Sheet Pan Pizza Is the Ultimate Weeknight Dinner Move

当我陷入困境时quick dinner after work, homemadepizzais the last thing on my mind. Preparing it entirely from scratch is out of the question, since I’m too tired to make dough and chop vegetables. And I've tried using all pre-prepared ingredients, to less-than-satisfying results.

However, I recently came across a recipe on our website that changed my mind—asheet pan pizza, ready in just 45 minutes. While it still calls for fresh dough, you buy it pre-prepared, which saves at least an hour or two. Plus, preparing the pizza and baking it all on one sheet also minimizes mess andtools. With a few fresh ingredients like thinly sliced fennel andbasilto round it out, the end result produces high-quality taste from low-lift effort.

食谱本身非常简单，只有两个步骤和相对较短的杂货清单。您需要特级橄榄油；两个一磅重的新鲜披萨面团球（跨流或平原）；jarred披萨酱（例如Rao's）；预剪的马苏里拉奶酪；Salami，Soppressata或辣的意大利香肠；小葱或茴香灯泡；磨碎的帕尔玛干酪或佩科里诺·罗曼诺奶酪；压碎的茴香种子；片状海盐; and finally, fresh baby greens or herb leaves. When I made it, I used afennelbulb in place of the spring onion, and grabbed salami, capicola,andhot soppressata for my toppings. (What can I say? I’m a sucker for deli meat.)

您需要做的第一个也是最关键的事情是确保您的比萨饼球达到室温。如果它们甚至有点酷，请将它们放在柜台上更长的时间。否则，您会发现当您尝试在烤盘上拉伸时，它们会立即恢复到原始尺寸，这非常令人沮丧。（这发生在我身上。我不自豪地承认我尖叫。）

Once they’re ready, prep an 18- x 13-inch rimmedbaking sheet—or two baking sheets, if you only have smaller ones like I did—and grease them with the olive oil. Then, add the pizza dough and gently stretch it out with your hands until it reaches (close to) the edges. If you’re using one sheet, put one dough ball on either side and stretch them so they each cover one half and you can merge them together; if you’re using two separate sheets, put one ball on each and stretch them as much as you can without creating a crust that’s too thin or broken.

The only other major prep work needed is to thinly slice the fennel or spring onion, which takes all of two minutes. After that’s done and the dough is stretched, you’re all set to build. Start with thetomato sauce，在面团顶部撒上均匀的层；然后，跟进一阵切碎的马苏里拉奶酪。接下来，在肉上堆放肉和切成薄片的茴香/春洋葱，然后再添加终点 -Parmesanand the fennel seeds.

Now, for cook time. Our recipe suggests 25 minutes in a blisteringly hot 500°F oven, which produces a healthily blackened, ultra-crispy crust. However, if you like it to lean more golden and slightly chewy, I cooked my pizzas for 18 minutes to delicious results. The crust had a nice crunch, but was still doughy and fluffy inside; the meat and cheese on top had reached a melty, savory union. With a final sprinkle of sea salt and fresh torn basil, I had a pretty impressive dinner that, all-things considered, had really only taken me about 20 minutes to make, barring baking time.

I can’t compare it to takeout—they’re two entirely different entities to me, and there are specific types of pizza I'd prefer to order versus make (hello, chicken bacon ranch), and vice versa. But the next time I have a craving, I’ll definitely think twice about picking up the phone, and maybe grab my sheet pan instead.

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