Summary:
A delicious and easy pan pizza recipe with simple homemade pizza dough -- no kneading required.
INGREDIENTS
Dough:
- 1 1/2 cups
all-purpose flour about 7 ounces - 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon
instant yeast - 3/4 cup hot water 120 F
Toppings:
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 12 pieces pepperoni
Other:
- 2 tablespoons
canola oil - 1/2 tablespoon
yellow corn meal
INSTRUCTIONS
- In a large bowl, combine and whisk together flour, salt, and yeast. Add hot water and stir until the flour is incorporated into the dough. If too dry, add additional hot water. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 3 hours until doubled in size and puffy.
Oil the bottom of a 10-inch cast iron skillet using 1 tablespoon of canola oil. Evenly sprinkle with yellow corn meal. - Use floured hands to form the dough into a ball. If too sticky, add additional flour until it is manageable. Place the dough ball onto the cast iron pan, and spread it out so that it almost covers the entire bottom of the pan.
- Cover the pan with a lid or large plate. Let sit at room temperature for about 2 hours. The dough should have expanded to the edges of the pan. Stretch the dough out to ensure that it fills the whole pan.
- Preheat the oven as high as it will go, preferably 550 F. Do not broil.
- Top the dough with pizza sauce, then cheese, then pepperoni. Evenly drizzle 1 tablespoon of canola oil on top.
- Bake until the top of the pizza is golden brown and bubbly, 10 to 15 minutes. Watch carefully after 10 minutes.
- If the bottom of the pizza is not crispy and golden, place the cast iron pan on a stovetop burner over medium heat and cook for a few minutes until crispy.
- Optionally garnish the pizza with freshly chopped parsley. Let the pizza cool for 10 minutes before serving.
NUTRITION
383 kcal/serving
I recommend measuring out the flour in weight and not volume. If you don’t have a digital scale and you are measuring in volume, your dough may turn out to be too dry such that it doesn’t stick together into a cohesive dough or too wet and sticky to handle after mixing with water. If that’s the case, add additional water or flour in small spoonfuls until the dough becomes manageable.
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NOTES & TIPS
I recommend measuring out the flour in weight and not volume. If you don’t have a digital scale and you are measuring in volume, your dough may turn out to be too dry such that it doesn’t stick together into a cohesive dough or too wet and sticky to handle after mixing with water. If that’s the case, add additional water or flour in small spoonfuls until the dough becomes manageable.
Well I gave this recipe a try, I used self rising flour & doubled it, its in the resting/rising stage. Cannot wait to finish it off & eat it! Excited to try this one!!
Sounds great, hope you love the pizza!! 🙂
I made this pizza today with King Arthur Bread flour and the crust was so easy to make and tasted fantastic. I topped it with half the amount of mozzarella and approx 1 cup of pre -roasted eggplant and aquash cubes. I loved it and will make it often. Thanks!
Wonderful, I’m glad it turned out so well for you! I’m always amazed at how easy this crust is. Eggplant is such a good idea here, I might have to try that next 🙂
This looks amazing! I can’t eat gluten/wheat, but I bet my kids would love this! I love your easy instructions!
That’s so sweet, thank you Karen!