500 g make-your-own-dough (see link in story) or, frozen pizza dough, thawed
1 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon cornmeal
1 213 mL can pizza sauce
1 large garlic clove
1 teaspoon dried oregano
2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
2 cups sliced pepperoni
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Serve with:
Caesar salad
chili flakes
hot peppers
chopped basil
grated Parmesan cheese
black pepper
Takes ,
serves 6.
Instructions
Make pizza dough from scratch or bring pizza dough from freezer to fridge the night before. Bring the pizza dough from fridge to your work surface 1 hour before preparing.
Preheat oven to 450°F with the rack in the middle position. Lightly grease a 13 x 18-inch sheet pan with the olive oil. Sprinkle with cornmeal and set aside.
Pour pizza sauce into small bowl. Add grated garlic and stir to combine.
Assemble: Roll pizza dough out into a large rectangular shape on a flour surface. Size should be slightly larger than the sheet pan. Roll dough onto pin then unroll onto baking sheet, tucking the edges underneath to create a small crust within the pan.
Add the sauce onto the dough and smooth out in an even layer. Sprinkle sauce with oregano, then sprinkle the mozzarella over pizza. If making a cheese pizza, skip to step 8.
Add the pepperoni, distributing it evenly across the surface.
Transfer to oven and bake for 20 minutes or until crust is golden and cheese, pizza sauce and pepperoni are bubbling. Remove to work surface and sprinkle with Parmesan.
Move oven rack to top position and turn oven setting to broil.
Return pizza to oven and leave door slightly ajar. Bake for 1 - 2 minutes more, or until the Parmesan has melted.
Remove from oven and carefully slip the pizza from the pan to a cutting board. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting into squares. Serve immediately.
Easy Sheet Pan Pizza
Ingredients
500 g make-your-own-dough (see link in story) or, frozen pizza dough, thawed
1 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon cornmeal
1 213 mL can pizza sauce
1 large garlic clove
1 teaspoon dried oregano
2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
2 cups sliced pepperoni
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Serve with:
Caesar salad
chili flakes
hot peppers
chopped basil
grated Parmesan cheese
black pepper
Directions
Make pizza dough from scratch or bring pizza dough from freezer to fridge the night before. Bring the pizza dough from fridge to your work surface 1 hour before preparing.
Preheat oven to 450°F with the rack in the middle position. Lightly grease a 13 x 18-inch sheet pan with the olive oil. Sprinkle with cornmeal and set aside.
Pour pizza sauce into small bowl. Add grated garlic and stir to combine.
Assemble: Roll pizza dough out into a large rectangular shape on a flour surface. Size should be slightly larger than the sheet pan. Roll dough onto pin then unroll onto baking sheet, tucking the edges underneath to create a small crust within the pan.
Add the sauce onto the dough and smooth out in an even layer. Sprinkle sauce with oregano, then sprinkle the mozzarella over pizza. If making a cheese pizza, skip to step 8.
Add the pepperoni, distributing it evenly across the surface.
Transfer to oven and bake for 20 minutes or until crust is golden and cheese, pizza sauce and pepperoni are bubbling. Remove to work surface and sprinkle with Parmesan.
Move oven rack to top position and turn oven setting to broil.
Return pizza to oven and leave door slightly ajar. Bake for 1 - 2 minutes more, or until the Parmesan has melted.
Remove from oven and carefully slip the pizza from the pan to a cutting board. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting into squares. Serve immediately.
Easy Sheet Pan Pizza
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Thinly rolled dough topped with garlic-flavoured tomato sauce, shredded mozzarella, pepperoni and a sprinkle of Parmesan…
A recipe for all you stay-at-home pizzeria chef wannabes. Let’s make EASY SHEET PAN PIZZA!
This pizza recipe happened out of necessity. Trying to get a pizza delivered in cottage country is pretty much impossible, so we figured we’d just make our own. As a result; we learned that by keeping just a few essential ingredients on hand, delicious homemade pizza can become a reality any night. Everyone’s gonna love this EASY SHEET PAN PIZZA.
Here’s why this recipe works:
Only 5 essential ingredients.
Less than 15 minutes to assemble.
Make it “just cheese” or, add some pepperoni.
Just 20 minutes to bake.
Add a Caesar salad on the side for a complete meal idea.
We’ll go through a few specifics so this adventure in pizza-making work perfectly for you, but first, a couple of reminders. Don’t forget to PIN this recipe to a favourite PINTEREST board. Then BOOKMARK this page for easy reference and SHARE it with friends.
Another thing – kids love making this recipe too. Simply call them into the kitchen, assign tasks (you roll out the dough, you smear the sauce, and you sprinkle with cheese) and watch the pizza magic happen.
This truly is the best EASY SHEET PAN PIZZA!
Doesn’t take a whole lot to create this kind of deliciousness.
INGREDIENTS
Because we needed (and wanted) this recipe to be both simple to manage and easy to recreate, we selected ingredients that were already processed. This doesn’t have to be a recipe for homemade pizza dough, stew-your-own sauce and smoke-your-own homemade pepperoni. Instead, simplify it with store-bought dough, canned pizza sauce, two kinds of cheese and a package of sliced pepperoni. PRO TIP! Have two or three of each on hand at all times, so you’re ready to make this again and again.
Keep these items on hand so you can make this homemade pizza recipe again and often.
As with all WATC recipes, we encourage you to make this recipe you’re own. So although we were feeling a cheese and pepperoni pizza vibe, feel free to do everything too. Go ahead and add green or black olives, mushrooms, ham, pineapple, bacon, onions, you name it. Have fun with it!
Let the pizza dough come to room temperature about an hour before you intend to make the pizza.
PIZZA DOUGH
Although I’ve made this recipe with store-bought pizza dough (regular, whole wheat or gluten-free), I’ve recently switched to making my own homemade pizza dough from scratch. The above pic shows everything you need to make it, but the most important ingredient is Fleishchmann’s Pizza Yeast. Simply mix the yeast in with the flour, salt, sugar, oil and warm water, et voilà! Head to bakegood.ca for the full dough recipe.
Making homemade pizza dough is way easier than you might think. Making it with pizza yeast helps!
Having a yeast dough such as this at room temperature makes it more pliable and easier to work with a rolling pin. Also remember that greasing the sheet pan and adding a sprinkle of cornmeal will help the baked pizza come away from the pan when you go to serve.
Flavouring the pizza sauce with garlic and oregano gives it an extra boost of flavour.
FLAVOURFUL PIZZA SAUCE
Similar to the dough, feel free to use your favourite ready-made pizza sauce for this recipe. Notice, we said pizza sauce, not tomato sauce. Tomato sauce is both thin in texture and lacks the flavour we’re after. That’s why we amped up the flavour of the pizza sauce by adding a grated garlic clove to it plus we then sprinkled it with dried oregano. Expect some seriously saucy flavours.
The mozzarella is nice and stringy, the Parm, extra-delish.
MOZZARELLA AND PARMESAN
In the VIDEO attached to this recipe, you’ll hear me mention that you can add virtually any cheese to a pizza. In this case, we went with the classic mozzarella because of its subtle flavour and stringiness when melted. We then paired it with Parmesan which lends a bit of saltiness when sprinkled and melted onto the pepperoni. Another nice cheese combination is mozzarella and fontina cheese. For other ideas, check out our single-serve PIZZA PARTY SUGGESTIONS. The PIZZA BIANCA is my favourite.
Tuck the dough in around the edges to create a simple crust.
PIZZA CRUST
Rolling 500 grams of room-temperature pizza dough out into a large rectangle is easy, but the best way of becoming a real dough pro is to practice – which is a good thing, right? Roll the dough out applying quite a bit of pressure to stretch it and pop any large air bubbles or pockets. Before you know it, you’ll have a large rectangle of thin dough resting over the 13 x18-inch sheet pan or cookie sheet. Perfect!
Here’s the vegetarian version, just sauce and Mozzarella.
ASSEMBLE
Here’s the order for assembly; greased pan with cornmeal, dough, sauce, oregano, mozzarella, pepperoni, Parmesan. Don’t forget to skip the pepperoni if you’re looking to make a cheese lovers vegetarian version of this pizza. Either way, this homemade pizza recipe is delicious.
This pizza with two cheese is really, really tasty.
BAKE
This pizza bakes in two steps. The first is where the pepperoni-topped pizza is baked for 20 minutes in a 450°F oven. This cooks the dough to a lovely golden colour while the mozzarella melts and the sauce and pepperoni both bubble. Step two involves bumping the oven setting up to broil. Parmesan is then sprinkled onto the pizza before it heads back to the oven for a final hit of heat under the broiler. Watch the pizza closely, it’ll only need one or two minutes under the broiler, max.
Having these toppings handy takes pizza night from simple to amazing.
TOPPINGS
The goal of this recipe was to keep things easy, but we couldn’t resist taking pizza night from simple to amazing. You’ll only need a few little toppings to do so; have chili flakes, hot marinated peppers, black pepper and some extra Parmesan at the ready. Chopping up some fresh basil, if you have some handy, is also a nice touch. Wait until you bite into your first slice! It’s super delicious and tasty, right?
Keep it simple – Pizza and Caesar salad is a classic combination.
CAESAR SALAD
As mentioned off the top, this pizza recipe loves being served with our CAESAR SALAD. There’s something so pleasing about this classic pairing. Other salads that also lend themselves to a pizza party include our BLT SALAD and our HEALTHY EVERYDAY SALAD with this GREEN GODDESS SALAD DRESSING.
Easy Sheet Pan Pizza
EASY SHEET PAN PIZZA is the easy meal idea everyone loves.
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Ingredients
500 g make-your-own-dough (see link in story) or, frozen pizza dough, thawed
1 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon cornmeal
1 213 mL can pizza sauce
1 large garlic clove
1 teaspoon dried oregano
2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
2 cups sliced pepperoni
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Serve with:
Caesar salad
chili flakes
hot peppers
chopped basil
grated Parmesan cheese
black pepper
Directions
Make pizza dough from scratch or bring pizza dough from freezer to fridge the night before. Bring the pizza dough from fridge to your work surface 1 hour before preparing.
Preheat oven to 450°F with the rack in the middle position. Lightly grease a 13 x 18-inch sheet pan with the olive oil. Sprinkle with cornmeal and set aside.
Pour pizza sauce into small bowl. Add grated garlic and stir to combine.
Assemble: Roll pizza dough out into a large rectangular shape on a flour surface. Size should be slightly larger than the sheet pan. Roll dough onto pin then unroll onto baking sheet, tucking the edges underneath to create a small crust within the pan.
Add the sauce onto the dough and smooth out in an even layer. Sprinkle sauce with oregano, then sprinkle the mozzarella over pizza. If making a cheese pizza, skip to step 8.
Add the pepperoni, distributing it evenly across the surface.
Transfer to oven and bake for 20 minutes or until crust is golden and cheese, pizza sauce and pepperoni are bubbling. Remove to work surface and sprinkle with Parmesan.
Move oven rack to top position and turn oven setting to broil.
Return pizza to oven and leave door slightly ajar. Bake for 1 - 2 minutes more, or until the Parmesan has melted.
Remove from oven and carefully slip the pizza from the pan to a cutting board. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting into squares. Serve immediately.
