic make magic. One spoonful and you’ll be singing its praises! Fire roasted canned tomatoes have a sweet, smoky flavor right out of the can. They are essential to the flavor, so they’re worth seeking out! Check in your local grocery near the canned tomatoes: they’re becoming much more widespread and are sold by several different brands.
  • It takes 5 minutes in a blender! There’s no need to simmer: just throw everything in a blender and whiz it up. This is one of our most-made recipes on the website!

Pizza making tools

If you choose the standard pizza dough recipe, the following tools are helpful for baking the crust. Again, if you chose the pan pizza or sheet pan pizza recipes above, no extra tools are needed!

Greek pizza

Sides for Greek pizza with feta

What to serve with Greek pizza? Make a big salad and heap it on your plate with a big cheesy slice. In fact, we love trying to have a few different salad and veggie options to complement the rich pie. Here are a few great side dishes for pizza:

More homemade pizza recipes

Want a few more pizza topping ideas for your pizza night? Here are a few great homemade pizza recipes:

This feta pizza recipe is…

Vegetarian.

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Greek pizza with feta

Greek Pizza with Feta

  • Author: Sonja Overhiser
  • Prep Time: 1 hour
  • Cook Time: 7 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 7 minutes
  • Yield: 1 medium pizza
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Description

This Greek pizza with feta is bursting with Mediterranean flavor! Top it with colorful veggies for a pie that pleases everyone.

Ingredients

  • ⅓ cup Homemade Pizza Sauce
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 2 cups baby spinach or chopped spinach
  • 1 pinch each salt and garlic powder
  • 4 Kalamata olives, halved (optional)
  • ¼ cup chopped artichoke hearts
  • 1 handful red onion slices
  • 4 cherry tomatoes, quartered
  • ½ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
  • ½ cup feta cheese
  • ¼ teaspoon dried oregano
  • 4 basil leaves (optional)

Instructions

  1. Make the pizza dough: Follow the Best Pizza Dough, Thin Crust Pizza Dough or Pizza Oven Dough recipes to prepare the dough. (This takes about 15 minutes to make and 45 minutes to rest.)
  2. Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 500°F. OR preheat your pizza oven (here’s the pizza oven we use).
  3. Make the pizza sauce: Make the Homemade Pizza Sauce. (You’ll use about ⅓ cup for the pizza; reserve the remaining sauce and refrigerate for up to 1 week.)
  4. Prepare the toppings: Warm the olive oil in small skillet. Add the spinach, 1 pinch salt, and 1 pinch garlic powder. Sauté over medium heat for 2 minutes until the spinach is wilted. Half the Kalamata olives, chop the artichoke hearts, thinly slice the red onion, and quarter the cherry tomatoes. 
  5. Bake the pizza: When the oven is ready, dust a pizza peel with cornmeal or semolina flour. (If you don’t have a pizza peel, you can use a rimless baking sheet or the back of a rimmed baking sheet. But a pizza peel is well worth the investment!) Stretch the dough into a circle; see How to Stretch Pizza Dough for instructions. Then gently place the dough onto the pizza peel.
  6. Spread a thin layer of the pizza sauce over the dough. Add the mozzarella cheese. Top with the spinach, olives, artichoke, red onion, and tomatoes. Sprinkle with the feta cheese and dried oregano. Add a few pinches of kosher salt and some fresh ground pepper, to taste.
  7. Use the pizza peel to carefully transfer the pizza onto the preheated pizza stone. Bake the pizza until the cheese and crust are nicely browned, about 5 to 7 minutes in the oven (or 1 to 2 minutes in a pizza oven).
  8. Allow the pizza to cool for a minute or two before adding the basil on top (whole leaves, lightly torn, or thinly sliced). Slice into pieces and serve immediately.
  • Category: Main dish
  • Method: Baked
  • Cuisine: Pizza
  • Diet: Vegetarian

Keywords: Greek pizza, feta pizza, feta pizza recipe

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