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Family sheet pan pizza

A great way to share a meal together. Whole wheat pizza bottom, homemade oven roasted tomato sauce and whatever toppings everyone likes!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Rising time for pizza dough 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course lunch, Main Course, Snack
Servings 4 people
Calories 311 kcal

Equipment

  • Sheet pan
  • Rolling pin

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup pizza sauce (I highly recommend using this homemade oven roasted tomato sauce. For details and ingredients see Notes below*)
  • 1 batch whole wheat pizza dough ** for the recipe
  • 2-3 cups grated cheese (of choice, see text above for recommendations)
  • 2-3 cups toppings (of choice, see text above for recommendations and inspiration)
  • 1-2 handsful garnishing (of choice like fresh herbs and greens. See text above for recommendations and inspiration)

Instructions
 

Oven roasted tomato sauce (if you are making pizza sauce yourself)

  • Cut tomatoes in half, line them in on a high rimmed baking sheet, drizzle balsamic vinegar and olive oil on it, sprinkles with salt, pepper and oregano and slowly roast them in the oven for 2-2½ hours. 
  • After 1¾-2 hours, add onion and garlic to the baking sheet.
  • Blend the roasted tomatoes, onion and garlic into a smooth sauce.

Whole wheat pizza dough

  • 1¼-1½ hours before you want to serve your sheet pan pizza start making the dough. It needs to rise for about 1 hour. For a detailed how-to just follow this simple whole wheat pizza dough.

Prepare all the toppings

  • In the meantime while the pizza dough is resting, prepare all the toppings.
    Especially when everyone wants to decorate their own piece of the pizza, it is a good idea to have everything ready on the countertop. Like a salad bar, all you have to do is walk along the line of toppings with your bare rolled out pizza dough.
  • Preheat the oven to 240C/465F or as high as your oven will go. And prepare your sheet pan by lightly greasing it and dusting it some flour.

Roll out the pizza dough

  • Roll out the pizza dough in a rectangle that is just a bit large than the sheet pan you are using to bake the pizza in. This way there is a bit of an overhang so the edges can crisp up in the oven.
  • Transfer the dough to the prepared sheet pan.

Add toppings to the pizza

  • First add pizza sauce to the pizza bottom.
  • Now add your preferred toppings; veggies, fruit, meats, fish, seafood, pesto
  • And finally add some cheese.

Bake the pizza

  • Center the pizza on the middle rack and bake for 5-7 minutes until all cheese has melted and the sides are crispy and golden brown.

Garnish your sheet pan pizza

  • I highly recommend sprinkling herbs, greens (and some fruits and fresh cheese) after baking to keep them vibrant and fresh.
  • Cut the pizza in squares and you are ready to serve!

Notes

*oven roasted tomato sauce
**whole wheat pizza dough
 
Nutritional information:
the information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist's advice.
*Nutrition facts are for pizza with tomato sauce and cheese, but without toppings