Tom and I recently discovered cooking pizza's on our grill. We just received a Weber Q200 (Gas grill) as a wedding gift and it's the perfect grill for us. Easy to use, cleaning is simple and also we can easily pack it up in our car and use it on a camping trip or whenever we go over to a friends house!
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Things you will need:
1. A grill, preferably a gas grill.
2. Terracotta Saucer (Bottom of the pot)
3. Good spatula, that is lightly coated with olive oil.
You can either use whole wheat or regular flour, whatever you prefer.
1tsp or 1/2 packet active dry yeast
4 cups all-purpose flour
1tsp kosher salt
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling.
* For those who want to do this a quicker way, go to your local grocery stores frozen section or bakery and pick up some dough.
* Before you start making the dough, go outside and crank up that grill all the way and place the terracotta stone inside.
Step 1.
Pour 1 1/2 cups of warm water into a bowl. Sprinkle yeast over the water and then set aside.
Step 2.
Combine the flour and salt into a mixing bowl (
KitchenAid's are the best for breads, well almost anything!)
Step 3.
With an electric mixer on low speed, drizzle the olive oil until just incorporated.
Step 4.
In the bowl you put aside earlier (Water & Yeast) gently stir the mixture.
Step 5.
Drizzle the mixture into the flour until dough forms a ball (about 10 minutes our dough balls started to form)
Step 6.
Drizzle a little olive oil into a clean bowl. Toss the ball of down in the bowl and turn over to coat it in oil.
Step 7.
Cover the bowl with a moist kitchen (clean) towel and set in a warm area for 1-2 hours. Or you can cover with plastic wrap and store in the fridge up to two days.
Step 8.
On a clean cutting board, sprinkle a little bit of flour and place dough on there. Then you can start working the dough out into your pizza shape. When cooking the dough on the grill, it is best to have a thin crust, but if you prefer a thicker crust go for it, but expect to cook 1-3 minutes longer than usual.
Step 9.
TOPPINGS: Whatever your little heart desires, have fun with it! But few tips: make sure you use 1-2tbsp of sauce on your pizza, you don't want a soggy pizza, GROSS! And let your toppings breathe a little, don't do too much stacking on top of each other, otherwise your cheeses and toppings can't cook and it won't taste as good.
Step 10.
Take your board outside with your spatula and gently place on the terracotta saucer (Bottom of saucer place upwards.. deep dish doesn't work as well).
Step 11.
Cook 8-10 minutes. Take off grill, cut and serve!
This is so much fun to cook and so easy.
Invite some friends over soon and have a Pizza night where everyone creates their own pizza and it's even a fun event for families!
FEW PICS FROM THE KITCHEN TO THE GRILL!
Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty!
The turkey burger delight, Tom's specialty.
I myself, went simple. Alfredo with tomato,onion and pepperoni.
Oh crap, I forgot the olive oil.. rewind.. fix the problemo!
Tom the dough boy, getting the pizza's ready.
Not going to lie, that classico sauce is very good on the pizza's.
Beautiful thing to see, no boo-boo's.
Pizza # 2 or 3 can't remember!
(Pictures taken by our awesome Cannon G11)
Peeked out the window to find my sweet baby Wisco sitting in the chair, a good laugh for me and Tom. He got a few bites of crust. Every time we went back inside we would catch him in one of the chairs waiting again, so cute.
