May 25 2008
Grill Pizza!
No, I’m not suggesting you throw Pizza Hut’s finest onto your Weber.
Last night we made grill pizza for the first time. Here’s how we did it. First, we made a batch of whole wheat pizza dough, using our bread machine. We rolled out the dough into circles - about the size of an individual pizza, slightly larger than pan pizzas from Pizza Hut. My husband made homemade pizza sauce using canned tomato puree, oregano, garlic powder and a couple of teaspoons of olive oil. (He warmed it on the stove for a few minutes.) Then, he and my daughter spread sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese and other toppings onto the pizzas, just as you would for oven-baked pizzas.
We heated our gas grill to about 500 degrees - your grill needs to be at 450 - 500 degrees for the pizzas to cook properly, and it cools down a bit as you cook each pizza. We cooked pizzas two at a time. They were pretty darn good!
For me, the best part about grilling pizza is that we can now enjoy it during the summer months, when even looking at my oven makes me feel like a sunstroke victim. We all ate smiling, as we realized we could feast like this even on August’s warmest evenings.
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