1 Pizza stone/Pizza steel/Pizza Pan Also optional for cooking your pizza in your indoor oven
1 Cutting board
1 Pizza Cutter
Ingredients
Pizza Ingredients
1pre-made pizza crustEither use a pre-made dough or refer to one of our dough recipes such as our Rye Pizza dough: https://satisfyingslice.com/rye-pizza-dough/
2tbspolive oildivided
5ouncesrib eye steakthinly sliced
½Green bell peppersliced
¼Onionsliced
¼cupMushroomsthinly sliced or diced
2pinchssaltto taste
2pinchsground black pepperto taste
½cupCheez Whiz(best at room temperature)
¼cupProvolone cheesegrated
Instructions
Preheat your oven to the temperature recommended for your dough.
Prepare Your Ingredients.
Make sure all of your ingredients are ready before you stretch out your dough. Have the meat sliced, veggies sliced and dried, the cheese grated, etc.
The ingredient ratios in the recipe assume a pizza that's 12 inches in diameter. So adjust either your dough weight OR your ingredients, if necessary.
Saute Your Toppings
Heat 1 tbsp of olive oil in a skillet at medium-high heat.
Add the onion, green pepper, and mushrooms plus a pinch of salt and pepper together in the skillet over medium-high heat, until onions begin to turn translucent – approximately 4 minutes.
Remove from the skillet.
Add the beef slices and probably a splash of olive oil to the skillet.
Season with salt and pepper, and saute for 3-4 minutes, until just starting to brown.
Remove from the heat.
Prepare Your Dough
Stretch or roll out your pizza dough on a floured surface.
Place the dough on your peel or pizza pan.
Parbake the Pizza
Because spreading the Cheez Whiz can tear your dough, this pizza benefits from parbaking it - which means partially cooking it.
Depending on your pizza recipe and cooking temperature, the length of time for parbaking will vary.
I recommend parbaking for 1/3 of the total cooking time. So if your dough recipe says 18 minutes, parbake for 6, then take it out to top it. If it's a Neapolitan at 800+ degrees, you can parbake for about 30 seconds.
Top Your Pizza
Remove the pizza from the oven and put on a heat-resistant surface.
Spread a thin, even layer of the room temperature Cheez Whiz over the dough, leaving about 1 inch of crust uncovered.
Distribute the sliced beef and sauted vegetables evenly across the pizza.
Top it off with the grated Provolone cheese for that irresistible melty finish.
Finish the Bake
Transfer the topped pizza back to the oven.
Continue to bake for the remaining 2/3 of the time (per the dough recipe), and until the crust is golden and the cheese is bubbly on top, and the crust underneath is browned and firm.
Allow the pizza to rest on a cutting board for 3 to 5 minutes.
Slice and serve immediately!
Notes
Parbaking: cook the dough for 1/3 of the total time without the toppings on it to make sure it's more resistant to the moisture from the dressing.