Hot Honey Pepperoni Pizza
Want to spice up Pizza Night? This Hot Honey Pepperoni Pizza is a sweet & spicy duo that features zesty pepperoni, pickled jalapeno slices, dollops of cooling goat cheese and a drizzle of hot honey.
Equipment
- baking sheet or pizza stone
- Pizza Cutter
- Rolling Pin optional
Ingredients
Pizza
- 1 Pizza dough approximately 300g for an 8-10 inch pizza
- 3 tablespoons sauce
- 1 cup mozzarella from a block, not pre-shredded
- 1 ounce goat cheese give or take. You can use 1.5 ounces if needed.
- 8-10 pepperoni slices
- 12 pickled jalapeno slices or more or less to taste
- A drizzle of honey 1 tablespoon or so
Hot Honey
- ½ cup honey
- 2-3 teaspoons minced serrano the more you use, the spicier it’s gonna get!
Instructions
Make Hot Honey
- Add honey and jalapeno to a saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium low. Remove from heat. Optionally, you can strain the peppers using a fine-meshed sieve, but I prefer to keep them in the honey for a bit of color.
Make the Pizza
- Place a pizza stone or upside down baking sheet in the middle rack of your oven and preheat to 500-550. Bonus points if you let it heat for a full 30 minutes.
- Dust parchment paper with cornmeal and/or flour. Lightly coat your hands in flour if you intend to hand stretch your dough. Then stretch (or roll it), forming it into a rough circle.
- Spoon approximately 3 tablespoons of sauce onto an 8-10” pizza and spread it around equally, leaving a ½ inch to inch rim around the edge.
- Then sprinkle approximately half of the grated mozzarella over the sauce.
- Lay the pepperoni down in concentric circles.
- Sprinkle with the rest of the cheese.
- Using a pizza peel (or a cutting board, transfer the pizza on the parchment paper to the oven (being careful not to burn yourself).
- Bake for approximately 8-10 minutes, checking after 6. (Note: if using preshredded cheese bc you don’t have anything else on hand, you will want to check the oven after 6 minutes and if needed, add a little more cheese to the top to keep it from burning on you. * Note 1
- Remove from oven. Drizzle with 1-2 tablespoons hot honey and top (optionally) with fresh basil leaves. Slice and serve.
Notes
Note 1: If you are making more than one pizza, subsequent pizzas may take a minute or 2 longer to cook because opening the oven door will lower the oven’s temperature.
You can also use the broiler in the last 1 or 2 before you take the pizza out of the oven so that some of the cheese and crust catches and browns or chars.
Let the ingredients serve as a guide. If you have a little extra dough, be prepared to use more sauce, more cheese, more EVERYTHING.
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