Grilled Pizza

Come to mama.

When it's too hot to use the oven, but you just really really want pizza. There's a heat wave going on in South Jersey along with much of the United States this week, so what better way to put your grill to use than to make a pizza. I love to grill my veggies in the summer so I decided to combine a few of my favorite things... grilling and pizza.

For this recipe I used dough from my local bakery, but I also like to use Pillsbury pizza dough. The other ingredients are simple; crushed tomatoes, some seasonings, peppers and onions. Oh yeah, and cheese.

Ingredients

Pizza dough

2 yellow onions

3 peppers (green, yellow, orange)

Can of crushed tomatoes

Minced garlic

Mozzarella Cheese

Grated Pecorino cheese

Chicken Seasoning (any kind of seasoned salt will do)

Chili Powder

Olive Oil

First, start with the vegetables. Leave the peppers whole and coat them with olive oil.

Cut the onions in half, don't even bother peeling them.

Add some chicken or steak seasoning to the cut side along with some olive oil.

Add the peppers and onions to the grill and keep an eye on the peppers.

Turn them until all sides are charred. After you turn the peppers a couple times, turn the unions upside down to keep grilling.

While the veggies are still cooking, stretch out your pizza dough and drizzle with olive oil.

Don't make it too thin or the middle of the dough will burn before the crust cooks.

Cut up the veggies and the cheese to get yourself ready to assemble this pizza.

The charred skins will easily peel away from the peppers, and so will the outer layer of the onion.

Before you put the pizza on, make sure to put some olive oil on a paper towel and grease the grill.

Rotate and flip the dough as necessary.

Use a round pan to put underneath the pizza and let the edges hang over so the middle won't burn.

When the dough is about done spread minced garlic, grated pecorino cheese, and chili powder and salt over all over.

Add sauce...

and cheese...

add peppers and onions last so they stick to the cheese....

keep the pizza on a pan and close the grill lid so the cheese is good and melty...

Crunchy, melty, delicious.

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