This will not stretch like Caputo. It will press into a pan and bake into a pie you can share with someone who cannot eat wheat.
Use a blend with xanthan or a 1:1 gluten-free bread flour. Oil the pan. Do not launch it.
Ingredients
Pick one dough — homemade or a store-bought ball.
Homemade dough
- 300 g gluten-free 1:1 bread flour (with xanthan)
- 6 g instant yeast
- 8 g salt
- 10 g olive oil
- 240 ml warm water
- 5 g honey or sugar
Premade dough
- 1 ball gluten-free store-bought pizza dough, pressed into an oiled pan
Products & ingredients
What this pie actually wants. Flour, tomatoes, cheese, and tools — Amazon links, so this blog can keep going.
Caputo Fioreglut Gluten-Free FlourCheck Amazon.comGluten-Free Flour
King Arthur Gluten-Free 00 Pizza FlourCheck Amazon.comGluten-Free Flour
Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free 1-to-1 FlourCheck Amazon.comGluten-Free Flour
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Galbani Fresh MozzarellaCheck Amazon.comToppings
California Olive Ranch Extra VirginCheck Amazon.comOlive Oil
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Nutrition
If you buy the kit on this page
- Serving
- 1/4 pizza
- Calories
- 160
- Protein
- 0 g
- Carbohydrates
- 33 g
- Fat
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 410 mg
Pack labels of those brands (or USDA where a brand does not print a panel), times the grams in this recipe. Drain the mozzarella, swap a tin, or skip the oil and they move.
Labels used: Caputo Fioreglut, Diamond Crystal kosher salt, California Olive Ranch, Galbani fresh mozzarella.
How to make and cook it
Bought dough? Skip “Make the dough.” Let the ball sit out 1 hour, then start at “Cook the pie.”
Make the base
- 01Mix 300 g gluten-free 1:1 flour (with xanthan), 6 g yeast, 8 g salt, 10 g oil, 240 ml warm water, 5 g honey until like batter.
- 02Rest 30 minutes.
- 03Oil a pan.
- 04Press with wet hands.
- 05Proof 45 minutes.
Or use premade dough
- 01Skip mixing.
- 02Buy a ball, let it sit out 1 hour, then follow Add sauce and toppings on a pie recipe.
Add sauce and toppings
- 01Stretch the dough.
- 02Sauce, then cheese, then any toppings — in that order.
Cook
- 01Top lightly.
- 02This crust cannot carry a mountain.
Cook
Oven
- 01Heat to 245°C (475°F).
- 02Bake 14–18 minutes until the edges crisp and the center is set.
- 03Rest before cutting.
Gas pizza oven
- 01Too fierce.
- 02Use the kitchen oven.
- 03If you try it, lowest flame, pan only, 6–8 minutes, and watch it like a hawk.
Wood-fired oven
- 01Same.
- 02A live fire will burn a gluten-free crust before it sets.
- 03Kitchen oven.
