How to make Homemade Frozen Pizzas Recipe
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- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 2 frozen pizzas
- Category: pizza, freezer meals, homemade frozen pizza
- Method: oven
- Cuisine: pizza, freezer meals, homemade frozen pizza
Ingredients
- Best Pizza Dough – makes two pizza balls
- 2 cups of freshly shredded mozzarella Cheese, divided
- 1 cup of pizza sauce
- Assorted Toppings – see note about fresh vegetables
Instructions
- Follow the instructions on making the Best Pizza Dough. Thirty minutes before baking (and the dough is ready), place a Pizza Stone on the lower third rack or invert a metal pan and place it on the rack. Preheat the oven to 550F for 30 minutes. *if using a Pizza Screen , do not preheat the screen but place the oven rack on the lower third rung.
- If using the pizza stone or inverted pan, stretch out the dough and place it on a flour-dusted paddle. If you don’t have a paddle, stretch out on flour & semolina-dusted parchment paper.
- Stretch the dough into a 12″ round, thin crust, leaving the outer edge slightly thicker. Using a fork, dock the pizza dough. To dock the dough, you take a fork and prick holes all around the edge and in the middle (avoid the thin spots) to allow air to vent up through the dough while it bakes. This will help prevent bubbles. Repeat with the other dough ball.
- Bake the dough for 6 minutes, then remove the shell from the oven and place it on a cooling rack.
- Once the shell is cooled, put it on a 12″ Cardboard Cake Round and top it with sauce, cheese, and toppings. Place the prepared pizzas on a cookie pan and place in the freezer uncovered. You want to flash-freeze the pizza. It’ll make it easier to wrap later. Freeze for one hour, remove from the freezer, and double wrap in plastic and foil.
- To bake, preheat the oven to 450F, unwrap the pizza, and place it on a screen (do not bake the cardboard round!) or baking stone.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is bubbly.
Notes
Certain fresh vegetables do not freeze well raw – mushrooms, zucchini and squash as they have a high water content. I would either saute up the vegetables first, let them cool and then place on the parbaked pizza shell OR when you’re ready to bake, add them fresh raw veggies then.