Pepperoni Garlic Pizza
This tasty pizza has a crisp edged crust with a great chew and it's topped with garlic goodness that will appeal to all the garlic lovers in your life.
Equipment
- perforated pizza pan
- pizza steel or baking stone
- pastry brush
- Pizza Cutter
Ingredients
- 1 ball refrigerated pizza dough or home made dough
For the garlic butter:
- 1 stick salted butter, softened
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ⅛ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
- 1½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp Italian seasoning
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- ¼ tsp paprika
Toppings:
- 6-8 oz Mozzarella cheese, grated
- 30 slices pepperoni
- 2 tbsp parmesan cheese, grated
Instructions
- Place a pizza steel or baking stone in the oven on the middle rack. Preheat oven to 475℉. Allow oven to preheat for 45 minutes.
- While the oven is preheating, remove dough from the refrigerator.
- Place ball of dough onto perforated pizza pan and flatten it out. Grab the edges of the dough and gently stretch and form the dough into a 12-14 inch circle leaving the outer edge of the dough thicker than the center.
- In a small bowl combine softened butter with, minced garlic, Parmesan cheese, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, pepper and paprika.
- Brush the dough with a thin layer of garlic butter, top with a layer of grated mozzarella cheese and slices of pepperoni.
- Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese.
- Bake the pizza in the oven for 5 minutes.
- Lift up the edge of the pizza and gently slide it from the pizza pan onto the pizza steel.
- Bake pizza for another 5-6 minutes until the underside of the pizza is golden brown.
- Turn oven temperature to broil and toast pizza for 2-4 minutes or until the pizza crust edges start to burn in spots ever so slightly and blisters along the edges.
- Remove pizza from the oven using a pizza peel. Cut pizza into slices using a pizza cutter to serve.