Grilled Pizza... Yes on a grill outside and no it won't fall through the grates. Trust me

Grilled Pizza!!

Yes you can do this!!!

One of my favorite things to do during the summer is to grill pizza. In fact I do pizza on the grill so much during the summer that I'm pretty sure every time I do a big grocery shopping trip I pick up stuff to make it. Anytime I tell people that I cook my pizza on the grill I always get confused looks so I thought I'd do a photo step by step tutorial on how to do it. It really does taste amazing it reminds me a lot of brick oven pizza, so until I get my brick oven built (yes I really do want to build one in my backyard) we will have to just enjoy our pizza cooked on the grill. One last thing before I go on. I use our gas grill I've never tried it on the charcoal because I'm always worried about the coals being too hot but if you are a charcoal master I know you could make it work on there. Who knows maybe I will get over it and try it soon.

First you need to make your dough. I don't ever buy the box or bag dough mixes at the store. Pizza dough is so easy to make and it tastes soooo much better that I just make it from scratch.  You could easily make the dough the night or day before and let it sit in the fridge until you are ready for it. This is the recipe I use http://americanfood.about.com/od/pizzainsideandout/r/nypd.htm

Once your dough is ready roll it out to whatever size. Sometimes I do one or two big pizzas sometimes I let everyone make their own and do a bunch of little pizzas

Next transfer your dough to the hot grill and turn the grill down to lowish. I've used everything from a cutting cutting board or cookie sheet to just rolling the dough around the rolling pin and unrolling it onto the grill. The rolling pin method has actually been my method of choice lately. One days I will have one of those fancy pizza peels.

Once the dough has set up and is as dark as you want it take it off the grill and flip it so the grill marks are on top. You can top it however you want, right now I've been on a taco pizza kick. Actually that is what I will be making for supper tonight.

Place your pizza back on the grill and shut the lid to finish cooking. And that is really all their is to it. A couple of things I forgot to mention. I do not spray my grill with anything before I put the dough on. You can if you think you need to but I've never had it stick. To get the pizza off the grill I will either use a big bbq flipper or will slide a cutting board (or my pizza peel when I get one) under the pizza and lift it off.

Once cheese is melted it is all done and ready to eat.

I really hope you give the a shot it really isn't hard at all and I think you will really enjoy it. I very rarely use my oven for pizza anymore even in the winter but in the summer it's really nice to not have to heat your house up on pizza night.

Tish