Thursday, May 21, 2015

Stove Top Pizza!

A friend of mine sent me a link on Facebook the other day from the Chef's Tool Box website which had a video for "Skillet Pizza."  Wow!!  It looked easy and the pizza looked great.  I knew I had to give this a try.  So I did a search for "skillet pizza" and "stove top pizza" - never knew there was THAT many recipes!!!  Who knew!!

The website that seemed to have the closest recipe to the one on the video was on the sautepanrecipes.com website (though I did have to make a few minor adjustments).

This pizza is SO easy.  The hardest part (at least, what I found to be) is adjusting the temperature so the bottom of your crust doesn't burn.  Onto the recipe:

Stove Top Pizza

Dough Ingredients

1/2 cup self-rising flour (yes, you really need this!!)
1/2 cup all purpose flour
pinch of salt
1 rounded tsp of dried yeast
1 tsp of honey
2/3 cup of lukewarm water

Measure the two flours and salt into your pan
Add the honey, yeast and water

Mix together and spread the dough over the pan (the dough will seem really thin - don't worry it will rise as it bakes!)


Pizza topping

1/3 cup tomato paste
1 T dried Italian herbs (basil, oregano and parsley)
And whatever other toppings you wish)

Combine the tomato paste and herbs in a small bowl and then spread over the pizza dough with a spatula (ok, I cheated and used store bought pizza sauce - I didn't have any tomato paste!)


Top with your favorite toppings (I used pepperoni, mushrooms and goat cheese - yum!!)



Place the pan over medium heat and cover.
Cook for 5 minutes with any vents closed or covered.
Open up any vents, reduce heat to medium low and cook for an additional 10 to 15 minutes.
Remove pan from heat, using a spatula, lift the pizza onto a board and slice.


Entire Recipe:

Stove Top Pizza

Dough Ingredients

1/2 cup self-rising flour (yes, you really need this!!)
1/2 cup all purpose flour
pinch of salt
1 rounded tsp of dried yeast
1 tsp of honey
2/3 cup of lukewarm water

Measure the two flours and salt into your pan
Add the honey, yeast and water
Mix together and spread the dough over the pan (the dough will seem really thin - don't worry it will rise as it bakes!)

Pizza topping

1/3 cup tomato paste
1 T dried Italian herbs (basil, oregano and parsley)
And whatever other toppings you wish)

Combine the tomato paste and herbs in a small bowl and then spread over the pizza dough with a spatula.
Top with your favorite toppings.
Place the pan over medium heat and cover.
Cook for 5 minutes with any vents closed or covered.
Open up any vents, reduce heat to medium low and cook for an additional 10 to 15 minutes.
Remove pan from heat, using a spatula, lift the pizza onto a board and slice.
Enjoy!!

Verdict

First of all, this is such an easy pizza to make!!   Takes only a few minutes to whip this up.  My husband loved it, so I will probably be making this again.  I did have a few problems - the center part of my dough did burn.  I have a new gas stove so I will have to learn where medium low really is.  I was pleasantly surprised by the pizza - it was pretty good - a lot better than my "usual" pizza I make.  If you like thin crust pizzas, this is the recipe for you.  I don't have a pan with "vents", so I had to make do with what I had.  I will have to figure something better out.  Stand tuned for a "new and improved" version coming soon!


2 comments:

  1. Great Pizza Diane! I've made it several times and it has been delicious. I made a mistake the last time I made it and realized that I had scooped a full cup of each flour into the pan instead of half a cup. I just adjusted the other ingredients and made a very thick crust. To make sure it was cooked through, I took it out of the pan at the end and put it on a pizza stone under the broiler for five extra minutes. That worked like a charm.

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    1. I am so glad you liked it! We have made it several times and love it. And thank you for the tip on put it under the broiler. I might try it was a cup of flour and adjust the ingredients like you did. Thank you for letting me know that you tried the recipe!

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