Grilled Pizza!

[Georynn]

Grilled Pizza! OK Maki, this one is for you...

OK, so After my rant about being really picky about my grill, and how I have it modified and tweaked in the George Foreman grill thread, I figured what the hey... Share your recipes on grilled pizza...

My recipe:

First the crust must be considered, its probably the most important part... lots of room for opinions on this, so I will only state what I do without .
I use a very plain-jane recipe for white bread. Pre-proofed and seasoned with rough ground rosemary leaves and dry basil. But you can use any bread dough, even the stuff for bread machines for this one. (one friend suggested the frozen bread dough they sell at Kroger)
Stretch it out till you get maybe a 1/4 in or less(doesn't have to be exact or consistent) roundish disk. The reason I say round is it takes up all the space on my pizza stone more efficiently, YMMV. Let it become room temp(important) and let it "relax" and rise just a touch, say 30 minutes, before you put it on the grill.

While the dough is rising and resting, fire up the charcoal chimney (or if you have a gas grill, clean it and plant your smoking agent) and prepare your pizza stone. I personally use some flour and corn meal dusted across the surface to prevent adhesion by the pizza dough.

Sauce...
You can go with a simple Extra virgin Olive Oil with some herbs, or go with a traditional pizza sauce. This is pretty important consideration too, since the sauce has to get hot enough to melt the cheese, and cook the toppings. In my recipe I'm going pretty straight forward, PIZZA QUICK! Yeah, I know its a short cut, but its cheap, easy and tasty. no need to re-invent the wheel. Apply a small amount to the center of my disk, Spread in a circular motion starting from the center. Less is More! You should be able to still see the dough through the sauce. If you use too much, the crust will burn before the cheese melts.

Toppings, Your call... for this exercise I'll use the classic... Pepperoni.
Now, I'm a HUGE fan of crispy cooked pepperoni on a pizza, just not possible on the grill... Sorry (but you can always slide it under the broiler)

Cheese. plain, simple mozzarella, and a little bit of shredded parmigiana. The finer it is shredded the faster it will melt. Use just enough to cover, but you still want to see the toppings and some sauce...

Your charcoal should be roaring by now. If you have a standard kettle style grill, place your charcoal on the grill for 5 minutes before the pizza stone. Grab your moistened smoking chips and place them where they will smoke, without robbing air from the hot coals. Important thing to consider....
Place your pizza stone on the grill after the smoking agent has started to smoke. My Personal favorite is mesquite. Some like hickory better.
You should have a thermometer, but if you don't here's a way to tell if your pizza stone is ready... toss a little corn meal on it, you should smell it searing...
Water shouldn't dance across it, but it should be pretty hot
450 degrees is what I shoot for with steak. 400-500 is comfortable for pizza with this recipe.

Toss your pizza on it and close the lid, when the cheese in the middle (or the thickest part if you made yours a bit abnormal) is melted, its done...

Ive done this with thawed frozen pizza too... its not bad, definitely better that when cooked in an oven, but not as good as going completely home made... And you might make a few inedible prototypes before your first success, but man, its good...

[MakiSupaStar]

THIS IS PURE WIN. I've never done this AND I have a pizza stone. Awesome.

[steve21]

My dad bought a pizza stone. he makes some of the dankest ****in' pizzas ever with it. And it's all old-school italian style, with classic toppings and everything.

[WickedPissah]

I just use tinfoil, I don't have a special stone or anything.

[CapnSev]

Dutch oven in a fire + pizza = super pizza.

[GeneralElectric]

Originally Posted by WickedPissah

I just use tinfoil, I don't have a special stone or anything.

+1

We're so cool we make our Pizza the manly way.

[Disraeli Gears]

I just order my pizza- none of this cooking nonsense!

[Georynn]

Originally Posted by steve21

My dad bought a pizza stone. he makes some of the dankest ****in' pizzas ever with it. And it's all old-school Italian style, with classic toppings and everything.

That's what I'm talkin' about... sounds great...

Originally Posted by GeneralElectric

+1

We're so cool we make our Pizza the manly way.

Originally Posted by Disraeli Gears

I just order my pizza- none of this cooking nonsense!

But it's not cooking, its grilling...

[Disraeli Gears]

Originally Posted by Georynn

That's what I'm talkin' about... sounds great...





But it's not cooking, its grilling...

You've got me there..

And I'm not going to lie, grilled pizza sounds amazing

[Georynn]

Ok, so tonight was a crappy rainy cold night... but i wanted grilled pizza, and i gotta practice what i preach, so I grabbed some dough I had thawing for bread on thanksgiving. chopped a piece of it off, flattened it out, squirted bbq sauce on it and spread it out, grabbed some leftover grilled chicken from the week-end and threwsome of the bacon cheese on it(see bacon club megathread).
And chucked it on the grill!!!, my wife looked at me expectantly as she ate the rest of the leftover chicken. But i ate the whole dang thing by myself...