Homemade Frozen Pizza

[Dace]

I thought I would throw out my frozen pizza way...

I make up and par bake pizza crusts, let them cool then stack in gallon sized ziplocks. I do varying sizes, some small some larger. Then I pop the bags of crust into the freezer.

I whip up a simple sauce...garlic, basil, crushed red pepper a pinch of salt & sugar and canned tomato sauce.....pour into Tupperware type containers and stack into the freezer.

Grate a large block of mozzarella and bag up and also put into the freezer.

When we want pizza, we simply pull out a tub of sauce, a bag of cheese and how ever many crusts we want a few hours before dinner....then we all assemble them with fresh veggies and or pepperoni.

The prep time is less on this way of doing it, of course, you can't just pull it from the freezer and go right to the oven, but we usually have a bag of cheese defrosted in the frig and the sauce holds for a week or two in the frig as well....so it is pretty quick.

 

[tortoise]

Talked to my fiance last night and he doesn't want to top his own pizza, even if the toppings are all ready. To the degree that he BOUGHT Jack's pizza when we were shopping even though there is still a homemade pizza in the freezer and it's on my to-do list this week.

(OK that has more to do with him knowing the reality of my limitations with being bipolar and the high possibility that my brain cooties will pop out and NOTHING will get done this week.)

So I'm going to top them before I freeze them. The only problem I had before is that we have to stand them up to fit them in the freezer - so the pepperonis (and other toppings) slide down.

I think next time I'm going to spray the cheese with water before I put toppings on. Freeze it flat. and it should stick together when it is completely frozen and I stand it up.

 

[Annabelle]

Hello,
I just make the crust, shape it, and bake it til it is just barely 'set' (i.e. there is no raw dough left but it has not yet begun to crisp or brown). Then I cool it on a rack and freeze it (plain). To use, I take it out of the freezer onto a baking pan, apply sauce/cheese/toppings, and pop into a 425-450 F oven til done. So you are putting fresh toppings on the frozen crust and going right into the oven.

 

[dipence71]

Here is what I do:

Made marinara & pizza sauce
9 GF pizza crusts
-3 hamburger,pepperoni, blk olive extra cheese
-6 hamburger,pepperoni, blk olive, green pepper, red onion, mushroom
3 pans of ramano, parmesan, asiago,italian mix, cheesy bread sticks

the kitchen aid and I both got a work out

Recipe for crust: of course I took it times 8

Brown rice flower mix :
6C brown rice flour
2C potato starch
1 C tapioca flour

Pizza Crust recipe:
1 C brown rice flour mix
1/2 C millet flour
1 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
1 packet quick rise yeast
1 tsp olive oil
3/4 C plus 1 TBLS water heat to 110*F
Spray oil & Cornmeal to dust pizza pan ***must use or crust will stick to pan.***

Mix dry ingredients in mixer, pour in olive oil and water mix until combined. Then mix on high for 2 minutes
Spoon dough onto pan and spread with wet spatula to cover pan with even layer. Let rise in warm place for 30-45 minutes. Should about double in height. Cook at 425* for about 15 minutes to prebake. Let cool. Put on toppings of your choice and cook till done or put in a 2 gal freezer bag to freeze then take out and thaw then bake on pizza pan that has holes in bottom to get crisp crust.

I was using aluminum foil wrapped cardboard for strength to freeze but then found dollar tree had good hard aluminum pizza pans so bought 12(so for $12 the price of a good store bought non GF pizza) and freeze in them then remove and put on cooking pan when ready
to cook.

When I took the recipe x4 I used only 1 total pkt yeast and it was just as good instead of 4 pkt yeast but for my cheesy bread sticks I used 1 pkt yeast with each recipe because I wanted them fluffy. Prebake the same way an add whatever flavors u want on it, garlic cheese ect
I used square pan for bread sticks and cut into strips with pizza cutter when done.

Homemade sauce is basically tomato sauce and Italian seasonings to taste simmer 20 minutes the longer it simmers the more the flavors fuse together

For marinara I use tomato sauce and paste and water to desired thickness, I like mine on the thick side. Then add Italian spices garlic adobe seasonings and extra oregano simmer 20 min then add olive oil to taste. Much better with the olive oil in it I think.

Sis in law wanted to have MIL bday dinner and have homemade pizza, bless her heart wanted to try to make one GF for me. I told her I already had some in the freezer and not to worry about it. Later I explained the CC thing with her mixer counters pans ect. But I very much appreciated the thought.

pulled one out of the freezer and YUMMY!!! without all the work, like having a "premade frozen pizza" lol

went to dollar tree and got those round hard alum pizza pans and 2 gal freezer bags and froze like that.

take off reg pan and put on cooking pan (pizza pan with the holes in it makes crust crispy and not gooey)

set in fridge or on counter to thaw
bake at 375 till done

yahhh!!!! worked well and I will do again when pizza's start running low!!!

although I think more & thicker pizza sauce next time would work even better...

 

[CrimsonRose]

I've been making pizza bread and it's been a huge Hit! Hubby loves it even more than digorno (I never thought I would see the day he would pick my good for you food over any of his favorite instant foods!) and the kids love it because I can make it how they like it and they don't get stuck picking all the icky stuff dad likes off their pizza...

First i make up a batch of bread but instead of baking a big loaf for slicing... I roll it out into about 3-4 mini loaves and bake those and leave them in the fridge till we want pizza... then I slice them in half... add a thick layer of garlic butter sauce and toppings... bake on 350 for about 20 mins (I don't preheat so less time if you preheat) It takes about 15mins to slice loaves in half and top them... so not too bad for yummy pizza and I'm also not filling up my freezer with pizza! (I only have the one freezer so need the space for meats and stuff instead of instant foods) but this way I still have the convience of sorta instant foods with a fresh taste and no freezer burn! woot! Hubby likes having pizza sometimes 3-4 times a week so I would either be making them 2-3 times a week to freeze or have to buy a new freezer just for our weekly pizzas... hahaha

 

[yourbadd]

Love the idea! Will have to spend an afternoon making crusts. Storage question....how are you all storing them in your freezer? Flat and stacked or upright? Any breakage problems?

 

[miss_thenorth]

I picked up some cheap (aluminum) pizza trays from the dollar store. I prebake my shells on my oven stone, after they have cooled a bit, i put a sheet of wax paper on the pizza tray, then a shell, then another shell, wax paper, etc. I buy extra large ziploc freezer bags and shove them all in the bag--as many as wil fit. When i make pizas, I usually make 3-4 at a time, as my family loves the leftovers.