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Preparing the dough for the pizza was a cinch. During the day, I threw some dough ingredients into the bread maker and pressed go. When the beep indicated the dough was ready, I dumped it into an oiled bowl, covered it with a tea towel, and let it rise. An even easier solution would be to buy ready made pizza dough from your favorite grocer 🙂
I seemed to have been a super-organized mom that day, however I left the rest of the recipe to the last minute. My excuse… my daughter and I were out for the day, and by the time we returned home we were starving. We gobbled down some leftovers at 4:30ish and called it a day. By 8pm everyone was hungry again, and it was panic time for pizza making!
Usually a pizza takes approximately 15 minutes to cook, I neglected to notice the cooking time was closer to 40 minutes for this version. Super panic!
Realizing it was late, I quickly sliced onions and threw them onto the cast iron pan letting them sauté while I sliced the green pepper and kielbasa. I should have shredded the cheese, but due to sheer lack of time and more panic, I sliced slabs of cheese and criss crossed them right onto the other ingredients. Now my pizza looked like an ugly apple pie 😦
No worries… 2 cups of sauce covered it all up in a jiffy! Dough on top, and into the oven it went.
On the recipe video below, the pizza was supposed to cook for 20 minutes then flipped right-side-up for another 20 minutes of cooking time.
Well, we were all super hungry and after the initial 20 minutes we agreed it looked awesome enough to eat. Since everything in the pizza was previously cooked with no raw ingredients, we never made the right-side-up flip for the second round of cooking.
Ravenous, we cut into the pizza, and had our late dinner. We ate it up, loved it, and had seconds!
Now I can’t say how the finished pizza would taste, because we never made it that far, but the halfway product was awesome!
Even halfway cooked, I love this recipe because I’m a fan of toppings. With my previous homemade pizza attempts, piling on lots of toppings made for a soggy crust too flimsy to hold it all together. That wasn’t a problem with this half-baked version, since my crust ended up on top with loads of toppings underneath.
The crust was crisp, fluffy, and perfect. Loved it!
I will definitely make this recipe again, and follow through with the entire recipe. I’m so curious to find out how it will turn out.
Here’s the Tasty Recipe and Video for their Upside Down One Pan Pizza.
I have a sneaky suspicion I’m going to stick to my half-baked version for now!
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