Need some pizza night ideas? Here’s an idea that’s so simple but tastes like it’s from your favorite pizza joint: this red pepper pizza with feta and oregano! First stir together our famous easy pizza sauce, which requires just 5 ingredients for its garlicky tomato flavor. Then top with mozzarella cheese, jarred roasted red pepper strips and salty feta cheese. Baked until the crust is golden and showered with fresh oregano, it’s one unforgettable pie.
Ingredients for red pepper pizza
This red pepper pizza is quick and easy: the model of Italian simplicity! Here at A Couple Cooks we’ve eaten a lot of great pizza in the US and Italy, and what we’ve found is this: the best topping combinations are the simplest. There’s a reason that margherita pizza is the world’s favorite! All you need are a few quality ingredients to make magic. Here’s what you’ll need for this recipe:
Best Pizza Dough Homemade Pizza Sauce Shredded mozzarella cheese (whole milk if possible) Feta cheese crumbles Jarred roasted red peppers Fresh oregano
For the pizza dough
The trick to the best red pepper pizza? Homemade pizza dough. There are several options for dough depending on your preferences and what tools you have available. The first recipe is our standard, but the others are great alternatives.
Best Pizza Dough: The standard! This is our best oven pizza dough and works best on a pizza stone. Thin Crust Pizza Dough: It’s easy and you can roll it out instead of stretching it. Pizza Oven Dough: Got a pizza oven? This is the dough recipe for you.
There are a few other styles of pizza dough that also work here. You can try a Pan Pizza in a cast iron skillet, no special pizza tools required. Or, make our Best-Ever Sheet Pan Pizza: it makes a double recipe in a large sheet pan, perfect for serving a crowd.
Pizza making tools
You’ll need a few tools if you choose the standard or thin crust dough recipes. Again, if you chose the pan pizza or sheet pan pizza recipes above, no extra tools are needed!
Pizza stone: High temperatures make the crust crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside. Here’s the pizza stone we recommend, and a bit more on how to care for it. Pizza peel: A peel is a paddle used to slide a pie onto the hot stone in the oven. We recommend this standard pizza peel or this conveyor pizza peel. Pizza oven (optional): Want to make next level pizza? Try an outdoor pizza oven! We own and have extensive experience with both the Ooni pizza oven and the ROCCBOX (the ROCCBOX is our favorite). We used a pizza oven to get the charred crust you see in the photos.
Red pepper pizza topping variations
There are lots more fun pizza toppings to add to this red pepper pizza, if you’d like to get more creative! Here are a few ideas for flavors that would pair well:
Red pepper sauce (use it instead of the homemade pizza sauce) Goat cheese or ricotta cheese, in dollops Asiago or Pecorino cheese Olives Sausage crumbles Basil Thyme Hot honey Artichoke hearts Spinach (sauteed or frozen thawed) Red onion slices
What do you plan to put on your red pepper pizza? Let us know if you follow the recipe below or get creative with more toppings!
More pizza recipes
Love pizza? Here are some of our top pizza recipes to try:
Go for a classic Homemade Margherita Pizza Try these 20 Popular Pizza Toppings Opt for White Pizza (Pizza Bianca) or Classic Burrata Pizza Try a Cheese Pizza, Taco Pizza, Seafood Pizza or Broccoli 3 Cheese Pizza Go for Olive Pizza, Quattro Formaggi Pizza, or Gluten Free Pizza
This red pepper pizza is…
Vegetarian. 5 from 1 review
