11 Pizza Recipes for Homemade Pizza Night

These pizza recipes compare homemade yeast dough with prepared dough and baked flatbreads. Choose tomato and mozzarella, chicken, barbecue, garlic white sauce, pesto or vegetables, with oven, skillet and grill methods linked below.

Check whether the base starts as raw dough or fully baked naan. Product instructions can govern temperature and pre-baking for prepared dough. Meat toppings need their specified cooking before assembly, and the underside of a raw base must finish baking as well as the cheese melting.

Pizza Recipes with Raw Dough

Two recipes make dough from ingredients; the others begin with compatible prepared raw dough.

Pizza Recipes featuring Homemade Tomato Mozzarella Pizza

1. Homemade Tomato Mozzarella Pizza

A measured yeast dough rises before being divided into two twelve-inch bases. Tomato sauce and mozzarella keep the topping simple. Allow for yeast activation, rising, shaping and separate oven loads rather than counting only the final bake.

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Chicken Alfredo Bacon Pizza

2. Chicken Alfredo Bacon Pizza

Homemade yeast dough forms two bases beneath a separately prepared cream-Parmesan sauce, cooked chicken, cooked bacon and onion. The sauce is measured before topping. This recipe includes dough preparation as well as the chicken Alfredo pizza assembly.

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Grilled Pepperoni Pizza

3. Grilled Pepperoni Pizza

A thin raw dough base grills on one face before being turned for sauce, mozzarella and ready-to-eat pepperoni. A hot zone and cooler zone help manage the finish. Cook the center bread fully and add basil after the brief rest.

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Garlic White Pizza

4. Garlic White Pizza

Ready-to-roll raw dough carries a small homemade garlic milk sauce, drained fresh mozzarella and Parmesan. The pan and rim use separate oil shares. Choose a dough product suitable for the listed temperature and check the base beneath the soft cheese topping.

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Prepared Crusts and Skillet Pizzas

Compare a large dough base, a cast-iron method and fully baked flatbreads.

Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza

5. Chicken Bacon Ranch Pizza

Prepared refrigerated dough forms one large pizza topped with hot cooked chicken, bacon, mozzarella and part of the ranch dressing. The reserved ranch is a finish after baking. This recipe uses one fourteen-inch base rather than the two-pizza homemade dough batch.

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Barbecue Chicken Gouda Pizza

6. Barbecue Chicken Gouda Pizza

Ready-made raw dough is topped with barbecue-coated cooked chicken, mozzarella, smoked Gouda and red onion. The barbecue sauce is split between chicken and base. Cornmeal dusts the pan, and cilantro is added after the finished pizza rests.

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Skillet Pepperoni Vegetable Pizza

7. Skillet Pepperoni Vegetable Pizza

Raw dough is pressed into a cool oiled cast-iron skillet and briefly par-baked before topping. Mushrooms, pepper and onion cook first. The second oven stage finishes the center and underside, with care around the hot skillet handle.

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Thai-Style Chicken Flatbread Pizza

8. Thai-Style Chicken Flatbread Pizza

Cooked chicken in a peanut sauce tops fully baked naan with cheese and prepared vegetables. A refrigerated coconut-yogurt crema, peanuts and cilantro finish it. This is a baked-flatbread option, with chicken and sauce preparation included before the oven stage.

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Vegetable and Pesto Pizza

Prepare moist toppings before arranging them over the base.

Zucchini Tomato Pizza

9. Zucchini Tomato Pizza

Thin blotted zucchini slices sit over tomato sauce and mozzarella on a wheat-dough base. Parmesan finishes the pizza after resting. The zucchini is a topping rather than the crust, so this is not a flourless or vegetable-base pizza.

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White Zucchini Corn Pizza

10. White Zucchini Corn Pizza

Zucchini is cooked briefly with butter, garlic and prepared corn before topping raw dough with mozzarella and ricotta. Drain moist cheeses and let vegetable steam escape. The dough label governs oven settings and any required pre-bake.

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Chicken Pesto Tomato Pizza

11. Chicken Pesto Tomato Pizza

Prepared pesto replaces tomato sauce beneath drained mozzarella, ricotta, cooked chicken and blotted cherry tomatoes. Raw refrigerated dough is prepared by its label. Keep the topping evenly distributed and confirm the underside is baked before slicing.

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Before You Choose Your Recipe

For a dough-making project, choose the plain yeast pizza or chicken Alfredo version. Prepared dough reduces that stage, while baked naan offers another base. Drain moist cheeses and vegetables as directed, and include any separate topping preparation before the pizza reaches the oven.

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