Grilling Pizza Tutorial

We have become Pizza Grilling obsessed. Every Saturday night, for the last 6 weeks, we have been trying new recipes and pizza combos to find our ultimate favorite. Here is the problem.. We like them all! I am telling you, grilling pizza is super easy, much healthier, and more cost efficient than ordering take out! If I have not convinced you enough.. hopefully some of these combos will win you over.

At first when I heard about grilling pizza, I was a bit intimated. Don't be! To start out you need...
1. A Pizza Stone (We had a cheaper one from Amazon that is already showing lots of love!)
2. Cookie Sheet
3. Cornmeal (we learned through the expert- Remi- this is a necessity!)
4. Fast Rising Yeast

If you Google Pizza Dough there are millions of recipes. Sweeter versions, Saltier, Simple, Complex, Gluten Free, Whole Wheat etc. Now I am not the pizza dough expert... but this recipe seems to work for us. Oddly any recipe that I tried with sugar just seemed too sweet.

R.R.'s Pizza Dough 

(this recipe was given to us by one of our best friends and I just changed one thing!)

1. 3 cups of all purpose flour
2. 1 packet of Fleischmann's Rapid Rise Yeast (or any yeast, I just prefer this!)
3. 1 5/8 cup of warm water
4. 1 tbs. of Salt

Here is the Yeast I use.

Okay so combined all of the ingredients with your hands. You will need to work them together but don't over knead. (Warning- your hands will be messy... a perfect "toddler helper" activity!) Cover with Saran wrap and let rise.

This is key- The pizza dough needs to rise for at least 8 (plus) hours. Ideal is 12 hours. So the biggest issue with Grilling Pizza is you need to plan ahead enough to make the dough!

Now fast forward 8 hours... 

1. Put Pizza Stone on the grill and start the grill (Warning- Never put a cold pizza stone on a hot grill.. it will crack!)
2. Sprinkle Cornmeal on a cookie sheet so the pizza can easy slide onto the Pizza Stone.
3. Spread out your dough into a "pizza shape" on the cookie sheet.
4. Put on your toppings!!!
5. Slide the Pizza from the cookie sheet to the pizza stone on the grill. The sliding should be easy if you used enough corn meal.
6. Cook for 10-15 Minutes and Voila!

Some of our favorites so far are..

Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Greek Pizza (Feta, Tomatoes, Olives)
BBQ Pizza
Meat Lovers (Will's fav)
Spinach Apple Sausage

We have many more ideas. Hopefully I can put some of them up here (eventually!)

 

And done!

Easy and delicious. 

xoxo,

allie

P.S. When did this lady get so big?

 

Rem's Bread

Anyone who knows Remi... knows he is a bread and pizza expert. As long as I have known Rem... I have always know him to be a huge pizza connoisseur. Remi is also a New Yorker so his pizza expectations are rather high. Will and I have been missing that New York style pizza; Oahu might be strikingly beautiful and have the world's best Kona Coffee/Kalua Pork but Pizza here is a no go. We are pretty much limited to chains. Sorry... but we are admittedly Pizza snobs (blame it on being raised in Connecticut). Anyway, on my recent quest to eliminate processed food from our diet, I felt it was time I dive into the Homemade Bread/Pizza dough genre. It is also super delicious. Thankfully, I have the perfect tutor and expert currently visiting...Remi! So we spent our evening grilling pizza (yes, I LOVE grilling pizza and I totally recommend everyone try it).

We started by making the dough this morning and letting it rise all day. The dough seems scary but it is SO easy. There are tons of recipes online. I can't wait to keep trying them out. 

12 Hours later we started this..

and then we topped the Pizzas and grilled them. The key to grilling pizza is using a Pizza stone and the trick is you have to put the pizza stone on a cold grill or it will crack!

My current favorite toppings are fresh spinach, fresh basil, 

apple chicken sausages, Maui onions, sauce, and mozzarella. So delicious.

I can't wait to keep making dough and trying more Pizza toppings. Endless ideas. 

and of course we had to do some Hawaii stuff today too. We spent the morning at Pearl Harbor.

(Ha, another photo that someone took for us.
It would be cute except they cut out most of Harps!)

I also realized that Will is not in any of these photos! He has been working, but luckily got out a little early today so the boys could go on an adventurous hike. And they worked up the perfect appetite for our Pizza creations.  Thank you Rem for teaching me such a great skill.

xoxo,

allie