Let’s make Fridays official pizza days. Let’s have said pizza for dinner, lunch and leave that last piece for breakfast the next day. This thick crust beer pizza is made with a beer pizza dough. That gives this pizza the extra airiness that you just couldn’t get in just 2 hours. The yeast in the beer and the yeast in the bread work together really well.
Now, to top a thick crust beer pizza you could choose pretty much anything. I made 3 different pizzas. One with salami, one just with mozzarella and pesto, and the third one with mozzarella, spinach, and parmesan. The variations are endless. You can put pretty much anything on this pizza. I kept it simple and with just a few ingredients I already had in the fridge. But you could put anchovies, burrata, mushrooms, caramelized onions, artichokes, sun-dried tomatoes, prosciutto, and much more on a pizza.
To be honest, I am not a very big fan of pizzas, but sometimes they are just the thing the doctor prescribed. When ordering takeout I would be disappointed ninety percent of the time with what came, but when you make your own pizza, you just know it is going to be great. This thick crust beer pizza is perfect for some late-night movie watching and pairing it with more beer. You might think that the taste would be overpowering. If you don’t like the taste of beer in anything in general, then this will not be your dream recipe. But once you bake it and place on some really nice toppings, you don’t really notice, besides, it tastes more like a yeasty dough, not plain beer.
I think it is time to start this weekend with a great pizza and watch something nice and feel-good for a change.
Thick crust beer pizza
Ingredients
Beer pizza dough
- 430 g flour
- 1 tsp dry yeast
- 350 ml light beer
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Toppings
- 250 g fresh mozzarella
- 100 g swiss cheese
- 100 g salami
- 100 g tomato paste
- 1 tbsp pesto
- 50 g parmesan
Instructions
- Make the dough, it will be quite wet and shaggy
- Drizzle with olive oil and cover with a wet towel
- Let rest in a warm place for 2 hours
- Preheat your oven to 230°C
- Divide the dough into 3 parts (depending on your pan size)
- Oil a cast iron pan or a pizza pan
- Place one of the dough pieces and flatten out
- Put on your toppings
- Bake for 15 minutes