Grilled Pizza
We have made grilled pizza many times and have been pleased by the results. Whether starting with our homemade pizza dough or purchasing pizza dough from the supermarket, this is a fun way to make pizza. It is best to use cold dough as it is less likely to stick to the hot grill, but we have also done it without refrigerating the dough. As in any good pizza, using good quality oil, cheese, sauce, and extra toppings will make a big difference. Originally served as part of: Pizza on the Grill.
Ingredients
- 1 batch store-bought pizza dough or homemade, cold from the refrigerator dough
- all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
- coarse salt
- 1 cup tomato sauce (heated)
- 6 ounces mozzarella cheese (freshly grated)
- roasted zucchini (heated)
- pepperoni
Instructions
We preheat our gas grill to medium high heat.
Meanwhile, we divide the dough into 4 portions and stretch to make a thin crust, adding additional flour so that it is not too sticky when we put it on a wax paper lined plate. We also warm the sauce and zucchini in bowls in the microwave so they are not refrigerator cold.
We get the oil ready in a little prep bowl and put it on a platter with a pastry brush, a prep bowl of coarse salt, the tomato sauce, cheese, zucchini and the pepperoni. We bring the platter out to the preheated grill along with the pizza dough.
For each little pizza, we coat one side of the dough with oil and place oil-side down on one side of the hot grill. We cook for a few minutes until browned. We spread some more oil on the top and sprinkle with salt. We turn with tongs, still keeping the pizzas on just one side of the grill. We add a little more oil and the toppings of the sauce, cheese, zucchini, and pepperoni. On the unused (other) side of the grill, we now turn off the heat and then move the pizzas to this cooler part of the grill. We want to melt the cheese and finish cooking the pizzas through.
Ingredients
- 1 batch pizza dough (store-bought or homemade, cold)
- all-purpose flour
- 1 cup tomato sauce (warmed)
- roasted zucchini (warmed)
- ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
- coarse salt
- 6 oz mozzarella (freshly grated)
- pepperoni
Instructions
What's a kid job?
A Kid job is a step kids can help with, with a grown-up nearby, not one they do on their own. Every kid is different, so go by what your child can do rather than by age. Roughly:
- Little ones (about 2 to 4) can stir, pour in ingredients a grown-up has measured, tear lettuce, wash vegetables and sprinkle toppings.
- Older kids (about 5 to 8) can also measure and level, crack eggs, whisk, roll and cut out dough, and put things together.
- Bigger kids can read the recipe aloud, keep track of the timer, and take on more of the cooking as they're ready.
Steps with a knife, microplane, skewers, stove, oven, grill or hot oil, or with raw meat, poultry or seafood, are marked Grown-up. Kids can still watch those, from a safe distance.
Heat the gas grill to medium-high.
Kid job
Divide the dough into 4 and stretch each into a thin crust, adding flour so it’s not sticky. Set them on a wax-paper-lined plate. Cold dough sticks to the grill less.
Warm the sauce and zucchini in the microwave.
Set the oil, a pastry brush, salt, sauce, cheese, zucchini and pepperoni on a platter, and take it and the dough out to the grill.
Grown-up
Brush one side of each crust with oil and lay it oil-side down on one side of the grill. Cook a few minutes, until browned. Brush the top with oil, sprinkle with salt, and flip with tongs, keeping them on that side.
Grown-up
Brush with a little more oil and add the sauce, cheese, zucchini and pepperoni. Turn off the burner on the empty side and move the pizzas there to melt the cheese and finish cooking.