Homemade Pizza Recipes Tasty

The best homemade pizza recipe made with homemade crust, quick tomato sauce, and just the right amount of cheese. Plus, many tips for making the prefect pizza!

The world is divided into three main kinds of pizza lovers. Some like it thin and crispy, while others like it thick and chewy. And then there’s me, the third kind, the kind who loves all pizza. Especially with extra cheese whenever possible. My favorite is always margherita pizza.

As a starting guide for pizza, I’m sharing my most basic recipe. Everyone who tastes it loves it because it’s almost impossible not to.

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The crust. My basic dough recipe is not too thick nor too thin, and it’s both chewy and crispy on the edges. You can read my full post with more tips here.

Tomato sauce. For a quick sauce, I use canned tomatoes instead of fresh to shorten the cooking time, and it turns out just perfect.

Cheese. I like the combination of mozzarella and Parmesan, the latter of which adds great saltiness and flavor. However, you can use only mozzarella if you prefer, either shredded (my preference) or as thin discs.

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Toppings. You can add your favorite toppings to this pizza, but not too much, including extra cheese, because it can make the crust soggy.

Make sure you preheat your oven. For at least 30 minutes. The baking stone has to be really, really hot to be effective.

Pizza requires a very high temperature for baking, and a baking stone helps to maintain that heat. It also makes for a crisper crust. After testing both with and without a baking stone, I much prefer the results when using a stone, so if pizza is your thing, I suggest investing in one. If you don’t have one just yet, you can use an upturned baking sheet instead.

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If you’re looking to buy a pizza stone, I recommend this one. Its square shape gives more room than a round one, making it perfect for when you want to bake a few small pizzas at once.

Perfectly shaping a pizza is tricky for beginners and takes a few tries before it becomes easy. You don’t even want to know how my first ever pizza looked – more of an artistic polygon than anything. I recommend using your fingertips to shape the dough, and to avoid using a rolling pin, which ruins the airy texture and makes the dough tough. If the dough isn’t stretching well, let it rest for a few minutes, then try again.

My first pizza didn’t look or taste great, either, to say the least. It was quite inedible, though I still ate the whole thing. If you’re not thrilled with how your pizza turned out, here’s what you can do:

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I use the whole can of tomatoes to make the sauce, but you won't need all of it for your pizza. Leftovers can be frozen in an airtight container for 2-3 months and used to make more pizzas or as a marinara sauce for pasta. This recipe makes one very large pizza or two medium pizzas.I love this Easy Homemade Pizza Recipe! I have been perfecting this recipe for years. It is quick to put together and so versatile. I’ll give you lots of tips, tricks, and ideas to get the best homemade pizza to ever come out of your wimpy, not-wood-fired oven!

Yesterday my 18-month-old son Edison was snuggling with me after waking from his nap. He saw a large freckle I have on my arm. Reached out his finger to touch it. Then dove in and tried to take a bite out of it.

Have you guys heard of that Japanese game show where they lock people in a room and whoever finds the piece of furniture made of chocolate first, wins? For real. Contestants have to go around biting chairs and door handles.

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I’m sure they’d never let toddlers onto the show, but if they did I’d be willing to bet a lot of money that Edison would destroy all contenders. I have the bite marks to prove it!! Little monster!

Are you a pizza person? (Is there a person who is not a pizza person?) We do pizza every Friday at our house! We usually make it right here at home. (not always. Sometimes you just need to order pizza, amiright?) I’ve been making homemade pizza for years and years, and have lots of tips and tricks to share.

Today’s post is part of a 3-part series! First I shared my recipe for Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce. Then I posted about Pizza Dough and everything you need to know to get the perfect crust. Today we are putting it all together to make the best homemade pizza! Way more tasty than eating (chocolate?) freckles.

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Here are the basics. I go into LOTS of detail in the post below, (and in my two sister posts, Pizza Sauce and Pizza Dough), so keep reading for more info.

The best part about pizza is that it is actually pretty quick if you have everything ready to go. I’m going to share my exact method for baking pizza that I have been using for about 10 years now. It’s tried and tested, and results in delicious, crispy-edged, perfectly cheesy pizza every time.

The first thing you must do is preheat your oven up as high as it will go. It takes longer than you think to heat your oven up all the way! You want to give your oven at least 30 minutes to preheat. If you have a pizza stone, make sure it’s inside the preheating oven.

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The answer is always going to be: as hot as your little oven can go. For nice ovens, this can be up to 550 degrees F. For kinda crappy ovens, they are not going above 475 F. Pizza is traditionally cooked in 900 or 1, 000 degree ovens. We can’t get our ovens at home quite that hot, but we want to get as close as we can. Figure out what your oven can do and crank up the heat.

Have towels ready to go by your smoke detector! If you have any food particle that drops to the oven floor (oil, sauce, cheese), it will start smoking and set off your alarm right away.

Start out with about 12-16 ounces of dough. I worked really hard to perfect my Pizza Dough recipe and highly recommend it! But any pizza dough, homemade or store bought, will work for this recipe.

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Prepare your work surface. I know most people dust the counter with flour, but I find that you risk ending up with a tougher dough this way. Too much flour = tough crust. (If your dough is very sticky, using flour is going to be just fine).

Place your ball of dough in the center of your work surface and use your hands to press it down, starting from the center. Keep gently patting out the dough, moving the dough outward from the center. I like to leave a pretty healthy crust on the edges of my dough.

Continue patting and stretching the dough gently with your hands until it is about 12 inches across. Of course you can use a rolling pin if you want! (Use your hands to lift up the edges of the pizza when you are done to get more a lip for the crust.)

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At this point, transfer the dough to a square of parchment paper. I highly recommend using parchment paper because it’s SO much easier transferring your pizza into the oven.

Stretch and arrange the dough on the parchment paper. The dough shrinks a bit when you pick it up to transfer, just gently stretch it out again.

Drizzle a bit of olive oil over the top of your dough. Use your hands or a pastry brush to rub the oil all over the top of the dough, especially the edges of the crust. This layer of oil helps the toppings stay separate from the dough, helping it cook more evenly. It also tastes delicious, especially on your crust, hello.

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A pizza peel is that wooden board with a handle that you see restaurants using to transfer pizzas in and out of the oven. I don’t have one, because a flat baking sheet works just as well, and takes up less space in my kitchen. But I’m sure you will feel super fancy using a special peel?? You do you. You’re going to need something flat for this next step:

Once the oven is up to temperature, we are going to do a 1 to 2 minute par bake. This step is technically not necessary, but I never skip it. It guarantees a thoroughly cooked crust. Nobody wants a doughy pizza, yuck.

The parchment paper onto your pizza stone, pizza pan, or baking sheet. (I always just pull on the paper to move it onto the stone). Transfer to your stone or pan, shut the oven door and bake for 1-2 minutes, until it is slightly puffed.

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Use your pizza peel or flat baking sheet to remove the pizza (still on the parchment paper) from the oven.

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