The Pepperoni Pizza is one of the most ordered pizzas, and although there is only one topping on it, it’s loaded with a good quality cured pepperoni that just adds so much flavor to a pizza. This recipe for the 12-inch pepperoni pizza is loaded with 34 slices of pepperoni on top of an overnight pizza dough sauced with pizza sauce. Plus, we got some dipping sauces that can be served on the side.
Pepperoni Pizza Ingredients
Medium Overnight Pizza Dough, Passata Pizza Sauce, Pepperoni, and Mozzarella Cheese.
Optionally with garlic sauce to brush the crust after the pizza comes out of the oven.
Pizza Dough
For this recipe we use 280 g of the overnight pizza dough. You can portion the dough out to anywhere between 280 g and 454 g for a medium pizza. 280 g gives you a thinner Neapolitan-style pizza, and the upper limit of 1 lb or 454 g gives you the classic Western-style pizza sold in many local shops like Domino’s.
The overnight pizza dough will yield about 1500-1600 g of dough. So you can portion it out for various pizzas, stuffed cheesy bread, twisty bread, garlic fingers, and other pizzeria food items.
You can also buy premade pizza dough and let it thaw and come close to room temp before assembling the pizza. Although I really prefer making my own.
Pizza Sauce
A good pizza sauce, such as the passata pizza sauce that you can add to oregano and extra basil, should you choose, or use other kinds of pizza sauce. If you’re looking for a bit of sweetness, add sugar. A bit of red wine vinegar and/or lemon juice for a zesty pizza sauce. A bit of heat can be added with black pepper. Alter it how you want to get the flavors you want.
Pepperoni
The pepperoni is the only topping added, so a very good quality pepperoni is crucial here for flavor as well as loading the pizza up with pepperoni. Go with a cured pepperoni like Fantino & Mondello. This is a phenomenal pepperoni designed for top-quality pizzas, and they have a few different packages.
Pizzeria Cheese
Saputo’s Mozzarella really is the best cheese to use, and a lot of pizzerias use it too. To elevate the mozzarella cheese even more into a pizzeria cheese blend. Mix a 3:1 blend of Saputo’s Mozzarella cheese and provolone, both shredded, and store in a freezer bag.
413 Pizza Cook Method
With the PIE/413 Pizza Oven setup done and preheating. The actual cooking of the pizzas follows the 413 Pizza rule or technique.
Pizza Shake
A pizza shake is a blend of ingredients that is sprinkled over the cooked pizza after it comes out of the oven. It adds an extra flavor profile depending on the type of pizza shake being used. Something as simple as a parmesan cheese sprinkled over is excellent for a pepperoni pizza. You can also do a three-cheese blend of parmesan, asiago, and romano.
Pizza Dipping Sauces
My go-to three pizza dipping sauces are pizza sauce, already used on the pizzas, garlic sauce that can also be used to brush the crust of the pizza after coming out of the oven, and donair sauce for those that like a sweet dipping sauce. A fourth pizza dipping sauce is made by combining in equal amounts both the garlic sauce and pesto (Twisty sauce)!
Pepperoni Pizza with Garlic Brushed Crust
The special garlic sauce can also be used to brush the crust of the pizza after it comes out of the oven and served on the side for dipping.
Ingredients
- 1 Overnight Pizza Dough - 280 g to 454 g
- Hotel Ladel Pizza Sauce
- 34 Slices Cured Pepperoni
- As Desired Mozzarella Cheese - or the 3:1 Mozzarella to provolone shredded cheese
- As Desired Parmigiano - or Parmesan, 3 cheese of Parmesan, Asiago and Romano or pizza shake
Instructions
- Preheat the oven: Preheat the oven to the highest setting it will go with one rack in the middle position and the other rack in the bottom position with a pizza stone.
- Hand Tossed Pizza: Place the cornmeal on the counter and the dough ball on top. Use a bit of flour to dust the top to prevent sticking. Hand toss the pizza and place it onto a pizza screen. For more information on how to do this, see the overnight pizza dough, which has a section that walks you through on how to hand-toss a pizza.
- Assembly: Sauce the pizza and top with pepperoni and cheese.
- 4 Minute Cook: Transfer the pizza to the oven to cook for precisely 4 minutes in the middle rack position. 1 Adjustment: At the 4-minute mark (3 minutes of cook time remaining), immediately place the oven on broil. Remove the pizza from the screen or pan to come in direct contact with the pizza stone on the bottom rack position. Flip it around so that the front is now facing the back.3 Minute Broil: Broil for 3 minutes. Immediately take the oven off of Broil and back on to the highest setting. Then transfer the pizza back to the pizza screen or pan and remove it. Slice the pizza and set aside or serve. Repeat for each pizza.
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