Garlic Butter Pan Pizza
A thick, fluffy pan pizza with a garlic butter brushed crust. Think Pizza Hut, but actually good.
Recipe by Priya Patel · Published · Updated
This is the pizza you make when you have time to wait for dough to rise but not enough to start a Neapolitan project. Press it into a cast-iron pan in the morning, top it in the afternoon, eat it for dinner. The garlic butter brushed into the pan creates the fried-bottom crust that distinguishes a real pan pizza from a lazy frozen-pizza imitation. Brush more garlic butter on the exposed crust after baking — that's the move.
Ingredients
Dough
- •1 batch Pan pizza dough
Garlic Butter
- •3 tbsp Butter, melted
- •3 cloves Garlic, minced
- •1 tsp Dried Italian herbs
Toppings
- •200g Tomato sauce
- •250g Low-moisture mozzarella
- •30g, grated Parmigiano
How to Make Garlic Butter Pan Pizza
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Instructions
- 1
Mix garlic butter: melt butter, add minced garlic and herbs.
- 2
Brush garlic butter generously into cast iron or sheet pan.
- 3
Press dough into pan, cover, let rise 30-45 min.
- 4
Add sauce, mozzarella, and parmigiano.
- 5
Bake at 475°F for 18-22 minutes until golden and bubbly.
- 6
Brush exposed crust edges with more garlic butter after baking.
Tips
- →The garlic butter in the pan creates the crispy, golden bottom
- →Cast iron gives the best crust
- →Don't skip the post-bake garlic butter brush
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