Hot Honey Pizza with Pepperoni & Quick Pickled Peppers
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Serves: 1
 
Honey is our favorite easy upgrade to your favorite pizza dough recipe or store-bought pizza dough. This is our go-to combination right now but adding honey to your pizza works with endless combinations too! If you are using the pizza pronto stovetop oven, cut off some of your dough to make a 10-inch pizza for easier use.
Ingredients
  • Pizza dough
  • ⅓ cup of pizza sauce (we blend the san marzano tomatoes whole tomatoes with basil along with a pinch of sugar, heavy pinches of salt to taste, and good olive oil to taste)
  • 2-3 oz fresh mozzarella, torn into pieces and drained
  • Parmesan, freshly grated to taste
  • Pepperoni, to taste
  • 4 jalapenos, sliced
  • ½ cup white wine vinegar
  • 1 Tbs sugar
  • ⅛ tsp kosher salt
  • Hot honey
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 500 degrees F or highest possible temperature. If using a stovetop pizza pronto, begin to preheat pizza oven on stove.
  2. Bring vinegar, sugar, and kosher salt to simmer in a saucepan while mixing until sugar is combined.
  3. Add jalapenos, cover the pan and turn off the heat allowing them to sit for at least 30 minutes.
  4. Drain and store extra jalepenos in an airtight jar.
  5. Prep and stretch pizza dough per recipe or packaging.
  6. Using a ladle put approximately ⅓ cup of pizza (more or less to taste, not too heavy though) on the pizza dough smoothing and spreading the sauce evenly up to the crust with the bottom of the ladle.
  7. Top with torn pieces of fresh mozzarella and grated parmesan. We keep the cheese light at our house, but add cheese to your taste preferences.
  8. Scatter pepperoni and pickled jalepenos.
  9. Cook pizza according to dough recipe or packaging instructions. If using a pizza pronto, cook for a few minutes watching for edges to begin to char and burn.
  10. Serve immediately and top with more freshly grated parmesan and hot honey to taste at the table.
Recipe by Chez Lem at http://chezlem.com/2016/11/21/hot-honey-pizza-with-pepperoni-quick-pickled-peppers/