Grilled Pizza
Grilled Pizza is really simple to make and once you try it, take-out and delivery will be a thing of the past. This recipe includes a simple homemade pizza sauce, mozzarella and your favorite toppings.
Servings: 2 pizzas
Calories: 524kcal
Ingredients
- Pizza Dough homemade or store bought for 2 pizzas
For the Sauce:
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup diced onion
- 2 tablespoons shredded carrot
- 15 ounces tomato sauce
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons dried marjoram
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoons granulated garlic
- 1 teaspoon ground rosemary
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon ground fennel
- ⅛ teaspoon ground red chili flakes
for the pizza
- 1 pound smoked sausage sliced thin
- ½ cup thin sliced onion
- ½ cup thin sliced sweet peppers
- ¼ cup sliced cherry tomatoes
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- ¼ cup cornmeal for sprinkling peel and pizza stone
Instructions
- Make the sauce. Add olive oil to a pan and cook onion and carrot over medium heat until softened.
- Stir in tomato sauce.
- Mix the spices together with brown sugar, salt and red pepper.
- Mix into tomato mixture, cook for 5 minutes, stirring often. Set aside and cool slightly. Pizza sauce can be made up to 1 week in advance and stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
- Roll out pizza dough, forming an 10 -12 inch circle. Fold in the outer edge.
- Sprinkle pizza peel or baking sheet (without a rim) with cornmeal.
- Place dough onto peel.
- Top with pizza sauce in a thin layer.
- Add sliced smoked sausage, tomatoes, peppers and onions.
- Top with mozzarella cheese.
- Prepare a grill fire to about 450° with a pizza stone and hickory for smoke flavor.
- Sprinkle the pizza stone with cornmeal.
- Slide the pizza onto the stone and close the grill lid.
- Lower grill to about 350° and cook for about 3- 5 minutes.
- Use a large spatula to turn pizza a ¼ turn and continue to cook with the grill closed.
- Continue to rotate pizza about every 3- 5 minutes, cooking until pizza is well browned on the bottom and the cheese starts to bubble. Total cooking time should be about 15- 20 minutes.
- Remove from grill and cool about 5 minutes before slicing.
- Repeat with remaining ingredients to make 2 pizzas.
Notes
Store cooled pizza slices in a zip top bag in the refrigerator up to 3 days.
Reheat on a baking sheet in a 350° oven or toaster oven for about 8 minutes. An air fryer is also great for reheating pizza at 350° for about 3- 5 minutes.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 524kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 22g | Fat: 33g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 17g | Cholesterol: 65mg | Sodium: 1444mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 10g