50+ Homemade Pizza Recipes Your Family Will Love

April 16, 2020
Why order delivery when you can make the best pizza ever in your own kitchen? We've got traditional pizzas (this Classic Cast Iron Pizza Pie is always a winner), we've got unique pizzas (if you've never tried a Sushi Pizza, tonight's the night), heck, we've even got breakfast pizzas (because why not?). The point is, your whole family will love this collection of homemade pizza recipes. 
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Sausage and Kale Pesto Pizza

Photo: Alison Miksch; Prop Styling: Mary Clayton Carl; Food styling: Karen Rankin
Sausage and Kale Pesto Pizza Recipe

Switch things up for family pizza night and enjoy a healthy pesto based option. Instead of the usual tomato sauce, this tasty deep-dish pizza is topped with a vibrant green pesto made with fresh basil and kale. This deep-dish pizza is made in your favorite cast-iron skillet. Don’t skip preheating the cast-iron skillet, which helps create a nice crisp crust.

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Homemade Pizza Dough

Photo: Alison Miksch; Styling: Heather Chadduck Hillegas
Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe
Skip store-bought, frozen pizza and make homemade pizza dough from scratch. This perfectly chewy pizza crust recipe, from our friends at Real Simple, is an easy way to make pizza night a whole lot more fun for the whole family. This delicious, savory crust will elevate your pizza to rock-star status.

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Sausage-and-Shrimp Pizzas with Spinach-Basil Pesto

Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall
Sausage-and-Shrimp Pizzas with Spinach-Basil Pesto Recipe

Shrimp might seem like an unusual pizza topper, but they couldn’t be more delicious when paired with smoky sausage and a bright and fresh pesto. When you’re at the seafood counter, choose medium shrimp (43 to 50 typically come in a pound). They are best for these grilled pizzas because they won’t overcook or undercook.

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Beef Stroganoff Pizza

Caitlin Bensel; Food Styling: Katelyn Hardwick; Prop Styling: Claire Spollen
Beef Stroganoff Pizza Recipe
If you’ve ever looked for a reason to try beef stroganoff with something besides egg noodles, this is it. The beef, mushrooms, and sour cream’s flavors really sing here, while just the right amount of garlic and onion and lots of cheese round everything out.

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Pineapple Pizza Bites

Meredith Food Studios 
Pineapple Pizza Bites Recipe

This easy, 4-ingredient appetizer is a fun and inexpensive way to feed a crowd. They’ve got the greatest balance of sweet and salty thanks to the meat and cheese’s richness, the tomato’s acidity, and the pineapple’s juice. 

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Mac and Cheese Crusted Pizza

Meredith Food Studios 
Mac and Cheese Crusted Pizza Recipe

When two of the world's greatest foods combine...

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Grilled Pizza with Summer Veggies and Smoked Chicken

Photo: Victor Protasio; Food Styling: Tina Bell Stamos; Prop Styling: Christine Keely
Grilled Pizza with Summer Veggies and Smoked Chicken Recipe
Skip store-bought, frozen pizza and make homemade pizza dough from scratch. This perfectly chewy pizza crust recipe, from our friends at Real Simple, is an easy way to make pizza night a whole lot more fun for the whole family. This delicious, savory crust will elevate your pizza to rock-star status.

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Sheet Pan Pizza with Corn, Tomatoes, and Sausage

Photo: Caitlin Bensel; Prop Styling: Claire Spollen; Food Styling: Anna Hampton
Sheet Pan Pizza with Corn, Tomatoes, and Sausage Recipe

We topped this summer pizza with fresh corn, bell peppers, plum tomatoes, and hot Italian sausgae. The sausage and tomatoes cook together to create a rich sauce, which is used as a base for summer corn, peppers, and even more tomatoes. Use fresh pizza dough and par-cook the crust before adding the toppings for the crispiest results.

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Winter Greens Pesto Pizza

Jennifer Causey
Winter Greens Pesto Pizza Recipe

Hearty collard greens pack this pesto with vitamin K, an essential nutrient for bone health. Buttery Castelvetrano olives make any extra pesto perfect for adding big flavor to pasta and grilled cheese sandwiches; substitute any green olive if you can’t find them.

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Sausage Baguette Pizzas

Jennifer Causey
Sausage Baguette Pizzas Recipe

Your favorite throwback after-school snack gets a healthy makeover courtesy of a whole-grain baguette crust and vitamin A–packed spinach. Use mild sausage to make it kid-friendly.

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Roasted Butternut Squash and Poblano Pizza

Caitlin Bensel
Roasted Butternut Squash and Poblano Pizza Recipe

This Mexican-inspired twist on flatbread is packed with oven-roasted veggies, delivering almost a third of your daily fiber goal. Buy precubed butternut squash to trim down your prep time; swap goat cheese for the queso fresco, if you prefer.

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Thai Chicken Pizza

Greg DuPree
Thai Chicken Pizza Recipe

Part of the joy of this easy-to-make weeknight meal is that you get to repurpose leftovers—make the French Onion Roast Chicken the night before, and you'll have enough delicious meat to make both this, and Chicken and Herb Crêpes the night after. 

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Classic Cast Iron Pizza Pie

Jennifer Causey
Classic Cast Iron Pizza Pie Recipe

Nostalgic cast iron pies are back in style, like this cheesy, chewy example piled high with pepperoni, spicy Italian sausage, and extra mozz. The only thing missing from this throwback from the ‘80s pizza taverns of yore: some faux wood paneling, a red-checkered tablecloth, and maybe a stand-up arcade game in the corner.

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Cheesy Rye Pizza

Photo: Greg Dupree; Food Styling: Margaret Dickey and Elise Mayfield; Prop Styling: Kay Clarke and Laura Evans
Cheesy Rye Pizza Recipe

This white pie is a mouthwatering celebration of how great rye and cheese taste together. Be sure to allow the pizza dough to rise slowly so that it does not become too bready. 

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Be-Still-My-Heart Breakfast Pizza

Photo: Kelsey Hansen; Food Styling: Blakeslee Giles; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis
Be-Still-My-Heart Breakfast Pizza Recipe
As delicious as cold, last-night's pizza can be for breakfast, some occasions call for a little something extra. Perfectly cooked eggs, tender heart-shaped dough with a crisp bottom, and traditional hot Italian sausage make the cutest morning pizza.
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Cheesy Stuffed Pizza Crust Ring

Photo: Aaron Kirk; Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland; Food Styling: Robin Bashinsky
Cheesy Stuffed Pizza Crust Ring Recipe
You know how as soon as you grow into a fully formed adult human, you realize that the best part of a delivery pizza is the part you’ve been foolishly tossing aside (for your parents to eventually graze on)? Well we decided to make up for lost years by making this cheesy stuffed crust ring, no pizza necessary.

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Lasagna Pizza

Photo: Aaron Kirk; Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland; Food Styling: Robby Melvin
Lasagna Pizza Recipe

It’s certainly not the first pasta-pizza partnership we’ve tried, but we dare say—Lasagna Pizza might just be the best. 

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Supreme Pizza Pie

Time Inc. Video Studios
Supreme Pizza Pie Recipe

As it turns out, loading all of the cheesy supreme pizza goodness into a flaky crust makes for one supremely delicious pot pie.

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French Dip Pizza

Photo: Aaron Kirk; Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland; Food Styling: Robin Bashinsky
French Dip Pizza Recipe
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why more foods aren’t on the same level of richly beefy, cheesy, and savory divinity as a French dip sandwich—friend, you are not alone. In fact, that’s exactly why we channeled everything worth loving about the French dip experience into this meaty masterpiece of a pizza, complete with rich dipping jus.

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Extra-Crispy Veggie-Packed Pizza

Caitlin Bensel
Extra-Crispy Veggie-Packed Pizza Recipe

Our taste testers loved this pizza’s crunchy crust and zingy zucchini salad, but the real hero was the halloumi—a dry, salty cheese similar to feta (which you could sub if you can’t find halloumi). Sodium amounts vary among brands, so check the label.

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Turkey Burger Pizza

Caitlin Bensel
Turkey Burger Pizza Recipe
Craving burgers and pizza tonight? Treat your family to both with this wholesome mash-up. Whole-wheat pizza dough provides a fiber-rich base for lean ground turkey and a bounty of toppings. Pickles, tomatoes, and lettuce piled on top make this tasty main dish fun to eat for kids and parents alike.
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Lobster Roll Pizza  

Photo: Kelsey Hansen; Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland; Food Styling: Rishon Hanners
Lobster Roll Pizza   Recipe
If you’re looking for a pie to impress, this lobster pizza is a must-make. The buttery, crisp crust topped with a rich cheese blend and brightened with a vibrant mix of fresh herbs, lemon zest, garlic, and celery serves as the perfect bed for decadent Maine lobster.

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Sausage and Tomato Mini Pizzas

Caitlin Bensel
Sausage and Tomato Mini Pizzas Recipe

If you’ve got adventurous palates in the family, punch up the flavor of these personal pizzas with a dash of red pepper flakes and briny kalamata olives. Add a veggie- forward side, like a simple salad or roasted broccoli.

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Charred Spring Onion and Baby Artichoke Pizza

Victor Protasio
Charred Spring Onion and Baby Artichoke Pizza Recipe
Getting some deliberately over-browned edges on the onions and artichokes adds wonderful flavor that makes your home-cooked pizza taste as if it came out of a wood-fired oven. When baby artichokes aren’t in season, you can use frozen artichoke hearts; thaw them, cut them into quarters if they’re whole, and char as directed in step 6.
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Zucchini-Pesto-Sausage Pizza

Caitlin Bensel
Zucchini-Pesto-Sausage Pizza Recipe
You can make these vegetable-forward pizzas even more colorful by mixing in yellow squash or yellow bell pepper for half the zucchini. Lose the crushed red pepper if your kids don't like the heat. Ready-to-use prebaked crusts are the secret to getting this pizza to the table quickly.

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Make Delicious Whole-Wheat Pizzas in an Air Fryer

Adam Hickman
Make Delicious Whole-Wheat Pizzas in an Air Fryer Recipe
In addition to delivering crispy delights, your air fryer makes a pretty awesome countertop pizza oven. Thanks to it and this deliciously simple recipe, Friday pizza night just got epically easier. Whole-wheat pitas make a great fiber-forward crust, baking up nice and crisp.

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Individual Smoked Salmon Pizza

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Individual Smoked Salmon Pizza Recipe

Healthy, tasty, and ready in 10 minutes—what more could you ask for in a pizza? The fact that we're talking about a smoked salmon pizza all for you only makes this easy weeknight meal all the more impressive. 

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Hashbrown Breakfast Pizza

Time Inc. Video Studio
Hashbrown Breakfast Pizza Recipe
Should’t the most important meal of the day occasionally take a turn at being the most delicious? We think so; and with this crispy, cheesy breakfast pizza, it can. Utilizing frozen hash browns for the crust, this morning pie is easy to make, ridiculously tasty, and totally portable.

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Cheeseburger Pizza

Time Inc. Video Studio
Cheeseburger Pizza Recipe
This family-friendly recipe celebrates two of our all-time favorite foods in one tasty package. Not to mention, Cheeseburger Pizza is such a fun way to use ground beef when you’re stuck in a weeknight dinner rut. Of course, you could also use grilled burgers and onions in place of the ground beef if you happen to have cookout leftovers.

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Pizza Rolls

Photo: Kelsey Hansen; Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland; Food Styling: Deb Wise
Pizza Rolls Recipe
These tender, buttery snack rolls are akin to cinnamon buns in structure… but they’re full-on pizza perfection in flavor. Using canned crescent roll dough and prepared marinara sauce keeps both the prep time and ingredient list short, making these cheesy, kid-friendly bites easy to whip up at a moment’s notice.
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Sushi Pizza

Time Inc. Video Studio
Sushi Pizza Recipe

Looking for a show-stopping party platter? Look no further; Sushi Pizza is here. This stunning “pizza” is the most fun way to bring sushi night home—no rolling mat required.  

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BLT Pizza with White Sauce

BLT Pizza with White Sauce Recipe

All the components of America's favorite summer sandwich are here--even the mayonnaise. Yes, it turns out adding some oil to the mayo makes a creamy sauce that fully covers the pie and gives a richer taste to the pizza.

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