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Onion-mushroom-feta Flatbread

Do you ever have those days where you open up your fridge and have no idea what to do with your leftovers?  Have a dangling onion and a few mushrooms leftover from pasta night the other day?  Not including salt and pepper, I’ll have your leftover ingredients turned into a simple, elegant, delicious dish!  Try this easy method of getting rid of leftovers.  It’s quick, easy, super delicious, and a great crowd pleaser (even for vegetarian friends!)

Make Your Own Flatbread

Makes 1 flatbread pizza
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes

*Check out my helpful tips along the way!  They will be starred (*).

Ingredients:

• Pizza dough

*Available at most grocery stores.  Check out Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods for awesome fresh balls of pizza dough!

• ½ cup of mushrooms, sliced (about 6-7 mushrooms)

*I recommend crimini mushrooms (baby portabellos) but any mushroom will do!

• ½ cup of onions, diced (1 medium onion)
• ⅓ – ½ cup of Feta cheese, crumbled

*You can substitute with goat cheese or any shredded cheese you like!

• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions:

1.     Roll out the pizza dough until it is about 1/8 of an inch thick.  Continue to throw flour underneath and overtop of the dough to keep it from sticking.

*If you like thicker crusts, by all means, leave it a little thicker.  Flour your rolling pin before working the dough.  Make sure to always roll from the center of the dough outward.

2.     With a fork, prick the center of the dough to keep the center from rising and to have a nice puffy crust.

3.     Drizzle the dough with olive oil and pop it into the oven and 375˚ for 3-5 minutes.

4.     While the dough is baking, coat the bottom of a non-stick skillet with olive oil over medium heat.  Add the mushrooms and onions and sauté them until they’re a nice golden brown.

*Add the pepper after dropping the onions and mushrooms into the pan, but hold off on the salt.  Wait until the onions have gotten little translucent and the mushrooms have a bit of a golden-brown to them, then add the salt!

5.   Pull out the crust and arrange the onions, mushrooms, and cheese on the pizza.  Drizzle the crust with a little more olive oil.

6.   Put the flatbread pizza back into the oven at 375˚ for another 3-5 minutes to melt the cheese.  Enjoy!

What will your favorite flatbread combinations be?  Post them here!

UMBC will be the Baltimore host site for the 2011 Global Game Jam, an international computer game making festival taking place this coming weekend, January 28th-30th. This is a 48 hour event, where teams from around the globe work to each develop a complete game over one weekend. The first year had 54 sites in 23 countries. Last year, there were 124 sites in 34 countries. The Baltimore site is open to participants at all skill levels, and it is not necessary to be a UMBC student to register. Thanks to generous support by Next Century there is no registration fee for the UMBC site. Participation will be limited to the first 40 registrants.

The jam will start at 5:00pm on Friday 28 January in the UMBC GAIM Lab, ECS room 005a. At that time, the theme for this year's games will be announced, and we'll brainstorm game ideas and form into teams. There is no need to come as a team: each individual has an equal chance to pitch their game ideas, and you can join the team whose game you like best. Teams will have until 3:00pm on Sunday 30 January to develop their games. We'll have demos of each game and selection of local awards, wrapping up by 5:00pm Sunday.