Takeaway style pepperoni and hot honey pizza, from dough to sauce to table!
While a pepperoni pizza is a classic, the addition of just a little sweet and spicy flavour compliments the savoury saltiness perfectly. With this guide, this dough and this sauce, you can make delicious takeaway style pizza at home!
Ingredients For Pepperoni & Hot Honey Pizza
- Dough: I use this 2-3 day pizza dough recipe.
- Pizza Sauce: This recipe uses a simple, uncooked pizza sauce made with crushed tomatoes (passata rustica). I like Cirio brand passata rustica.
- Cheese: Low moisture mozzarella, preferably from a whole block like this.
- Pepperoni: I like Properoni pepperoni.
- Hot Honey: A mildly hot and sweet touch to finish the pizza.
How To Make Pepperoni & Hot Honey Pizza
Step 1: Dough
Remove the pizza dough ball from the fridge 2-3 hours before you want to bake. Preheat your oven before unfolding the pizza dough. Drop the pizza dough ball into a bowl of flour. The smooth top side of the dough ball will become the underside of the pizza. Coat both sides of the dough with a generous amount of flour and transfer to a work surface.
Press your fingers around the outside of the dough to form a crust, then press down into the middle. Flip the dough over and repeat. Lift the dough and carefully stretch to form a 12” crust. Lightly dust a pizza peel with a pinch of semolina and a pinch of bread flour. Transfer the prepared crust to the peel.
Step 2: Toppings
Top with the pizza sauce, grated mozzarella cheese and pepperoni slices. Arrange toppings towards the outer edges of the crust as the ingredients will naturally slide towards the middle as the pizza bakes.
Step 3: Bake
In a pizza oven: Transfer the pizza to the pizza stone in your oven. Bake at 325C for 4-5 minutes, rotating the pizza occasionally until the crust is nicely charred and the cheese and toppings are sizzling.
In a regular kitchen oven: Transfer the pizza to the pizza stone in your oven. Bake at 240C for 6-7 minutes, rotating the pizza once or twice until the crust is nicely charred and the cheese and toppings are sizzling.
Step 4: Serve
Garnish the pizza with black pepper and dried oregano, drizzle generously with hot honey, slice and serve.
I hope you’ll try this pepperoni & hot honey pizza recipe.
- 1 300g pizza dough ball (leave your dough out of the fridge 2-3 hours before cooking)
- 75 grams simple pizza sauce see notes
- 100 grams mozzarella cheese , grated or finely chopped
- 40 grams pepperoni slices
- 1 pinch black pepper
- 1 pinch dried oregano
- 2 teaspoons hot honey
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Remove the pizza dough ball from the fridge 2-3 hours before you want to bake. Preheat your oven before unfolding the pizza dough.
Drop the pizza dough ball into a bowl of flour. The smooth top side of the dough ball will become the underside of the pizza.
Coat both sides of the dough with a generous amount of flour and transfer to a work surface. Press your fingers around the outside of the dough to form a crust, then press down into the middle. Flip the dough over and repeat. Lift the dough and carefully stretch to form a 12” crust.
Lightly dust a pizza peel with a pinch of semolina and a pinch of bread flour. Transfer the prepared crust to the peel.
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Top with pizza sauce, grated mozzarella cheese and pepperoni slices. Arrange toppings towards the outer edges of the crust as the ingredients will naturally slide towards the middle as the pizza bakes.
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In a pizza oven: Transfer the pizza to the pizza stone in your oven. Bake at 325C for 4-5 minutes, rotating the pizza occasionally until the crust is nicely charred and the cheese and toppings are sizzling.
In a regular kitchen oven: Transfer the pizza to the pizza stone in your oven. Bake at 240C for 6-7 minutes, rotating the pizza once or twice until the crust is nicely charred and the cheese and toppings are sizzling.
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Garnish the pizza with black pepper and dried oregano, drizzle generously with hot honey, slice and serve.
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