Homemade Pizza
Make pizza at home with this easy recipe!
Servings: 1 large pizza
Equipment
- Pizza stone
Ingredients
- 1 batch homemade pizza dough
- 1 jar pizza sauce
- mozzarella cheese, shredded
- Italian cheese blend, shredded
- pizza toppings, as desired
- pizza seasoning
- 2 tsp wheat flour
Instructions
- Place the pizza stone in the oven and preheat the oven to 450°.
- While the oven preheats, prepare any toppings that you will be putting on the pizza.
- Once the oven is preheated, carefully take out the pizza stone and place it on hot pads on the counter (it will be hot).
- Carefully sprinkle the pizza stone with wheat flour so that it coats the top of the stone. This prevents the pizza dough from sticking to the pizza stone as it cooks.
- Spread out the pizza dough over the coated pizza stone (the full recipe of pizza dough will make one medium-thickness pizza).
- Pour the pizza sauce over the crust, starting with about ½ cup of sauce. Spread the sauce around with a spoon, adding more sauce as desired. (I usually use about half of the jar.)
- Sprinkle both types of cheese evenly over the pizza. Add as much cheese as desired, but don't forget to account for the cheese melting a spreading in the oven - there is usually more cheese than you think once it cooks.
- Add the additional toppings to the pizza as desired.
- Sprinkle the pizza seasonings lightly over the pizza (I usually use about 1 teaspoon or so).
- Carefully place the pizza stone with the prepared pizza in the oven. Be sure to use hot pads, as it will still be hot.
- Bake the pizza in the oven for 15 minutes, or until the crust, cheese, and toppings are golden brown.
- Remove the pizza stone with the pizza from the oven and let it cool on the counter (on hot pads) for at least 5 minutes (10 minutes is better) before slicing and serving the pizza.
Notes
- Bobby Flay's Pizza Dough recipe is recommended, as it is what I have based the directions and cooking times on. If you use a different dough, the cooking times are likely to change.
- If you split the pizza dough recipe in half, as the original Bobby Flay recipe suggests, you will get two thinner-crust pizzas. Again, the cooking times are likely to change.
- You can use marinara sauce instead of pizza sauce.
- You can use semolina instead of wheat flour, but wheat flour just happens to be in my pantry all the time and it works very well to keep the pizza from sticking to the pizza stone.
- If you can't find pizza seasonings, you can use Italian seasoning or even omit that step.
- Waiting to cut into the pizza makes slicing through the melted cheese much easier - if you cut it too early, the super hot cheese and toppings will run right off the crust.