Gluten Free Pizza Base for Grilled Pizza Crust + VIDEO

Gluten free pizza base cooked on a charcoal or gas grill creates the most amazing grilled gluten free pizza! Grilled pizza crust is crispy and delicious, and so fun to make! Just add your favorite pizza toppings! Learn how to make grilled pizza with this easy gluten free pizza base recipe.

Learning how to eat gluten free doesn’t have to be difficult, and with a little bit of planning ahead, it can be delicious, too!

I have made a few pizza recipes on the blog over the past couple of years. This gluten free flatbread pizza is one of my kids’ favorites. A chef friend loves to use Cup4Cup gluten free flour for his special gluten free pizza that he serves up at Lungomare in Oakland.

Benefits of Grilled Pizza Crust:

What makes this new gluten free pizza base recipe different is that it cooks up on your grill. Grilled pizza crust has two big benefits.

• If it is hot outside, you can skip using the oven. Why heat up your house if you don’t need to?
• The high heat from the grill makes the grilled pizza crust nice and crispy!

This may be my best gluten free pizza base recipe ever. It is so easy to learn how to grill your pizza!

I made a fun video that walks you through all of the steps to make this easy gluten free pizza base recipe. Just follow along for an awesome dinner!

Are you ready to give this grilled pizza crust a try? First, lets make the gluten free pizza base. This pizza dough is probably going to be a lot more firm than what you are used to making. It needs to be more firm to hold up to the grill.

How to Make Gluten Free Pizza Base:

The first step is to proof your yeast so it gets nice and foamy. This helps the pizza crust so that it isn’t so dense.

Slowly add the ingredients into a mixer. (I switched to the dough hook on my Kitchen Aid mixer because it handles the dough the easiest.)

Put the gluten free pizza base dough onto a board and shape into individual pizza crusts.

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Things You Need to Make The Gluten Free Pizza Base Recipe:

1. My favorite gluten free flour blend works really well in this recipe.
2. If you don’t have an electric mixer, use these awesome mixing bowls because their rubber bottoms prevent them from sliding all around the counter.

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Gluten Free Pizza Base for Grilled Pizza Crust

Prep Time

40 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Total Time

50 mins

 

How to make a gluten free pizza base that you can cook on a grill. Makes the BEST gluten free grilled pizza crust!

Course: Main Course, Main Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: gluten free pizza, grilled pizza crust

Servings: 4 people

Calories: 598 kcal

Author: Sandi Gaertner

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cup warm water
• 2 teaspoons yeast
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 2 eggs

Instructions

1. Put the warm water in a bowl with the honey. Add the yeast and allow to sit for 5-10 minutes until if foams up.

2. In a mixer, add the foamy yeast, eggs, and oil. Mix to blend.

3. Change to a dough hook and salt, parmesan cheese and 1/2 cup flour. Mix.

4. Gradually keep adding the flour and mixing it until the dough is in a ball.

5. Take the bowl off the mixer and place plastic wrap over the bowl. Allow it to sit for 30-40 minutes to rise.

6. Remove the plastic wrap and place the dough onto a floured surface. 

7. Preheat your grill to 400 degrees.

8. Break the dough into 4 pieces and flatten to pizza crust shapes.

9. Put the dough onto the grill and close the lid so the dough can cook for 3-5 minutes.

10. Open the lid. Add sauce, cheese and your favorite toppings.

11. Grill until the cheese is melted and the crust looks cooked. Make sure you check the bottom of the crust periodically to ensure it doesn't burn.

Nutrition Facts

Gluten Free Pizza Base for Grilled Pizza Crust

Amount Per Serving (1 g)

Calories 598 Calories from Fat 162

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 18g 28%

Saturated Fat 3g 15%

Polyunsaturated Fat 5g

Monounsaturated Fat 8g

Cholesterol 86mg 29%

Sodium 1012mg 42%

Potassium 204mg 6%

Total Carbohydrates 87g 29%

Dietary Fiber 4g 16%

Sugars 1g

Protein 18g 36%

Vitamin A 3.4%

Calcium 10.3%

Iron 31.8%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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