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Simple Potato Pizza Recipe with Cracked Pepper

This potato pizza recipe is simple to make and crazy delicious. Everyone in our family chooses it over red sauce pizza every time!
Prep Time 15 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

Homemade Wheat Pizza Dough

  • 1 1/4 cups warm water
  • 2.5 tsp active dry yeast
  • 2 Tbsp sugar or honey
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Potato Pizza Assembly

  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 4-6 Yukon gold potatoes, thinly sliced (no need to peel)
  • 3-4 cups shredded whole milk mozzarella cheese (low moisture preferred) I highly recommend shredding your own, as the pre-shredded kind is coated so that it doesn't stick, which prevents it from melting as well.
  • Bit of freshly grated Parmesan cheese to dust the top
  • Freshly grated sea salt and black pepper

Instructions
 

Make the pizza dough.

  • You can make the pizza dough in the morning, refrigerate it, and pull it out of the fridge 2-2.5 hours before you're ready to bake it. You can also make the pizza dough about 1-2 hours before you'd like to bake it, depending on how warm it is.
  • Pour warm water into the bowl of a stand mixer. Add yeast. Wait until it is foamy, about 5 minutes. Mix with the whisk attachment a minute or so until frothy.
  • Add sugar or honey, salt, and olive oil.
  • Add wheat flour. Mix with whisk attachment on medium for about 3-4 minutes to build up gluten. Switch to the dough hook.
  • Add 1.5. cups all-purpose flour. Knead with dough hook for 5-6 minutes on medium until supple and smooth and in the form of a ball.
  • Grease a bowl (I usually use the same mixing bowl and just take the dough out for a second to grease the bowl, then plop the dough back in), place the dough inside, cover, and wait to rise for about 1-2 hours until doubled in size.
  • Preheat oven to 550F.

Make the pizza.

  • While the dough is rising, wash and very thinly slice your potatoes. You can do this with a mandoline or simply slice them as thinly as possible with a knife.
  • Shred cheese.
  • When the dough has risen, separate into two balls. Roll out one on a piece of parchment paper on a pizza peel, gently stretching into a circle.
  • Brush dough with olive oil.
  • Lay out potato circles in concentric circles, leaving 1/2" around the edge. Cover with cheese.
  • If you have a pizza stone, slide the parchment paper directly onto the stone. If not, slide it onto a baking sheet. Bake for 5-7 minutes, until cheese is bubbling and slightly browned.
  • Grate a bit of Parmesan cheese over the top. Grind several turns of sea salt and black pepper.
Keyword Pizza