Cajun Pizza
This delicious Cajun pizza is sprinkled with Cajun seasoning and topped with red onion, green pepper, corn, and smoked gouda cheese.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 pizza (8 slices) 1x
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Cajun
Ingredients
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- 1 ball Best Pizza Dough (or Food Processor Dough or Thin Crust Dough)
- 1/2 cup Homemade Easy Pizza Sauce
- Cajun seasoning
- 1/2 cup shredded smoked gouda cheese
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 jalapeño pepper
- 1/2 red onion
- 1/2 green pepper (optional)
- 1 handful of corn, frozen or fresh
- Kosher salt
- Semolina flour or cornmeal, for dusting the pizza peel
Instructions
- Make the pizza dough: Follow the Best Pizza Dough recipe to prepare the dough. (This takes about 15 minutes to make and 45 minutes to rest.)
- Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 500°F. OR preheat your pizza oven (here’s the pizza oven we use).
- Make the pizza sauce: Make the Homemade Pizza Sauce.
- Prepare the toppings: Cut the jalapeño pepper in half, remove the seeds, and finely dice it. Thinly slice the red onion. Chop the pepper. If the cheese is not yet shredded, grate it.
- Place the dough on the pizza peel:
- When the oven is ready, dust a pizza peel with cornmeal or semolina flour. (If you don’t have a pizza peel, you can use a rimless baking sheet or the back of a rimmed baking sheet. But a pizza peel is well worth the investment!) Stretch the dough into a circle; see this video for instructions. Then gently place the dough onto the pizza peel.
- Quickly assemble the pizza: Thinly spread the pizza sauce over the dough, then sprinkle liberally with Cajun seasoning. Sprinkle with as much smoked gouda and mozzarella cheese as you like. Top with red onion, jalapeno, corn, and green pepper (if using). Sprinkle with a bit of kosher salt.
- Bake the pizza: Transfer the pizza to the pizza stone using the pizza peel, and bake until the cheese and crust are nicely browned, about 5 to 7 minutes (or 1 minute in a pizza oven).
Find it online: https://www.acouplecooks.com/cajun-pizza/