Here are our top 12 favourite pizza toppings! This list will continue to grow, at which point I'll start creating separate recipes for each pizza. For now, enjoy this handy 12-in-1 list! Also see - homemade pizza dough (dough and cooking) and pizza sauce recipe. No yeast? No worries! Make this Magic No Yeast Pizza Dough.
Preheat oven to 275°C/530°F, or as high as it will go. Place oven shelf in top third of oven.
Stretch dough to form pizza base and slide onto baking pan.
Follow topping directions below, then place in oven.
Turn pizza at 4 minutes so it cooks evenly, and check at 8 minutes (even if recipe says 10 minutes). Take out early if cheese gets too brown.
Pepperoni
Spread pizza sauce over base, followed by cheese.
Distribute pepperoni over pizza, and bake.
Supreme
Spread pizza sauce over base, followed by cheese.
Scatter remaining ingredients over pizza, and bake.
Ham & Pineapple
Spread pizza sauce over base, followed by cheese.
Scatter remaining ingredients over pizza, and bake.
BBQ Meatlovers
Spread barbecue sauce over base, followed by cheese.
Scatter remaining ingredients over pizza, and bake.
Garlic Butter Prawns & Chilli
Toss prawns/shrimp with salt.
Heat butter over medium heat in a skillet or heavy frying pan until frothing. Add garlic and cook for another 30 seconds.
Cook prawns for 1 minute on one side until just starting to brown. Flip prawns, cook 1 minute more and remove. Reserve garlic butter.
Spread pizza sauce over base, followed by cheese.
Scatter remaining ingredients except rocket over pizza, top with prawns. Bake until done.
Drizzle reserved garlic butter over prawns and scatter with rocket.
Sausage & Kale
Spread pizza sauce over base, followed by cheese.
Scatter remaining ingredients over pizza, and bake. (Note 2)
Margherita
Spread pizza sauce over base. Drizzle 1 tbsp of oil over base, and bake.
After 5 minutes, remove pizza from oven. Tear buffalo mozzarella into 10 pieces and distribute over pizza. Continue baking until pizza is done.
Drizzle with remaining olive oil, and scatter with basil leaves.
Capricciosa
Spread pizza sauce over base, followed by cheese.
Scatter remaining ingredients over pizza, and bake.
Quattro Formaggio (Four Cheese Pizza)
Spread mozzarella cheese over base. Scatter provolone, parmesan and finally blue cheese over pizza. Bake.
Prosciutto & Rocket
Spread pizza sauce over base, followed by cheese. Drizzle 1 tbsp oil over pizza and bake.
2 minutes before the pizza is done, remove from oven. Drape prosciutto casually around the pizza.
Continue baking until done. Scatter rocket over pizza and drizzle with a little more olive oil.
Cheese & Garlic
Spread pizza sauce over base, followed by cheese.
Scatter remaining ingredients over pizza, taking special care to spread the garlic very well so you don't have big clumps, and bake.
Potato & Rosemary
Spread mozzarella cheese over base.
Arrange potato slices over pizza, each slice overlapping no more than 1/3 so it will cook through properly.
Sprinkle over the rosemary and salt, and drizzle with the olive oil. Bake for the standard cooking time given. Check with a fork or skewer that the potato is tender. If not fully cooked, cook another 2 minutes.
Notes
1. Cheese - best to freshly grate cheese for pizza, it melts better and you get better coverage (store bought is usually thicker batons so you need more for same coverage = weighs down pizza. Also covered in anti caking agent which affects melting quality)2. Sausage - Raw sausage balls so little, will cook at the high oven temps. If you're concerned, you can just "crumble" raw sausage all over the pizza instead, but pizza shops do little balls. Better to cook sausage on pizza because the sausage drips flavour!