2x Homemade pizzas directly on the grill

[Daum]

Last night Kate and I decided to whip up two pizzas. We did both with homemade flatbread dough (really quick and easy, just flour, baking powder, salt, oil and takes 15 minutes from start to use). One we made with pesto, shrimp, tomatoes and manchego cheese. The other was caramelized onions, mushrooms, mozzarella and a dotted with creamy blue cheese.

Here is the dough before hitting the grill:

Before first flip:

Dressing it:

Finished product:

Other pizza:

Underside of crust:

I'd save overall this is the best crust we've worked with, definitely the easiest and quickest. I do like regular crust too though, so we'll do that again soon, it has worked well directly on the grill too. Everything turned out really well. Next time we make the pesto we'll use a little less oil in it so that it doesn't make the pizza as oily and after a little the crust on that pizza got a bit chewier.

until next time!
Daum

 

[Craig Alumbaugh]

Both pies look mighty tasty, great job on them

 

[Rich Dahl]

Great looking pies Daum. Barb and I have been doing pies that same exact way for years. Now that we have a Kettle Pizza we use that to get the wood fire taste which is quite good. Taste wise grilled pizza is still way better than store bought.

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Great looking pies! Particularly like number 2.

 

[JRAiona]

Great looking pizzas Daum. Like Rich we've been doing pizza on the grill for years. Can't beat it.

 

[Daum]

Great looking pies Daum. Barb and I have been doing pies that same exact way for years. Now that we have a Kettle Pizza we use that to get the wood fire taste which is quite good. Taste wise grilled pizza is still way better than store bought.

Awesome I'll have to try that sometime. A lot of times I'll use charcoal which gets a good flavor but still not quite wood oven based.

Daum

 

[DBWallis]

I love a little char on the bottom of a pizza... those look yummy!

 

[Enrico Brandizzi]

Great looking pizzas! Complimenti

 

[John Sp]

Great looking pizzas Daum. I have never done one because i thought you had to have a stone or a fancy oven attachment. We are going to give those a try real soon...

Regards,

John

 

[Wystan C]

I have got to try this... Hot hot were you running the grill and about how long do you cook them? They look great!

 

[Barb D]

Outstanding pizza they both love yummy. Grilling is the only way to do pizza for sure.

 

[Daum]

I have got to try this... Hot hot were you running the grill and about how long do you cook them? They look great!

I preheated it up to as high as it could go (550+) then for the most part just left it on full power. Depending on how long it was taking us to get the toppings on I would sometimes lower the heat a tiny bit just to prevent the crust from getting to cripsy before the top melted. I think with this dough we've most of the time always left it on high, however when we've done regular dough we've had issues where it crisps up too quickly for the toppings so have sometimed reduced to a medium-high heat there.

When I use the charcoal I usually do a single layer across the bottom grate with the vents 3/4-full open.

Daum