This is a very frugal and fun meal, and it feeds all nine of us. The kids love it, too, because they get to make it themselves.
It really doesn’t take any longer than ordering a pizza and waiting for it to be delivered, but it saves us about $20!
First, I make the pizza dough. (I double this for our family of nine.)
Here’s the fun part!
I pinch off a hunk for each child and they pat it out on greased trays.
Then I set out these toppings in bowls for them to choose from:
marinara sauce* (You can used canned spaghetti sauce.)
cheese sauce
shredded cheddar
shredded mozzarella
pepperoni
pineapple chunks
bacon bits
olives
chopped bell peppers
Each child tops his own pizza. They have fun making smiley faces or flowers with the toppings. Some even do a stuffed crust. They absolutely love this!
Bake at 425 for 15 – 20 minutes until golden and bubbly.
*5 Minute Marinara Sauce
2 Tbsp. olive oil
4 cloves garlic, crushed and chopped
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
2 Tbsp. parsley
1/2 tsp. oregano
1 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes
1 8 oz. can tomato sauce
salt and pepper
Heat oil and garlic. When garlic starts to sizzle, add herbs and crushed pepper. Stir in rest of ingredients. Bring to a bubble, reduce heat, and simmer.
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Thanks for sharing this! I have not yet found a pizza crust recipe I really like and is easy enough to make. I’m going to try yours!
My wife makes fantastic thin crust pizza we hardly ever order pizza out because of it.
I will try this sometime this week, I will! Bookmarked
Thank you.
I love homemade pizza!! I do it at LEAST once a month. I think I’m going to try your sauce recipe – thanks!
Awesome! My kids love making their own personal pizza with the toppings they like.
Gonna try your recipe now!
We love homemade pizzas in the house, they taste so yummy and you can really get creative on them!
my kids love my pizza better than dominos and so that makes me feel really good and it is fun to make all at the same time!
I haven’t tried this pizza recipe before! I’ll have to give it a shot.
Terrific idea. We have had homemade pizza night regularly, but do it the boring way. Mommy makes several large pizzas with kids helping with toppings. They would really love to top their own individual pizza! Great idea Connie!
Thanks.
Blessings,
Kimberly
we also love home made pizza. I’m bookmarking this for your sauce recipe as I’m still tweaking mine. thanks!
I’m going to try this for sure! I usually make my pizza dough in the bread machine, but it takes 1.5 hours! This sounds great, and my girls would love helping out.
We love making our own pizzas!
Yeah for pizza! It’s one of our favorite meals.
Can you please email me? I have no doubt I will not be able to find this post again to check your answer..LOL
If you are using this dough to make regular sized pizzas, how many of those can you make out of the amount posted..or the amount YOU use?
And, do you possibly have any pictures of the finished pizza so that I can see how the crust does?
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We use a recipe very similar…we are total pizza people and eat it about once a week. There are just so many varieties…breakfast, taco, bbq, pepperoni, ital. sausage, cheeses, etc. We love to be creative!
Don’t have a food processor any idea what else can be done in place of food processor. Thanks for sharing. My granddaughters will be coming for the summer sounds like a fun project for us.
My daughter (6) has decided she doesn’t like cheese especially melted. I can’t wrap my head around pizza w/o cheese…CAN you have a pizza w/o cheese?
Also, I don’t have a food processor…can you make this by hand? Or with a blender?
We tried this with a big family gathering and it was a huge hit! I made the crust the hard way with a wooden spoon and my hands, but it came together great! Only thing we added a little more oil about 1 T more. It was so easy! I usually skip anything needing yeast and for the first time ever I made something with yeast and it didn’t fall flat! Thank you for sharing this!
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