Home Grilled Pizza

Yes, you read that right.  Grilled pizza.  It's about the best pizza I've ever had (well, maybe besides all the yummy pizzas I had while in Italy). We used to watch a show with Alton Brown called Good Eats, and he did a show on grilled Pizza once.  Anupam knew right away he had to try it. 

Thank goodness it was a weekend and we just happened to have some bread dough in the fridge (it's a staple at our house).  I promptly started rolling out the dough, while Anupam heated the grill. 

I eyeballed the other ingredients we had on hand: sliced ham, fresh mozzarella, olives, tomato sauce, basil, onions...yep, we had enough to make a really fine pizza.

The trick, according to Alton Brown, is the really heat up the grill nice and hot - 450 - 500 degrees or so.  Roll out the dough and grill it on one side for about 2-3 minutes and then do the other side.  Take it off, load it up and return it to the grill just long enough to melt the cheese.

We actually prefer to grill on side the dough, remove it from the grill and flip it over so the side that hasn't been grilled is down.  (It is usually already mostly cooked, just not browned yet).  We load up our pizza, just sticking to a few toppings to help each individual flavor really stand out and then put it back on the grill, long enough to grill the bottom and also melt the cheese.  It is truly just heaven.

It was amazingly quick (certainly faster than delivery) and I don't think we'll order delivery ever again...