Grilled Pizza with Homemade Crust

As we get deeper into the warm summer months on the homestead, no one wants to heat up the house even more by running the oven.  Try out this amazing homemade pizza recipe with an easy, fast-rising dough that will leave your family begging for seconds!

Making the Dough

To start, you'll have to create the dough.  It does take a little bit of rise time, but I just used that time to cut up my veggies and get everything ready.  

Dough Ingredients:

• 1 cup warm water
• 1 pkg. Active dry yeast
• 1/2 T. sugar
• 1 T. olive or vegetable oil
• 1/2 T. salt
• 1 T. garlic powder
• 1 tsp. basil
• 3 to 3 1/2 cups flour (start with 3 cups and add more as needed)

Other Ingredients:

• 2 T. cornmeal 
• 1 T. vegetable oil (for greasing bowl)

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Directions:

• Add yeast and sugar to the warm water and let it sit for a few minutes.
• Add all of the rest of the ingredients except for the flour.
• Mix in flour one cup at at a time using a dough hook.  
• Remove the dough from the bowl and knead for a few minutes.  Dough should be moist but shouldn't stick to your hands.  Add more flour as needed.
• Form dough into a ball.
• Add 1 T. vegetable oil to your bowl.  Place the dough inside and roll the dough ball around until all of it is covered.
• Cover and place in a warm place (sunny is great!) for 30 minutes.
• After 30 minutes, remove the dough from the bowl and form it into a circle.  
• Cover the pan that you'll be cooking the pizza on with cornmeal.  Then, place the dough on the pan, forming it to the pan.
• **Note:  Be sure that the pan you are using to cook the pizza can withstand a grill's fire.  I just used a really old pizza pan that I've had for many years and it worked just fine!  If you're someone who wants to do this often and is looking for a pan that is designed for this, check out this one from Amazon that has handles!

Assembling the Pizza

While the dough is rising, decide on your pizza toppings and start preparing.  Now you really can be quite creative here!  We chose to add the following ingredients to our pizza:

• Red tomato pizza sauce
• Fresh mushrooms
• Chives
• Wild Ramps
• Onions
• Green Peppers
• Pepperoni
• Mozzarella Cheese
• Garlic Powder

It was delicious!  The wild ramps really did something for me....they were such an excellent touch!  You can read all about foraging for wild ramps and our experience with it here.

This pizza is so versatile- try out different combinations like BBQ Chicken, Garlic Ranch with Tomatoes, or maybe even a sauerkraut and bratwurst pizza!  I've seen those before!  I'd love to hear about your favorite toppings in the comments below!

Grilling Time!

I carefully watched our pizza as it cooked, making sure to keep the temperature of the grill around 300 degrees.  Different grills and different pans will cook differently, so you'll need to watch your pizza closely to monitor it's progress.  

Our pizza cooked at around 300 degrees for about 20 minutes.  By that point the crust was a nice golden brown on the bottom and the cheese had melted.  And the smell.....it was heavenly!  D was super excited when he pulled in the driveway after work and this was waiting for him!

We added some freshly picked lettuce fromour garden as a side salad to go with this delicious pizza and gobbled it all up.  My son, who is usually a super picky kid and hates eating (I know, I know....seems like it couldn't be true, but it is possible), ate 2 whole pieces himself!  This was a wonderful treat that the whole family enjoyed.  Plus, if you're brave like I was, you can involve the kids in the preparation.  Letting them knead the dough, press it down, and help cut up vegetables really helps them to be a part of the process and encourages them to want to eat food made at home and from scratch.  

I hope you'll try this one out! What is your go-to hot weather meal?  Share in the comments below!

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