Grilled Pizzas!!

GRILLED PIZZAS!!

The grill, I love the grill. Anything I can grill, I will. Yes, you can even grill pizza. I decided that for our ladies birthday party, we would grill pizzas. I think they all thought that was a weird concept... until they ate it. Everyone loved it!

You can be so creative with this recipe. The topping choices are endless. We love BBQ pulled pork pizza, chicken pesto pizza and breakfast sausage & pepperoni pizzas. I found the dough recipe on the back of the Fleischmans green yeast packets, but I have altered it with the addition of whole wheat flour. It adds nutrition and your family will never know the difference, but they will be impressed with your new grilling skills.

You will need the following items:

Mixer with Dough Hook

Pizza Peel

Pizza Stone

Rolling Pin

Grill!

Ingredients:

Dough:

1 & 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour

1/2 Cup Whole Wheat Flour - I prefer King Arthur brand myself

A Good Splash of Good Quality Olive Oil

2 Tablespoons or So of Sugar

1 Packet of the Green Fleischmans Yeast- made just for pizza dough- for the cooks living around us- it can be purchased at Harris Teeter

2/3 Cups Hot Water- simply turn your tap to the hottest water and use that. Do not boil the water or you will kill the yeast

1/2 Teaspoon Sea Salt

1 Teaspoon Any kind of dry pizza seasoning you like or omit this step

Pizza Sauce:

1 Small Can of Hunts Tomato Sauce

1 Teaspoon Basil

1 Teaspoon Sage

1 Teaspoon Oregano

1/2 Teaspoon Marjoram- now you know where to use that spice

1/2 Teaspoon Garlic Salt

Mix all ingredients together- there is your sauce. Simple but delectable!

Directions:

1. In your Kitchenaid or Mixer of your choice, attach the dough hook- yes you will finally get to use that one!

2. Add 1 Cup of Flour, the olive oil, the yeast- Sprinkle the yeast over top of the flour, Sprinkle the sugar over the yeast- this is what the yeast feeds on to bubble and make that airy pizza dough that you will love.

3. Add the Hot Water

4. Add the Salt and your seasoning if you choose- I add this last because salt will keep the yeast from activating and bubbling.

5. Start the mixer on low and combine until ingredients are not stuck to the side of the mixer.

6. Add the remaining flour- this is where it depends on a lot of factors as to how much flour you will need- usually it ends up to be 1 to 1 1/2 cups of flour

Once all the flour is mixed in and the dough is stuck to your hook, you are ready to take the dough out.

Sprinkle some flour on your counter and knead the dough a few times to make a ball. Place the dough ball back in your mixer bowl and cover. You can skip this step if you really cannot wait. It will rise and make the dough even more fluffy and pillowey.

Sprinkle a bit more flour and start making pizzas. We prefer to make them on the smaller size. I do not try to get the pizzas perfectly round- you want the imperfections of the dough not being round. Yes, for some of us that can be hard.

Place the pizza stone on the grill and get it really hot. We have found that placing your ready to grill pizzas on a wood surface such as a pizza peel works best to get them onto the pizza stone. Place your pizzas on the stone and when the cheese is bubbly and gooey- they are done! Usually takes about 5 minutes. Grilled to perfection. Voila!

For BBQ Pork Pizzas-use the same dough recipe and do the following: make a wonderful BBQ sauce (that will be a later post), use the BBQ sauce as the base, add your favorite smoked pulled pork, then add your favorite cheese.

Chicken Pesto Pizzas- use the same dough recipe and do the following: use your favorite pesto or make one, layer with grilled chicken, then your favorite cheese.

Breakfast Sausage and Turkey Pepperoni Pizza- use the same dough recipe and do the following: use the pizza sauce from the top, use your favorite breakfast sausage links- first cook them and then cut them, arrange your sausage and turkey pepperoni and then add your cheese.