Celery-Apple Pizza

Ingredients

• 350 g low‑fat quark
• 100 ml milk (1.5% fat)
• 5 tbsp olive oil
• Salt
• 300 g whole wheat flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 250 g small apples (2 small apples)
• 160 g celery stalks (2 sticks)
• 5 tbsp grainy mustard
• 100 g Emmental cheese
• 120 g turkey ham (thin slices)
• 0.5 bunch Chives

Instructions

1. 1.

   In a bowl mix 180 g quark, milk, 4 tbsp oil and ½ tsp salt for the dough.

2. 2.

   Sift flour and baking powder together, add to the quark mixture and knead with a hand mixer’s dough hooks until smooth.

3. 3.

   Wash, dry, quarter and core apples; slice flesh thinly. Clean celery, slice thinly as well. Sauté celery slices in remaining oil for about 2 minutes. Add apple slices, cook briefly, then let cool slightly.

4. 4.

   Stir the remaining quark with mustard, season with salt, and grate the cheese.

5. 5.

   Divide dough on a floured surface into four portions; roll each into an elongated flatbread (≈25×15 cm).

6. 6.

   Place two pizza sheets on one sheet of parchment paper sized to your baking tray. Transfer another sheet of parchment with pizzas onto the tray.

7. 7.

   Spread quark cream over pizzas. Distribute celery‑apple mixture and turkey slices on top, halving slices if needed.

8. 8.

   Sprinkle cheese over pizzas and bake in a preheated oven at 225 °C (fan: 200 °C, gas: level 3–4) on the lowest rack for 15–20 minutes.

9. 9.

   Meanwhile wash chives, dry, and cut into rings.

10. 10.

    Remove baked pizzas from the oven, lift them with parchment. Place remaining pizzas on parchment, arrange as before, and bake again. Top all pizzas with chive rings.