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Making Pizza on The Stove Top

This is a quick and easy recipe for Stove Top Pizza. This is just perfect for times when you want to enjoy homemade pizza and don’t feel like ordering take-out pizza or going anywhere! The best part is that you also don’t need to have access to a good oven.

Recipe will make two personal pizzas.

 Making Pizza on the Stove Top Recipe by ManjulaIngredients:

For Dough

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour (plain flour or maida)
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 2 tablespoons thick yogurt (curd or dahi) room temperature
  • 1/3 cup lukewarm water use as needed
  • About 2 tablespoon all-purpose flour needed to roll the dough

Sauce

  • 1-1/2 cups tomatoes seeded and chopped in small pieces
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning optional
  • 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil

Topping

  • 1/2 cup bell pepper cut into small pieces,
  • 1/4 cup mushrooms sliced
  • About 3/4 cup mozzarella cheese shredded

Method

  1. In a bowl mix all the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar.
  2. Add oil and yogurt to the flour and mix it well, add water as needed to make soft dough will be little sticky. Sprinkle little dry flour over the dough and knead to make smooth dough.
  3. Cover the dough and let it sit for about 3 hours or more.
  4. In a saucepan heat the oil on medium high heat. Add all the sauce ingredients, tomatoes, salt, sugar, pepper, and Italian herbs. Cook for about 3 minutes till most of the water from tomato has evaporated and looks like a chunky sauce.
  5. Use the same pan and sauté the bell peppers, and mushrooms for 2 minutes until most of the moisture has evaporated but still they are crisp. Set aside.
  6. Knead the dough for few seconds and divide into two equal parts and roll them in about 10” circle, if dough start sticking to the rolling pin or rolling surface dust little more dry flour.
  7. Heat the heavy pan skillet over low medium heat, lightly oil the skillet and put the rolled pizza over. Let it cook for about 2 minutes until crust has nicely browned from bottom. Lower the heat to low.
  8. Flip the crust, brush it lightly with oil do it quick spread about half the sauce, cheese and topping. Cover the pan for about 3 minutes and check, cheese should be melted. Lift the pizza little from the side crust should be the nicely brown.

Tips: make sure heat is low otherwise pizza will burn and not cook through.

you will also like to see the Vegetable pasta


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28 thoughts on “Making Pizza on The Stove Top

  1. Hello Aunty,

    I tried ur stove top pizza. My whole family said yummyyyyyy no more pizza hut from now on. Thanks a lot for shareing .

    Regards,

    Srilakshmi

  2. manjula ji,
    i tried pizza today the topping are all good. but the crust is like biscuit. where i was mistaken..? i think i follow the measurements and instructions properly even then the crust is so hard.

  3. thanks the recipe.. i have been looking for the stove top pizza for long time. as soon as i saw the recipe i felt like wow… i am going to try my personal pizza today.

  4. Hi….madam I have used many of your recipes n have turned out successful.Just as a reminder mozzarella cheese is not vegetarian as many other cheese,it contains rennet which is an extract from the hoofs of the cow,what other cheese can I use,I am a Hindu n can’t consume this cheese.Thank you.

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