Homemade Pizza Recipes

This week’s collection features over two dozen recipes for homemade pizza, homemade pizza dough and pizza sauce recipes. Lots of goodies in this week’s Recipe Hit List, enjoy!

Roasted Garlic-and-Spinach White Pizza Recipe From rachaelraymag.com

• Roasted Garlic-and-Spinach White Pizza: (As seen in picture) Recipe from Every Day With Rachael Ray.
• Pizza With Caramelized Onions, Figs, Bacon and Blue Cheese: Recipe found at NY Times.
• Jeff Varasano’s Famous New York Pizza Recipe: Pizza is the most sensuous of foods. I get emails from around the world and one of the most common goes something like this: “Jeff, I had this one perfect pizza at a corner shop in Brooklyn in 1972 and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.” I love that!. That’s passion. Do you know how many forgettable meals have come and gone since then. What kind of pizza leaves a 35 year impression? Let me describe it to you. The crust is slightly charred. It has a crisp outer layer, but inside it’s airy and light. The ingredients are not piled high, but instead are perfectly balanced. It’s sweet, salty, full flavored but not greasy. The tomatoes burst with flavor. Each bite makes you hungrier for the next. If this is what you want, you’ve come to the right place. Recipe found at Varasano’s.
• Three Cheese White Pizza: I haven’t included quantities in the list of ingredients below because I don’t believe any two people like exactly the same amount of cheese on their pizza. So, feel free to use as much or as little as you like to achieve the right level of cheesiness. I used about 1/3 – 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, 1/4 – 1/3 cup ricotta cheese and a few tablespoons of Parmesan cheese. Recipe found at Tracey’s Culinary Adventures.
• Homemade Pizza Hut Original Pan Pizza & Homemade Ranch Dressing with Breadsticks: So yummy and delicious!! Well worth the work! Recipe found at Day 2 Day With Holly J.
• Thin Crust Barbecue Chicken Pizza: The crust is an adaption of Stephanie Nielson’s whole wheat pizza crust. I wanted some white flour, so it’s about a 50/50 split. You can do all white or all wheat. Whatever you want. For the order of things, I would suggest you make the sauce then make the dough. While the dough is rising, prepare the toppings. Then roll out the dough and put on the toppings. Recipe found at Rookie Cookie.
• Deep Dish Pizza: This recipe is another one of my favorite super easy, quick to throw together, family pleasing, and incredibly delicious meals, originally from mother’s recipe collection. One of the best things about it is how incredibly adaptable it is to whatever ingredients you have on hand! I’ve made it with absolutely no cheese before and it was still delicious! Recipe from Southern Plate.
• Pizza with Goat Cheese, Chicken, Sundried Tomatoes & Spinach: I made this recipe tonight in an attempt to re-create a dish that I used to enjoy when I was a college student in Washington, DC. On lovely spring afternoons, like the ones we’ve been enjoying lately here in North Georgia, my friends and I would walk over to a little Italian restaurant in our neighborhood, and this pizza is the dish I would order almost every single time. It is a combination of five of my favorite foods: pizza, goat cheese, chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, and spinach. Recipe found at Vintage Victuals.
• Homemade Pizza with Bacon, Egg and Asparagus: This is a recipe for one small pizza to share with your partner on a mid-Sunday morning. The quickest I’ve done it is in two hours (you can hurry it by doubling the yeast and using warm water in the dough), but you might want to make the dough a day or two before. Because it’s small—it will give you a ball of dough the size of a softball—it’s quickest just to mix and knead it by hand. If you want to feed more people, it can be doubled for a large pizza or two small pizzas. Recipe from Michael Ruhlman.
• BBQ Chicken Pizza: With some BBQ chicken I made in advance yesterday, I took the shredded chicken and made the following BBQ pizza. It’s pretty easy to make homemade pizza and I wish I felt more confident working with yeast sooner! Instead of resorting to bottled BBQ sauce, I set out to try Tyler Florence’s recipe. I made some adaptations to the original recipe by dicing up the bacon, using yellow mustard instead of dry, adding more garlic and using dark versions for the brown sugar and molasses. It was a nice rich flavor and was a breeze to make in advance. I plan on making the BBQ sauce recipe again for the upcoming grill and BBQ season! Recipe found at Joelen’s Culinary Adventures.
• Grilled Pizza with Hot Sausage, Grilled Peppers and Onions and Oregano Ricotta: Recipe from the Food Network.
• Supreme Veggie Pizza with Mozzarella and Feta: We had this for our Friday Night Pizza a few weeks ago. It was so good. I’ve quickly become a big fan of pizza on the grill and pizza night in general. I love the flavor of grilled pizza. It cooks so fast and the crust gets that great chewy/crunchy texture. Recipe found at goodLife {eats}.
• Pizza Margherita In 4 Easy Steps: Even a novice cook can master the art of pizza with our simple step-by-step guide. Bellissimo. Recipe found at BBC Good Food.
• Buffalo Sweet Potato & Blue Cheese Pizza: This pizza is nothing short of awesome. The potatoes give it a sweet and creamy base, the buffalo sauce gives it a hefty kick and the blue cheese adds deep flavor and a little decadence. Even if you’re not vegetarian, I can’t imagine a better pizza for a Friday night or Sunday afternoon. The perfect accompaniment to a frosty pint of beer. Recipe found at bitchincamero.
• Turkish Pizza Recipe: This has to be one of my favorite Turkish street foods. I got the great opportunity to watch how they are made, not out of choice, I might add! We had ordered 2 of the pizza’s at this little restaurant right beside the local mosque in Fethiye, and the owner spotted me taking pictures around the place earlier. He quickly dragged me in to the kitchen, full of pride and instructed me to take pictures of the pizza’s being made! Recipe found at The Good Mood Food Blog.
• Grilled Pizza Recipe: A few years ago I came across a grilled pizza recipe somewhere (probably on a cooking show or in a lifestyle magazine) and fell hard for the idea. Since that time my family and friends have had many an opportunity to enjoy my super quick and easy grilled pizza. We have even had a build your own grilled pizza party which is like the traditional build your own pizza party only the pizza gets cooked on the grill. So grab a glass of wine and enjoy the novelty and the pizza.
• Meat Lite: Roasted Vegetable and Pepperoni Stromboli: Like so many of my favorite “Italian” foods, stromboli is as American as it gets. In fact, this rolled and baked sandwich, a close cousin of pizza, may well have been invented on my home turf—at Romano’s Stromboli just outside Philadelphia. Recipe found at Serious Eats.
• Mediterranean Pizza: A yummy pizza inspired by my love for feta cheese! This salty cheese really pops in this pizza! Recipe found at KimDeC.

Homemade Pizza Dough Recipes
*Note: Descriptions below are quotes from the recipe sites

• Jamie Oliver’s Pizza Dough Recipe: This is a fantastic, reliable, everyday pizza dough, which can also be used to make bread. It’s best made with Italian Tipo ‘00’ flour, which is finer ground than normal flour, and it will give your dough an incredible super-smooth texture. Look for it in Italian delis and good supermarkets. If using white bread flour instead, make sure it’s a strong one that’s high in gluten, as this will transform into a lovely, elastic dough, which is what you want. Mix in some semolina flour for a bit of colour and flavour if you like. Recipe from Jamie Oliver.
• Now or Later Pizza: An overnight rest in the fridge for the dough gives this pizza crust superb flavor and a delightfully crisp-chewy texture. Recipe from King Arthur Flour.
• A Simple & Easy Basic Pizza DoughThis is a fantastic recipe that I have adapted for my bread machine and it makes one delicious pizza. The recipe offers instructions for making the dough in a food processor (recommended by Bittman), by hand, or with a stand mixer. At the bottom, I offer how I am able to adapt this for the bread machine. Basically, you can make it with something or nothing nothing at all, which is why this recipe is an all-around winner in my book! Recipe from Mom Advice.
• No Rise Pizza Crust: Homemade pizza is a favorite around here, but I sometimes struggle with the timing of it all. I either want to make my supper in the morning and pop it in the oven right before we eat, or start (and finish!) cooking an hour before supper. Until I saw Crystal’s recipe, I never thought to try a no-rise dough. This one really works for me! Recipe found at The Finer Things In Life.
• Best Pizza Dough Ever Recipe: If you like to wait until the last minute to make pizza dough, you are out of luck here. The key is the overnight fermentation. You end up with a golden, beautiful crust with the perfect amount of crunch and subtle yeasty undertones. Recipe from 101 Cookbooks.
• No-Knead Pizza Dough: Adapted from Jim Lahey, Co. Makes four 12-inch pizza crusts. Recipe found at Tasting Table New York.

Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipes
*Note: Descriptions below are quotes from the recipe sites

• Zesty Old School Style Pizza Sauce: Growing up my parents took us kids to an old style pizza house their friends owned. “Uncle” Loren had the best pizza in town to me. I would climb up a small brick staircase onto a platform, and watch through a glass window as the skillful pizza guys made our pies. This is where my obsession with pizza was born and nurtured. This zesty sauce recipe is as close as I can come to that beautiful thick sauce. It’s what I make when I want a nostalgic, American style pizza house pie. Recipe found at The Cooking Photographer.
• The Quickest Tomato Sauce: I learnt this recipe from my mate and mentor Gennaro Contaldo. It’s a brilliant, basic tomato sauce for using on pizza and it’s also great with pasta or to serve alongside meat or fish – quick, fresh, fragrant and sweet. Recipe from Jamie Oliver.
• Tutorial: Homemade Sundried Tomato Pizza Pesto Sauce: Technically I suppose this is not a true pesto because it does not have nuts and cheese in it but perhaps the culinary police will let it slide? This was the best tasting sauce for a pizza that I have had in forever. The sundried tomatoes are packed with flavour and only a few go a long way. Recipe from Suzie The Foodie.
• Pizza Sauce: Recipe from Olivelle.

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