Recipe Roundup

31 Perfect Pizza Recipes

Whether you’re a thin-crust aficionado or a Detroit loyalist, your ideal pizza is about to be delivered.
Two pizze topped with red pepper flakes olive oil and basil leaves.
Photo by Travis Rainey, Food styling by Jesse Szewczyk, Prop styling by Christina Allen

You don’t need a dedicated indoor pizza oven to indulge your wildest pizza ideas. Where there is a will—plus flour, yeast, and a heat source—there is a homemade pizza recipe waiting to be made. How you curate your pizza toppings is entirely up to you—but we think these delightful pizzas below offer some stellar starting points.

There’s a classic Margherita pizza topped with tomato sauce and dappled with mozzarella cheese, grandma-style squares, and a cast-iron pizza topped with fennel and sausage. Because free will exists, we make a compelling case—if we do say so ourselves—for pizza for breakfast (sausage, egg, and cheese…and spinach). And, in anticipation of grilling season, we have blistery charred pizza crusts you can cook outdoors. Whether it’s a grill, stove, oven, or, okay, some elaborate pizza oven, we have a pizza recipe just for you.

  • A Sicilian Pizza topped with sliced pepperoni in a sheet pan.
    Photo by Elizabeth Coetzee, Food styling by Rebecca Jurkevich
    1/31

    Sicilian Pizza

    This pizza recipe starts with a distinctive thick and chewy crust. In Sicily, cheese isn’t required, but in this Italian American version of the rectangular pie, pepperoni pairs up with mozzarella for a nostalgic finish.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Katherine Sacks.
    2/31

    BBQ Chicken French Bread Pizzas With Smoked Mozzarella

    In this lo-fi chicken pizza, you’ll top a crusty French loaf with shredded rotisserie chicken, tossed with BBQ sauce, along with softened onions and melty mozzarella.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Dawn Perry
    5/31

    Trenton Tomato Pie Pizza

    This simple tomato pizza is inspired by the classic tomato pie once made at Trenton favorite De Lorenzo’s, where they used to bake it “extra-crispy.”

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Dawn Perry
    6/31

    The Duckor Deluxe Wood-Fired Pizza

    Making beautifully charred, wood-fired pizzas at home is quite possible. With a special pizza-oven attachment, you can instantly turn any kettle charcoal grill into a perfect pie making machine.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Sophie Strangio, Food Styling by Ali Nardi
    11/31

    Zapiekanka

    This late-night snack, popular in outdoor kiosks across Poland, is an Eastern European cousin to French bread pizza, built on a savory base of sautéed mushrooms and caramelized onions.

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  • Photo by Romulo Yanes
    12/31

    Pizza Margherita

    A slightly wet dough, in conjunction with a hot pizza stone, produces a crisp yet chewy crust, the perfect canvas for bright homemade tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, and verdant basil leaves.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Katherine Sacks
    13/31

    White Pizza With Shaved Vegetables and Pesto

    This pizza recipe is a celebration of spring, covered in pesto and cheese and topped with a veritable salad of peas, crisp asparagus ribbons, zucchini, leeks, and watercress.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, and Anna Stockwell
    14/31

    Carrot Pizza With Fontina and Red Onion

    A creamy, sweet carrot purée takes the place of tomato sauce in this unexpected pizza. Buy carrots with the greens still attached: The bitter fronds make a great topping for the pizza and balance out the natural sweetness of the carrots.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Katherine Sacks.
    15/31

    French Bread Pizzas With Ricotta, Roasted Tomatoes, and Pesto

    Creamy ricotta cheese, herby pesto, and roasted cherry tomatoes give these French bread pizzas bright flavor and a fresh look.

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  • Photo by Johnny Miller
    16/31

    Sweet Potato and Kale Pizza

    Sweet potatoes form a silky pizza sauce, topped with crumbled kale and tangy goat cheese. Swap out the greens and cheese for whatever you have on hand: fresh arugula and shaved parm, shaved cabbage and dollops of ricotta, and so on.

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  • Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Katherine Sacks.
    23/31

    French Bread Pizzas With Mozzarella and Pepperoni

    This pepperoni pizza is just as fast as the freezer kind, and fresher too. To give it some extra heat, sprinkle on red pepper flakes.

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  • Marcus Nilsson
    24/31

    Goat-Cheese Pizza

    Roasted grapes add a fruity pop and touch of sweetness to this goat-cheese-topped pizza. Add fresh rosemary as a finishing touch, if you have it on hand.

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  • Photo by Alex Lau, Styling by Claire Saffitz
    25/31

    Cast-Iron Pizza With Fennel and Sausage

    Browning sweet Italian sausage in the same cast-iron skillet used to bake the pie not only preheats the pan (which is essential for a crisp crust), it also infuses that crust with rich, porky flavor.

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  • Photo by Bobbi Lin
    26/31

    Salad Pizza

    In this veg-forward pizza, you’ll cover a just-baked, garlic-scented crust with a crisp salad of Bibb lettuce, blue cheese, prosciutto, and pickled onions, plus plenty of red wine vinaigrette.

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  • Tara Donne
    27/31

    No-Knead Pizza Dough

    This easy pizza dough recipe from Jim Lahey (the mind behind that iconic no-knead bread) derives its chewy, bubbly character from overnight fermentation, not laborious kneading.

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  • Photo by Travis Rainey, Food Styling by Jesse Szewczyk, Prop Styling by Christina Allen
    28/31

    Incredibly Good Homemade Pizza

    A two-pronged approach in this pizza recipe yields a wood-fire-like result that’s hard to imagine coming out of a home oven. Think large irregular bubbles that burnish and blacken and a crust that’s chewy yet crisp. “This was by far the best homemade pizza I’ve made,” writes one reviewer.

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  • Photograph by Isa Zapata, Food Styling by Spencer Richards, Prop Styling by Marina Bevilacqua
    29/31

    Sheet-Pan Corn Pizza With Kimchi and Hot Dogs

    Essentially focaccia with a wild night out piled on top, the mix of ingredients here may seem haphazard. But sweet corn, salty hot dogs, and spicy kimchi make for a shockingly delicious combination.

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  • Photograph by Isa Zapata, Food Styling by Thu Buser, Prop Styling by Stephanie De Luca
    30/31

    BBQ Mushroom Pizza

    “This is so good,” writes one reviewer of this vegetarian pie, “one of those recipes you think about long after it’s finished.”

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