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Cast Iron Pizza
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Cast Iron Pizza

Cast Iron Pizza

If a classic pepperoni pizza took a trip to Italy, it might come back looking like this. Soppressata, melty mozzarella, sauce, Calabrian chiles and homemade hot honey, that makes it crispy, chewy, spicy and sweet. How could this ever be bad?

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Makes One 12 Inch Pizza

Ingredients

Pizza

  • 10-12 ounce ball pizza dough removed from fridge a couple hours before using
  • All purpose flour and cornmeal for dusting
  • ¼ cup pizza sauce, any or see recipe below
  • 1 ½ ounces torn fresh mozzarella
  • 1/3 cup loosley packed thin sliced red onion
  • 6 slices soppressata
  • ¼ ounce thinly sliced red onion
  • 3 tablespoons jarred Calabrian chili paste
  • Fresh oregano leaves
  • Hot honey, see recipe below

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Sauce

  • One 15 ounce can tomatoes - any will work, I used chopped baby Romas
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 large garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 1 tablespoon fresh oregano
  • Kosher salt & coarse ground black pepper, to taste

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Hot Honey

  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 2-3 tablespoons cholula hot sauce, or whatever your fav hot sauce is
  • 1/2 teaspoon cayenne, or more if you like - optional

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Directions

Pizza

  1. If using a grill, light a chimney filled with briquettes or lump charcoal
  2. If using an oven, preheat to 500 degrees with the cast iron pan in it
  3. When the briquettes are ashed over and white, dump in the coals, put on the grate and add the the cast iron pan - put on the lid
  4. Now prep the pizza: flour your work surface well, and shape dough into a 12 inch circle (as best you can) leaving border
  5. Add some flour and cornmeal to a pizza peel, and top with the rolled out dough
  6. Spread on some sauce, and add mozzarella, red onion, scatter spoonfuls of the Calabrian chili paste, and finally add the Soppressata and oregano
  7. Make sure you can shake the pizza on the peel, cuz if it won’t here it won’t make it into the pan
  8.  Spread about a teaspoon of oil on the pan with a brush, and carefully slide in the pizza
  9. Immediately put on the lid or close the oven door and cook until browned, puffy and beautiful – likely 7-10 minutes
  10. Remove, shave Parmesan over the top and drizzle with the hot honey

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Sauce

  1. Combine all ingredients and blend using an immersion blender (but it doesn't have to be in the can like I did) set aside

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Hot Honey

  1. Put honey, hot sauce and cayenne in a small pot over medium low heat
  2. Once it starts to warm, stir until it doesn't look streaky anymore

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