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Grilled Pesto Pizzas are smothered in pesto sauce and sprinkled with feta cheese and fresh tomatoes, and grilled to perfection. Pizza night never looked so good!
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Ingredients in Grilled Pesto Pizza
For the dough:
- Quick rising yeast packets
- Salt
- Sugar
- Olive oil
- Water
- Flour
For the topping:
- Pesto sauce
- Feta cheese
- Tomatoes
- Dried basil
- Salt
- Pepper
Tips for Grilling Pizza
In the summertime, grilled pizzas are the way to go. You don’t have to heat up the house with a hot oven, plus you get a great, grilled flavor. You just can’t get that kind of flavor from a regular oven. If you are intimidated by grilling pizzas, DON’T BE. It’s not scary. It’s actually REALLY easy and once you try it, you will never go back to baking pizzas in the oven (at least during the summer). Need some help getting started with grilling pizzas? Here are a few tips:
- Clean your grill grate: When grilling pizza, you want to use a clean grill grate. This will prevent sticking. Plus, you don’t want bits of last week’s burgers on your pizzas. Give your grates a good scrape and you will be good to go.
- Preheat the Grill: Another way to prevent sticking. You want the grate hot before putting the pizza on or it will stick.
- Use Olive Oil: Brush your dough with a little olive oil before putting on the grill. This also helps prevent sticking.
- Have Your Ingredients Ready to Go: Have everything chopped, grated, peeled, opened, and ready to go. It’s a quick process and you want to get those toppings on right away.
- Use a Pizza Spatula and Pizza Peel: These are to help assist in flipping the pizzas and getting them off the grill. Your best deal out there is the Pizza Accessory Kit from Camp Chef. This includes 2 pizza peels, a pizza spatula AND a rocking pizza cutter for under $50. This kit makes a great gift! I just have to add that the rocking pizza cutter is like the best thing ever.
Questions About Pesto Pizza
Grilled chicken, grilled salmon, grilled steak, and grilled shrimp all pair really well with pesto. Experiment and enjoy!
You could do any number of combinations with mushrooms, cauliflower, kale, olives, fresh basil, capers, anchovies, sun-dried tomatoes, goat cheese, avocado, prosciutto, grilled red peppers, and nuts.
Fresh basil should be added after the pizza has cooked, dried basil can be added before or after.
Read more: Our Favorite Grill Recipes
More Grill Recipes To Try
Once you’ve fired up your grill, there’s no end to the delicious recipes you can make. Try a few of our favorites, hot off the grill:
- Grilled Avocado Quesadillas
- Ranch Potatoes in Foil on the Grill
- Grilled Steak Street Tacos
- Grilled Caribbean Shish Kabobs
- Coconut Curry Grilled Chicken
How to Make Grilled Pesto Pizzas
Grilled Pesto Pizzas
Equipment
- Outdoor Barbecue Grill
Ingredients
For the Dough:
- 2 ¼ ounce packets Quick Rising Yeast (or ½ ounce)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup hot water
Mix together then add:
- 3 cups flour
Topping:
- 1 cup Pesto Sauce we use the big bottle from Costco
- 1 cup Feta cheese tomato and basil flavor
- 4 tomatoes sliced
- dried basil to taste
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Knead dough for 1 minute then divide into 8 balls.
- Roll out into individual pizzas and layer on a plate divided by wax paper.
- Let dough rise for about 20 minutes.
- Grill on medium heat.
- After the first side is done flip and top with pesto and feta.
- When fully cooked, remove from heat and add tomato slices and season with basil, salt, and pepper.
Video
Notes
- Roasted red pepper
- Nuts
- Goat cheese
- Sun-dried tomatoes
- Olives
- Anchovies
- Capers
- Balsamic glaze
- Mushrooms
- Kale
- Prosciutto
Nutrition Information
This is such a fresh tasting pizza and I love pesto!!!
This pizza looks amazing! Can’t wait to try it with my family!
The pesto on this is so tasty! Loved it with the cheese!
I never tried such kind of pizza yet. It looks very tempted. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
i like the sound of this dish and want to try it, but i would like to cook the dough in the oven could you tell me what tempture i could cook them at and for how long, then i would put the toppings on than freeze them, than all i would like to do is take one out and heat it up. please could you email me on this.
I’m not exactly sure how you would do this, as tomatoes do not freeze well. It would almost be more efficient to use flatbread if you are wanting just a quick meal. Hope this helps!
Amazing! Great party idea too, Next BBQ can not be without, Thank you! Love the Blog
Awesome! I'm seriously going to have to try grilling my pizza. Thanks a million times over for your incredible ideas and recipes!!