Making huge homemade pizza can be hard, or, so we thought. Turns out, we just hadn’t tried creating it in an air fryer yet (for pizza)! This fantastic simple recipe yields some of the best pizza to ever come out of our kitchen. The air fryer excels in cooking crust, ours was airy in the center and crunchy on the outside, immediately like in a true pizza oven! We’re beyond hooked, and we think you will be too. Who knew great pizza could be this easy?!
A couple tips for you:
For all time build your pizza inside the air fryer basket. Transferring an already-topped uncooked pizza is… very hard.
Use two pairs of tongs or two (2) spatulas to cautiously remove cooked pizza from the basket. It takes a modest concentration, but the pay off is big: all the toppings stay on the pizza, instead of the bottom of your air fryer.
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Table of Contents
Air Fryer Pizza
INGREDIENTS
2 (8-oz.) packages pizza dough
1 tbsp. Extra virgin olive oil, divided
1/3 c. crushed tomatoes
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tsp. Oregano
salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 (8-oz.) mozzarella ball, cut into ¼ » slices
Basil leaves, for serving
DIRECTIONS
First on a clean, floured surface, kindly flatten ball of dough with your hands until about 8” in diameter or roughly smaller than your air fryer basket. Repeat with second dough ball. Brush both with olive oil and move one, oil side up, into the basket of your air fryer.
In a medium bowl, stir to combine crushed tomatoes, garlic, and oregano. Spoon half tomato mixture onto the center of rolled out pizza dough, after spread into an even layer, leaving ½ » outer crust bare.
Add half of the mozzarella slices to pizza. Air fry on 400° for 10 to twelve (12) minutes, or until crust is golden and cheese is melted.
Remove the first pizza from the air fryer basket using 2 pairs of tongs, and garnish with basil leaves. Assemble and cook second pizza, garnish, and serve.