Cast Iron Pizza
This cast iron skillet pizza recipe makes enough for two 12-14 inch pizza's. Made in the cast iron, this pizza has a perfect crust and is always perfectly round.
Equipment
- 12" - 14" cast iron skillet
Ingredients
Pizza Dough
- 1 1/2 cup warm water about 110F
- 1 tbsp active dry yeast
- 1 tbsp honey or maple syrup
- 4 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 cup melted butter can also use olive oil
- 3-4 cups all purpose flour organic, unbleached
Pizza Sauce
- 1 15oz can tomato sauce
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp onion powder
- 1 tbsp Italian seasoning or 1 tsp each basil, parsley, oregano (or any combination of your favorite Mediterranean herbs)
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- black pepper to taste
Toppings
- 1 lb mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 lb ground meat beef, pork, chicken, turkey, sausage
- whatever your heart desires
Instructions
Pizza Dough
- Combine the warm water with honey and active dry yeast. Stir to combine and allow to sit for about five minutes until the mixture is bubbly.
- Stir in melted butter and salt
- Fully incorporate two cups of flour before adding more. Add only enough to make the dough easy to handle (not too sticky). Depending on your climate you may need to add more or less flour.
- Knead for 3-5 minutes or until the dough has formed a smooth ball.
- Allow to rise for one hour. Meanwhile, make the sauce and prepare the toppings.
For the pizza sauce
- Combine all ingredients for the sauce in a small bowl. This will make enough sauce to dress two pizza's with some remaining for dipping if you'd like.
- Brown your meat and drain out any excess grease.
- Prepare any preferred toppings now. We like to use sliced onions, olives, mushrooms, spinach, and bell peppers.
Construct the pizza
- Preheat oven to 425F and grease your cast iron pan with olive oil or butter. (Or you could save the grease from the meat you cooked earlier and use that to grease your pan.)
- Divide the dough in half. You can either make two pizza's at once or freeze the other half to enjoy another day.
- Roll out the dough into a 12-14" circle, depending on how large your cast iron skillet is. I like to roll out the dough slightly larger than my pan to allow about a 1/2" of dough up the side of the pan.
- Gently place the rolled out dough into the prepared skillet, stretching it out as needed to fill the pan.
- Top with sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese, meat and any other veggie toppings you'd like.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until the crust starts to brown slightly.
- Optional, you can broil the pizza for about 2 minutes after it's finished cooking. Watch it closely so it doesn't burn.
- Allow the pizza to cool for a few minutes in the pan. If you'd like you can transfer the pizza to a cutting board before slicing it.