This Cast Iron Skillet Pizza recipe is easy and fun to make. It bakes in the oven in about 15 minutes. I top it with pepperoni in this recipe, but you can use your favorite toppings to make restaurant-style pizza in your own kitchen!
Why cast iron pizza is so good: it’s ready fast, and has a thick, chewy crust…
Beginner home cooks – scroll down for a detailed and printable step by step recipe (with video!).
Ingredients
Here’s what you need to make cast iron pizza in the oven…
- 1 lb pizza dough
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- 1 cup mozzarella, shredded
- .5 cups cheddar, shredded
- ¼ medium red onion, sliced
- ½ cup pepperoni slices
- ¼ tsp Italian seasoning
- 2 tbsp basil
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Detailed recipe steps
- Preheat a 12” cast iron skillet by placing it on the middle rack in the oven and setting the heat to 500 degrees F.
- Stretch room temperature pizza dough with flour, in the shape of a circle.
- Remove the hot skillet from the oven (leave oven on). Drizzle half the olive oil on the bottom of the skillet, and brush it around to evenly coat the cast iron pan. Add dough on top. Push the edges carefully around the cast iron skillet, to form a 1” crust. Brush the crust with olive oil and sprinkle with salt.
- Par-bake pizza dough (without toppings) for 3 minutes in the oven on 500 degrees F.
- Remove pizza from the oven and add a layer of pizza sauce, leaving room for the crust. Top with cheese, red onion, pepperoni, and a sprinkle of Italian seasoning.
- Bake cast iron pizza for 10-12 minutes, until the cheese is bubbling and the crust is golden brown.
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- Slice and serve with fresh basil.
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The Perfect Pizza Setup
Want to make restaurant style pizza at home? I’ve got you covered! Here are some of my top tips, tricks, secret ingredients and tools for a pizza night everyone will look forward to, again and again.
- NEVER do this… Contrary to what most people believe, when baking pizza on a sheet pan, never add toppings to raw pizza dough. Instead, follow my recipe for making homemade pizza with ready made dough, which will teach you how to par bake pizza dough first.
- Get help from secret ingredients…
– This dough seasoning is the secret to real Italian-tasting homemade pizza dough.
– Add pizza seasoning to store bought pizza sauce. This makes the pizza taste really fresh! - Herbs are for after… In my weekly pizza making practice, I’ve found that fresh herbs, like basil, need to be added to pizza after the pizza is done baking (so the herbs don’t wilt).
- Buy fresh dough and get amazing results. Yup, fresh dough from grocery stores is one of my favorite short-cuts. Learn how to use fresh Trader Joe’s pizza dough and Whole Foods pizza dough with my tutorials.
- Frozen pizza can taste amazing, too!! Learn how to spruce it up with this recipe for pizza using frozen crust.
- Slice pizza pies like a chef with just a few swipes, using big ol’ pizza cutters.
- Want to grill pizza? Here are some pizza grilling tools to check out.
- Do you really need to cook pizza on the rack? Nope! I basically never do. Here are tools you see me using in my tutorials on cooking pizza in the oven…
– Bake pizza on a rimmed baking pan set to get a beautiful golden brown crust.
– Love crispy crust? Let the air flow with this dishwasher safe pizza pan.
– Get personal – let your fam / friends top their own pies with this set of personal pizza pans.
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Cast Iron Skillet Pizza Recipe
Video
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb pizza dough room temperature for 2-5 hours
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese shredded
- .5 cups cheddar cheese or gruyere, shredded
- ¼ medium red onion sliced thin (optional)
- ½ cup pepperoni slices
- ¼ tsp Italian seasoning dried
- 2 tbsp fresh basil
Instructions
- Preheat a 12” cast iron skillet by placing it on the middle rack in the oven and setting the heat to 500 degrees F.
- Stretch room temperature pizza dough with flour, in the shape of a circle.
- Remove the hot skillet from the oven (leave oven on). Drizzle half the olive oil on the bottom of the skillet, and brush it around to evenly coat the cast iron pan. Add dough on top. Push the edges carefully around the cast iron skillet, to form a 1” crust. Brush the crust with olive oil and sprinkle with salt.
- Par-bake pizza dough (without toppings) for 3 minutes in the oven on 500 degrees F.
- Remove pizza from the oven and add a layer of pizza sauce, leaving room for the crust. Top with cheese, red onion, pepperoni, and a sprinkle of Italian seasoning.
- Bake cast iron pizza for 10-12 minutes, until the cheese is bubbling and the crust is golden brown.
- Slice and serve with fresh basil.
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