The cooking club I joined recently has pizza as this month’s challenge. I decided that I’d share how we make pizza at home. Nothing fancy, nothing special and sadly, nothing orgasmic but it’s pizza and what’s not to love about pizza?
Years ago I went to a cookware party. I KNOW, I can hear you groaning from all the way at your house. I did the same thing when my friend Julie said, “Oh Maureen, I need another bum on the seat, you don’t need to buy ANYTHING, I promise, please say you’ll come?”
My friend Julie has her photo in the dictionary under “hell on wheels” and nobody would say no to her. She would share her last cent with you, would dig in your garden for hours just because you needed a hand and would drink the last beer in the fridge with wild abandon. Everyone needs a Julie in their life.
So I went. The name of the company is Chef’s Toolbox and it had just started selling its wares in Australia. They’ve since gone on to sell in New Zealand and in the US too. This is NOT a sponsored post so don’t leave now. I’m really heading to something good.
Their range of cookware and bakeware and utensils are all sold through a party plan and they do that so people can see how the cookware works. All the parties are about cooking and eating and the most requested dish is the stove top pizza. I was definitely NOT going to buy anything at this party. I didn’t need a thing in my kitchen.
The demonstrator or whatever the consultants are called put the pan in front of us, dumped in self raising and plain flour, a teaspoon of honey, a pinch of salt, a heaping teaspoon of yeast and a cup of warm water and started mixing. I thought she was nuts.
The dough came together and then she patted it out with her fingers, spread the pizza sauce over it, added the cheese and the toppings and put it on the stove. It couldn’t have taken 5 minutes.
She cooked it on medium heat for 5 minutes with the vents closed and then opened the vents and cooked for 20 minutes while she went on to make jam doughnuts.
In 20 minutes she opened the cover and BAM it was pizza.
I bought the pan. In fact, I bought two of them and a bunch of other stuff. It’s been more than 5 years and my pans still look brand new and are still non-stick. They aren’t cheap but good knives and cookware are a wise investment. These pans work equally well on my stove top or my induction cooktop that I used today.
I’ve changed the recipe and the method just a bit but the original recipe works just fine. I like my pizzas with the cheese golden brown so before I start mixing the dough I put the pizza stone in the oven and turn it on to 230C. I also add some olive oil to the dough recipe.
Once I open the vents, I cook the pizza on low for 10 minutes until the crust is nicely risen and done, then I use a spatula and the pizza slides right out onto the pizza stone. 5 minutes in the hot oven and the cheese is golden and bubbly.
If you’ve got any kind of a saute pan with a cover, this pizza will work for you. We have two pans and two pizza stones so pizza is ready in under 30 minutes from start to finish and not much to clean up.
I certainly won’t win this month’s cooking club challenge with this one but everyone needs an easy pizza recipe.
- 1 cup self-raising flour
- 1 cup plain flour
- Big pinch of salt
- 1 rounded teaspoon of dried yeast
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 cup lukewarm water
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- ⅓ cup pizza sauce (or as much as you like)
- Any pizza topping ingredients that you like
- In a non-stick pan with a cover, combine all dough ingredients and mix well.
- Once combined, wet fingers with olive oil and press dough evenly across the bottom of the pan.
- Add ⅓ cup (or however much you like) of pizza sauce over the base, right up to the edges.
- Sprinkle with shredded mozarella cheese or sliced bocconcini cheese
- Top with anything you like.
- Cook on medium heat with the pan's vent closed for 5 minutes
- Open pan's vent and cook for an additional 20 minutes
- or
- Cook with vent open for 10 minutes and then transfer to a hot oven with pizza stone for 5 - 10 minutes until golden brown.
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Easy or not, it looks like a delicious pizza!
Thanks! You always find the kindest things to say.
Now this is what I am calling a really creative pizza! I say you rocked this pizza challenge…looks absolutely fantastic!
This is what I’d call utilitarian pizza 🙂 The others came up with clever stuff. lol
It has really never occurred to me to try making pizza on a stove top. This looks and sounds like a brilliant concept though, and your pizza is gorgeous!
I’d much prefer a pizza made in an outside wood-fired pizza oven but that can take hours to crank up properly. Sometimes you just want pizza in your mouth. 🙂
This looks too easy Maureen! And I think you’d beat any pizza delivery place if you had that on the table in 30 minutes. Thanks for sharing the recipe! 😀
absolutely! I made this for the cooking club post and John said, “no anchovies??” I told him they didn’t photograph well. 🙂
This pizza looks fantastic, Maureen! I must try your dough recipe!
Like I said, it’s not gourmet, but it does get pizza on our table in 30 minutes 🙂
Okay, I think I would be sold, too. That looks like a really good pan. And the pizza looks amazing! I love your choice of toppings – delicious and colorful. I hope you’ll drop by and share this with BYOB-#BakeYourOwnBread this month (http://www.girlichef.com/2012/07/byob-bake-your-own-bread-july-12-some.html), Maureen – it’d be a delightful addition to our bread basket!! 🙂
I’ve never heard of making pizza on the stove top before, but I really love it!
I thought it was pretty wacky the first time I saw it 🙂
Great looking pizza, it’d never occurred to me you could make pizza on the stove top. I agree good knives and pans are essential and if you buy right the initial cost is well worth the years of use you get from them. GG
I think your pizza looks scrumptious Maureen. What time is dinner? Factor in my flight will you – lol!
Sooo Cool!, I make pan & bread all the time, but never thought of this. I am so going to make pizza this way on an open fire in the middle of the Maine wilderness someday soon and tweet you a picture!
I meant pan & grilled bread 🙂
I bet that flipped over piece is losing its toppings. Pass it my way!
I’ve not yet made a stove top pizza, though it’s been on my to-do list for years. You have an interesting twist, with mixing the dough right in the pan. Plus using self-rising flour is a real time saver (I actually do keep this in my kitchen, but the White Lily brand which is lower protein than AP, so it’s great for biscuits – I’m not sure if it would be appropriate for pizza). Fun recipe, fun post – thank you!
…you realize it took me like 5 freaking hours to make that damn pizza dough. You win by sheer brain power! I TOTALLY need one of these pans, holy crap!
I LOVED your dessert pizza!!
Easy recipes is a must! You should win just on the basis of convenience! No, but seriously, this is awesome. I’m bookmarking it so I can make it during the busy work week!
What a cool pan and a great idea. better than heating up the oven for sure.
I wonder how it would be if I crisped the top in a covered grill? I’ll try it next time!
Hi Maureen! Awesome job!! That looks like one delicious pizza. I may have to look for those pans, but in the mean time, I’ll be trying this in my trusty cast iron skillet! Hope you are having a wonderful week!
PS – Can I come to Australia for a cooking and food photography workshop with you? 😉
PPS – Toffee pieces are sold in the baking aisles here in the US, but crushed toffee bars would do the trick!
I might make some toffee and crush it myself 🙂
Any non-stick pan with a lid works with this pizza. I just happened to learn about this recipe from the people who sold the pan.
What a great idea! I love pizza and I have to try this method! Must be delicious!
It certainly is fast and I imagine with the great toppings you’ve added, very tasty. Whatever works for you. 🙂
If you can make a pizza using pita bread, french baguettes or bagels, why not a quick bread/biscuit dough in what resembles a cast iron pan/dutch oven? Heck, I’m guessing you could take your pan and do it on a campfire.
Utilitarian, clever, it doesn’t matter what you call it. It looks delicious!
With apologies to America for mangling their lyrics:
I never believed in things that I couldn’t see
I said if I can’t feel it then how can it be
No, no magic could happen to me
And then I saw your pizza……..
I couldn’t believe it, you took my stomach
I couldn’t retrieve it, said to myself
What’s it all about……
You can do magic
You can have anything that you desire
Magic, and you know
You’re the one who can put out the fire …..
Unbelivable.
LOL you’re too funny 🙂
I heard about making pizza on the stove-top but haven’t yet tried this. I’m definitely going to try this soon. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Brilliant. I have never heard of such a pizza, but it makes perfect sense to me looking at your photos – and delicious. When I see new ways of doing things, like this, I always wonder why I didn’t think of that myself? Brilliant!
🙂
V
Sadly, I didn’t dream it up. It works with any non-stick pan with a lid.
lovely ! never tried pizza on a stove-top;
You should give it a try 🙂
I’ve been invited to many party-plan events and as I’m leaving I always tell my husband, ‘Don’t worry, I won’t buy anything’. And then when I’m there I get sucked in and place the biggest order of the night. Too much champagne probably. Glad you bought some great pizza cookware. That looks like an amazing pizza and I love how the dough is made so very quickly xx
This is the Pizza we all Need in our life…
Gorgeous…. I have a pan with lid n yes Pizza is on Menu tmrw!!!
LOVE IT!!!
You have just made my day Maureen. Truely. Now that I don’t have an oven, I can still make pizza. YES (I am super excited about this). All I have been craving is pizza for the last week. Now I can make it on my gas cooker.
Thanks xx
You’re right, Liz!! You can have pizza at home!
This is such a brilliant idea – fast easy and taste sensation! 😀
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Wow this is a very interesting and creative way to make pizzas! I’ve always been scared of making pizzas because everyone seems to think making the base is very difficult. You make it look so easy! 😀
it IS easy 🙂
I usually make pizza for dinner on Sunday nights but I have been guilty of forgetting to get the dough going in time. I will most definitely be giving this one a go this weekend. I love that you don’t even have to think of it until half an hour before dinner time!
I know… and most of us have pizza ingredients sitting in the pantry. 🙂
who needs pizza delivery with something as yum as this?! 🙂
I like pizza,jst like this,………..
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That is pretty spiffy! I have never cooked a pizza on top of the stove like that, but hey, why not?! I like how quickly it comes together for pizza any night of the week. 🙂
What a cool pan and what a fantastic looking pizza!!! I’ve never seen a pan like this but I want one! The pizza looks perfectly cooked, like it was cooked in one of those professional pizza ovens! What a great find even though you had to attend one “those” parties to find it. 🙂 I agree – everyone needs a Julie in their lives!
That is like the coolest pan ever. I want one but I don’t think I really want one. I just want the delicious-looking pizza in the photo, I think.
Looks great!
Ilan
Maureen, this looks fantastic….would intimidate me some, but looks worth it! Great job!!!
NOTHING intimidates you, my dear Jessica 🙂 Not even pizza on the stove top, I’m sure. You’re an amazing cook!
What a brilliant idea!! I never knew you could make pizza without a stove.
i am one that needs an easy pizza recipe! Wow! Why have i never heard of this before. Stovetop pizza? I need this now! leave it to you to introduce me to something new!
I am not so sure, Maureen, but my men do believe that pizza is orgasmic indeed! 🙂 Great recipe, although I don’t have any non-stick pan in my house. I should, probably, meet your friend Julie, she may fix me up with some! 🙂
What a fantastic idea – deep pan pizza… yum. Now I need to find a pot I can do this in:)
Now this is one great idea: pizza on the stove! I love it; it just seems so much easier to be able to watch the pizza instead of peeking constantly in a hot oven! Looks and sounds delish too!
Okay now you have made me want to make this right now even though It is still early morning! Just looks beyond delicious! As you can tell I really like pizza.
Dear Maureen, This does look good and is a nice idea for the warm weather. Blessings dearest. Catherine xo
Genius. And just so you know I have something similar in my cookbook. But I swear I thought of it before I saw this! Speaking of cookbook. I thought you might be the perfect tester for my “dog’s eye” pie. Let me know. GREG
Seriously?? I have NEVER heard of a cook top pizza before. This is mind blowing. I am not sure I have the kind of pan you have here, but I do have a pizza stone. Wondering if that would work…..never mind. Just knowing that a cook top pizza exists makes me happy.
I do like cookware parties though – especially when they come up such great recipes.
Well damn, that looks like a darn impressive pizza considering it was “baked” on top of the stove. I’ve never tried this cooking method before… will need to give it a crack. The results speak for themselves evidently!
What a great idea! It looks delicious Maureen! Do you deliver? 🙂
Wow-what a cool idea! I’ve pretty much given up on making my own pizza crust, because I’ve yet to find a good {thin} gluten-free crust recipe. I’m tempted to try your technique though. Looks delicious to me!
How absolutely amazing! I have a similar pan from Morganware, although it is getting a bit long in the tooth now… I should try this!
I think that pizza looks pretty damn good! I always DREAD cookware parties (or homeware parties, or jewelry parties…) but then I always end up buying something! At least what you bought was useful!
Woah! I looks so easy and sooooo delicious! Thanks for posting such a great recipe!
Wow Maureen, this is such a brilliant idea. Never thought of it.. Don’t I sound silly. If only I could reach into the notebook screen and reach out for a slice of pizza.. Cheers, Jo
This is such a great way to make pizza! I’ll have to try it! Everything looks delicious.
I’m a little obsessed with pizza and this stove top version has to be tried out!! It sounds incredibly delicious!
I love the idea of a stove top pizza. This looks so awesome!
Stove top pizza sounds mighty fine with the heat wave we’ve got going on, but I’m with you on the golden brown cheese — 5 to 10 minutes of oven time is a sacrifice I’m willing to make… 🙂 Thanks for introducing the wonders of stove top pizza (and the handy kitchenware, too), Maureen!
This is fascinating! I am dying to try this. Great pan and great pizza!
I can’t believe this pizza came together on the stove! It’s absolutely gorgeous! You made a great investment in these pans! : )
Anne, any non-stick pan with a cover will work on this. I mentioned the pan because they’re the people who taught me that it can be done!
So absolutly great idea of make one pizza. Love it! and Love the pics too! So usefull!
Thanks for coming by and leaving a comment. Off to check you out! (in the nicest possible way)
Wow I never knew you could make pizza like this! It looks sooo good 🙂
Hi Kristi, lovely to meet you. Thanks for coming by and I’m off to return the favor!
I love making pizza and love your stove top version. No more waiting for the dough to rise. Dinner in under 30 minutes! Hooray!
What a fun way to make pizza! Looks great to me!
Love this! Pizza is always welcome in my house – especially such a quick recipe!
I wouldn’t call this gourmet or even orgasmic pizza but it’s PERFECT on a busy day. 🙂
I missed this post during my vacation. I’ve never heard of stove top pizza! Wow that’s something new to me!!! You are absolutely right – everyone needs one easy pizza recipe that still tastes much better than regular pizza places. Looks delicious!!
How cool is that?! Looks delicious!
I thought I’d seen all the different variations of pizza but this a new pizza on the stove. It looks delicious and sounds so easy to make I’ll have to try this out.
Barbara, on those days when it’s all too hard – I even mix the pizza in the non-stick pan. (I know, non-stick=bad but there it is) 🙂
Pizza !! It’s one of my favorite food. And seems to be easier to make this than some other kinds of pizza. But it looks very delicious.