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Sourdough skillet pizza

Name: Sourdough skillet pizza
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 43 min
Ingredients: 1 lb pizza dough (room temp); 2 tbsp semolina or cornmeal; ¾ cup pizza sauce; 8 oz fresh mozzarella, torn; ¼ cup grated Parmesan; 4 tbsp olive oil; Fresh basil; Flaky salt

Serves 2 servings

Luca Bianchi2 min readSep 16, 2026

Ready in ~43 min · around 2:19 PM

Ripping-hot cast iron, bubbly crust, and toppings that stay crisp — no pizza stone required.

Story

Cast iron gives you a crackly underside the way a deck oven would. I stretch dough directly in the cold pan, build it there, then blast heat from below and the broiler above.

Less is more on toppings so the center sets before the rim burns.

Recipe

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1 lb pizza dough (room temp)
2 tbsp semolina or cornmeal
¾ cup pizza sauce
8 oz fresh mozzarella, torn
¼ cup grated Parmesan
4 tbsp olive oil
Fresh basil
Flaky salt

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Luca Bianchi

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Providence-based. Big on pantry cooking, seasonal produce, and one-pan dinners.

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Used a little less salt — still punched through.

@elena_nguyen

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Elena Nguyen· I cooked this
3 wk ago
Kids cleaned their plates. Rare victory.

Instructions

Step 1Technique
Set oven rack 6 inches from broiler; preheat broiler. Heat a 12-inch cast iron over medium-high with 2 tbsp oil until smoking.
- 4 tbsp olive oil
Step 2Technique
Stretch dough to fit pan; lay in skillet, pull up edges. Sauce, cheese, Parmesan, drizzle remaining oil.
- 1 lb pizza dough (room temp)
- ¾ cup pizza sauce
- ¼ cup grated Parmesan
- 4 tbsp olive oil
Step 3Technique
Cook on stove until underside is speckled, 4–5 minutes. Transfer to oven under broiler until cheese blisters, 3–5 minutes.
- 4 tbsp olive oil
Step 4Technique
Rest 3 minutes. Top with basil and flaky salt. Slice in the pan.
- Fresh basil
- Flaky salt