Crustless Pizza (Oven Recipe) - Recipes That Crock! (2024)

FAQs

What is the best oven setting for pizza? ›

The best mode in an oven to cook a pizza is the convection mode. This mode uses a fan to circulate hot air throughout the oven, which helps to evenly distribute heat and results in a crispy crust and melted cheese.

Oven-baking instructions:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Lightly oil the pan, and let the dough rise for about 20 minutes before topping and baking it. Bake pizza until the cheese and crust are golden brown, about 15 to 20 minutes.

You'll need ovens that can reach very high temperatures and maintain them over time as you put food in and take food out. Commercial pizza ovens can easily reach 950 degrees Fahrenheit. Although the ideal temperature for cooking pizza in 3-5 minutes is around 800 degrees Fahrenheit.

A convection oven is perfect for baking pizza. Because the hot air from it moves around, your pizza cooks more quickly than in a conventional oven. Because of this, your pizza will be crisper and have a more even surface than when you bake it in a traditional oven.

What is crustless pizza? Simply put, a pizza made without the crust. Instead of pizza crust ground pork or sausage is cooked and layered on the bottom of a skillet. This serves the base of our pizza while your favorite toppings are added on and shredded mozzarella cheese is melted into the toppings and sausage base.

Major chains with crustless pizza options include Giovanni's, Marco's, Noble Roman's, Papa Murphy's, Papa John's, and Pizza King. Many of these options are pizza bowls, which are exactly what they sound like—all the fixin's, in a bowl instead of carb-heavy crust.

By flipping your baking tray upside down, you're essentially creating a makeshift pizza stone. And by switching your oven over to grill after preheating, you're using all that residual heat to crisp up those pizza edges and mimic the effects of a pizza oven.

Once you know how much dough to use, making pizza in your air fryer is quite straightforward. Just as in your standard oven, thinner-crust pizzas can be baked on parchment; thicker crusts will need the support of a pan. Parchment will help you move your thin-crust pizza into the fryer.

If you're baking the pizza in the oven, whether on a pizza stone or not, I always pre-bake the dough for 4-5 minutes before adding toppings, to make sure the pizza dough cooks crisp on the outside and soft and airy in the middle. Once you add the Pizza Sauce and toppings, return it to the oven to finish baking.

How long to bake pizza at 450? ›

As a general guideline, a 12-inch homemade pizza with a thin crust should bake for approximately 10-12 minutes in a 450 degree Fahrenheit oven. If the crust is thicker or the pizza has more toppings, it may need a few extra minutes in the oven.

However, I understand that Papa Murphy's uses a Pactiv pizza tray, which I believe is made of a paperboard material. If that is correct, the Pactiv trays can tolerate oven temperatures of up to 425 degrees F for up to 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 425°F. Remove plastic wrap and leave original crust pizza on tray.