Heres just a quick post because I felt the need to start using my skillet again as someone else has been using it, or it could have been me???, and has obviously got it wet so I had to re-season it. So to make it worth all the effort Ive came up with a few skillet based recipes, this is the first. You could always adjust this to use a deep pie dish, but don’t be afraid of getting a good cast iron skillet! If vegan cheese doesn’t appeal to you, why not try using the thick, cheesy pizza topping sauce from my caramelised red onion pizza?
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cup plain white flour
1x7g packet of fast action dried yeast
1 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
1 cup of tepid water
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp polenta
Your favorite pizza toppings and pizza sauce, I used vegan cheese, peppers, spinach, fresh basil and fresh tomatoes
Method:
Preheat the oven to 200c/400f. Whisk together your flour, salt, sugar and yeast in a mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre of your dry ingredients and add the water and oil, stir well and knead lightly in the bowl for about 4 minutes, leave to rest for a couple of minutes. Grease your cast iron skillet with oil and sprinkle the polenta on the bottom. Now roll out your dough until it is slightly bigger than the base of you skillet and gently lay it into your pan, push the dough into the shape of the pan, up about 3/4 of the sides of the pan. Now top with your pizza fillings, starting with the sauce, pile the fillings right to the brim of the crust. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the crust is golden, let cool slightly in the pan before sliding out and cutting. Remember to always use oven gloves when handling a hot cast iron skillet.
This looks amazing! I love the idea of making pizza in a cast iron skillet!
thanks! I like how the pizza can be made full to bursting piont with fillings.
Great idea! I have the perfect skillet!
My skillet is my favorite thing, great for fryed breakfasts, upside down cakes and also my choice weapon for a zombie apocalypse!
What an idea! I have so many skillet, I can’t wait to do this!
Thanks
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This looks really good. I am going to try this. Thanks for the recipe.
yum! what a great idea!
Brilliant! I love using my skillet for baking!!!! The last thing I baked in mine was a savory bread pudding. Your pizza is beautiful. I bet the crust turned out super in the cast iron. I am looking forward to seeing what else you’ve made in your skillet.
wow this seems so simple for me, love using my skillet!
i also nominated you for the liebster award!
http://kaityscooking.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/2402/
I made your lovely tasty pizza & I loved every bit of it! I added vegan chorizo to the pizza & it was even more divine!
Awesome! I love vegan chorizo, sounds good.
I use the German brand: Wheaty. Here is their website: http://www.wheaty.de/en/4032277002704/veganslices-chorizo
This is a vegan product range based on wheat protein & often they don’t contain soy!!! 🙂
Now I really need a cast iron skillet. Blast, my kitchen is all ready bursting at the seams.
I love my skillet, I have been trying to make a vegan dutch baby but so far, no success
OH MY LORD. Please let me know if you figure it out. Lucy at Lucy’s Friendly Foods made a vegan meringue and vegan pavlova so perhaps anything is possible….
http://lucysfriendlyfoods.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/egg-free-meringue/
http://lucysfriendlyfoods.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/egg-free-raspberry-pavlova/
Ooooooo That looks lush, I would love a lemon meringue pie.
search her search bar, she has a lemon or lime curd that would work perfectly for the base. Dang Cordon Bleu training. She knocks my socks off.
Amazing. My cast iron skillet is one of the better kitchen purchases I’ve made, but it never occurred to me to make a deep dish pizza. I’ve made bread in it before, and it does give it the most delightful crust/crunch.
This looks AMAZING!! Can’t wait to try it!!
Great idea! Now I can go heavy on the toppings without spillage.