Homemade Pizza in a Cast-Iron Skillet
From Fabio's 30-Minute Italian: Over 100 Fabulous, Quick, and Easy Recipes [1] by Fabio Viviani
Notes
Pizza is pizza and cooking it in a cast-iron skillet ensures even, high heat for a good crust. You can have five or six skillets going at once, all with different pizzas and toppings. The frozen dough sold in the supermarket works well; I always have it on hand. It needs only a little stretching to work, no fancy rolling or spinning.
Ingredients
- 1 pound store-bought pizza dough, thawed
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup tomato sauce
4 ounces fresh mozzarella, torn into pieces
1/4 cup thinly sliced onions
1/4 cup thinly sliced red bell pepper
30 slices pepperoni
2 tablespoons grated Grana Padano cheese
Directions
- Preheat an oven to 400°F.
- Take dough out of the fridge. Let it warm on the counter while you prepare everything else.
- Divide the dough in half and roll out on a floured surface to be a little smaller than your 10- or 12-inch skillet.
- Heat half the oil in the skillet on medium high heat, then place the dough in the skillet. Cook for 1 minute, then flip the dough and add half the sauce, half the mozzarella, and half of the onions, peppers and pepperoni.
- Place in oven and cook for 6-8 minutes, or until cheese has melted and crust is golden brown.
- Remove from skillet, sprinkle half the Grana Padano on top, and cut for serving. Repeat the process using remaining ingredients.
From Fabio's 30-Minute Italian: Over 100 Fabulous, Quick, and Easy Recipes [2] by Fabio Viviani. Copyright © 2017 by the author and reprinted with permission of St. Martin's Press, LLC.
Information
- Category
- Main Dishes, Pizza
- Cuisine
- Italian
- Yield
- Serves 6-8
- Total Time
- 44 minutes, 59 seconds