This homemade pizza recipe is perfect for parties! Everyone loves pizza, and your guests can customize their toppings to suit their personal tastes.
Over the years, I’ve shared a number of homemade pizza recipes on the blog (see here, here, and here), but never one from start to finish – crust & sauce included. In reality, though, we make pizza from scratch fairly often around here. Why? It’s one of the few meals we eat where we get to spend time in the kitchen together. I do most of the cooking in our house, but when pizza night rolls around, both of us pitch in.
I also love to make pizza when I entertain because, well, everyone loves pizza, and it’s customizable! It’s easy to make different toppings to suit different tastes. You can even get your guests involved in topping their own personal pizzas, so everyone has a hand in the final meal. When Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove asked us to create a recipe that celebrates their philosophy of living deliciously, I thought immediately of homemade pizza and my shared time in the kitchen with Jack, friends, and family.
Supreme Vegetarian Pizza (so Easy!)
Taking time out of our busy days to put down our phones and celebrate every glorious flavor, guest, and memory makes me feel like we are truly living deliciously. For me, this also means eating seasonally. I visit local farmers markets to get inspiration for what to cook and what to eat, and in warm weather, Jack and I grow our own herbs on our back deck. How does eating seasonally relate to homemade pizza? Well, while cheese and sausage are the most popular pizza toppings where we live, I embrace summer’s plethora of beautiful vegetables (and even fruits!) to create out-of-the-box fresh combinations. And because we have so many gorgeous herbs right outside our door, I generously top my pizzas with fresh basil, mint, and homemade pesto to add a ton of fresh, delicious flavor.
And speaking of Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove, their appliances couldn’t be more useful for pizza-making. My Sub-Zero refrigerator keeps delicate produce wonderfully fresh. Our Wolf rangetop is perfect for preparing one of my favorite summer pizza toppings: roasted red peppers! I like to char them right over the burner flame. And on the pizza stone setting of my Wolf oven, pizza crust becomes golden and crisp around the edges. Best of all, our Cove dishwasher is roomy enough to wash all the dishes left from preparing and enjoying a meal with guests, so cleanup is a breeze!
Of course, there are nights when we pick up pizza dough from the store. But the best pizza nights are the ones when we make the dough ourselves – especially because it means that we work together in the kitchen. Jack (our resident dough man) will mix up the homemade pizza dough while I prep the toppings and the sauce. When we sit down to eat, it’s so fun to enjoy a meal we made together!
The Best Homemade Supreme Pizza Recipe
Our homemade pizza dough recipe uses a mix of white whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour. I like this combination because it adds some whole grain power to the crust without giving it the dense texture and dark flavor of an all-whole wheat dough. Along with the two flours, we use yeast, a little maple syrup, warm water, salt, and olive oil to make a crust that’s crisp on the outside, soft in the middle, and perfectly golden brown.
As I said above, I live deliciously by eating with the seasons. Homemade pizza is something we enjoy together all year round, but right now, we have an abundance of herbs growing outside our back door. Greenhouse cherry tomatoes are popping up at the farmers markets, too. With these fresh, seasonal ingredients as a starting point, I created three topping combinations:
To support our seasonal toppings, we needed a flavorful sauce. In this homemade pizza recipe, I use pesto as the base of the red pepper pizza, while I simply brush the crust of the peach pizza with olive oil. For a good margherita pizza, though, red sauce is a must.
Favorite Veggie Pizza {the Best!}
Our homemade pizza sauce recipe uses simple ingredients: San Marzano tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, salt, red pepper flakes, and a pinch of dried oregano. Pulse them together in the food processor, and you’re ready to spread your sauce on your dough! I opt not to cook the sauce before baking so that the freshness of the sweet tomatoes and garlic can really shine. The flavors mellow and meld just the right amount while the pizza is in the oven, so no stovetop time is necessary!
With a good whole grain crust and lots of veggie toppings, homemade pizza is a filling meal on its own. If we want something on the side, though, my first choice is always a seasonal salad. A simple green salad or arugula salad is an easy, fresh option, but if I’m not tossing greens together, I’ll often use leftover pizza toppings to make a fun, flavorful side salad. Here are some of my favorite salads that make use of toppings that you may have leftover from this homemade pizza recipe:
We love to make this homemade pizza recipe together - one person makes the dough while the other preps the toppings. It's also great for entertaining because guests can customize their final meals.
Easy & Quick Homemade Pizza Recipe
We love to eat, travel, cook, and eat some more! We create & photograph vegetarian recipes from our home in Chicago, while our shiba pups eat the kale stems that fall on the kitchen floor.My favourite pizza toppings for homemade pizza! From everyone’s favourite Pepperoni to Italian classics like Margherita and Capricciosa, fully loaded BBQ Meatlovers’ and Supreme, the hardest part about this is deciding which pizza to make tonight.
If this feels like a Domino’s menu for homemade pizza – GOOD! That’s what I’m going for – and this list will continue to grow with time as I add more pizzas.
Hot on the heels of pepperoni is Supreme, THE pizza I grew up with. The one rule I have about supreme? It’s gotta have at least TWO meats. Otherwise, it’s just another pizza….😉
Best Vegan Pizza Recipe
If you think you don’t like Hawaiian pizza, that’s because you haven’t tried homemade! I used to be one of “those people”…😂
You don’t even need to use a fancy BBQ sauce here. Any generic store bought BBQ sauce is fine – this one is all about the toppings!
Huge Aussie favourite, a pizza topped with garlic prawns AND finished with a drizzle of garlic butter. Heaven in the form of a pizza!
Healthier Pizza Toppings
Though the recipe for these is not listed below, here are some more pizza topping ideas that we love. I will be working my way through them and adding photos and recipes over the coming months!
Garlic bread – in pizza form! Get the recipe for Garlic Cheese Pizza here – I created a standalone recipe for it, including a recipe video.
Carb on carb perfection. The first pizza I request at every family pizza night! The pops of rosemary flavour in this is just divine.
Pizza Topping Ideas
Here are our top 12 favourite pizza toppings! This list will continue to grow, at which point I'll start creating separate recipes for each pizza. For now, enjoy this handy 12-in-1 list! Also see – homemade pizza dough (dough and cooking) and pizza sauce recipe.
1. Cheese – best to freshly grate cheese for pizza, it melts better and you get better coverage (store bought is usually thicker batons so you need more for same coverage = weighs down pizza. Also covered in anti caking agent which affects melting quality)
2. Sausage – Raw sausage balls so little, will cook at the high oven temps. If you’re concerned, you can just “crumble” raw sausage all over the pizza instead, but pizza shops do little balls. Better to cook sausage on pizza because the sausage drips flavour!
Easy Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe
I believe you can make great food with everyday ingredients even if you’re short on time and cost conscious. You just need to cook clever and get creative!Tired of the same old pizza toppings? These fresh, flavorful pizza topping ideas are here to help. Mix and match them to create a combination you love!
It’s pizza night! Jack is already prepping the dough, and later, I’ll be in charge of the toppings. When it comes to pizza toppings, I certainly have a few favorites (I’ll always use fresh basil, roasted tomatoes, and artichoke hearts if I have them on hand), but what I love most is coming up with new pizza topping ideas that I haven’t tried before. Butternut squash and sage? Yes, please. Fennel, mushroom, and tarragon? Delicious! Grilled pineapple and pickled jalapeño? Bring it on.
I’m sharing 25 of my best pizza topping ideas in the post below, along with suggestions on how to put them together. I hope you’ll use them as inspiration for your own homemade pizza nights. They’re all fun, flavorful, and flexible. Pick a few that sound good to you, and mix and match them to create a pizza you love!
Easy Pizza Dough Recipe (step By Step Guide!)
When you make pizza at home,
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