Easy Sheet Pan Pepperoni Pizza
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This is an insanely easy recipe to make at home, while it looks and tastes like you got takeout from your favorite pizza place. Best of all, the recipe uses store bought pizza dough, making it that much easier to have this on your dinner table ASAP! The trick with store bought dough is to let it sit at room temperature, on a flour lined plate or cutting board, for at least an hour before you're ready to bake your pizza. It will make it much easier to work with.
The key ingredient for this pizza recipe is the homemade tomato sauce, which comes together in less than 5 minutes using a food processor or a blender. If you have more sauce than you need, it keeps for almost a week in the fridge and then can be frozen - so you're already one step ahead of your next pizza night! All that said, if you don’t want to make your own sauce you can of course use store bought pizza sauce or even use a bit of your favorite marinara sauce from a jar in a pinch!
Serves 4 for dinner. Can be GF if you sub GF pizza dough.
Special Equipment
Ingredients
Directions
Remove your pizza dough from the fridge and let it sit at room temp for one hour on a paper towel lined plate or cutting board.
Preheat your oven to 500 F and make sure you have a rack positioned as close to the bottom of the oven as you can. Coat your quarter sheet pan with the 2 Tablespoon of olive oil, and rub it all over the pan. While the oven preheats, prepare and set aside all the other ingredients.
Make your pizza sauce. Add all the pizza sauce ingredients to a food processor or blender. Turn on the food processor and blend until the mixture is smooth. Store extra pizza sauce in the fridge for 5 days or in the freezer for up to a month.
Gently stretch the room temperature pizza dough with your hands until it's roughly the size of the sheet pan. Place the stretched dough on top of the oiled pan and continue to press the dough out to the edges.
Using a spoon or small ladle, spread the tomato sauce around the top of the dough, leaving a ~1/2 inch border for the crust. Add all but 2 tablespoons worth of the shredded mozzarella to the pizza, spreading it out evenly over the sauce.
Scatter the pepperoni all over the top of the cheese. Then top the pepperoni with the remaining tablespoon of shredded mozzarella.
Bake your pizza! Place it on the lower-most rack in the oven, and bake at 500F until the crust is golden and the cheese is bubbling, ~10 minutes. Remove from the oven and place the pan on a wire rack. Using one or two large spatulas, carefully transfer the pizza to a cutting board. Slice & Serve!