Sam Panopoulos put ham and pineapple on a pie in Ontario in 1962 and the internet has not forgiven him. The search numbers have. People want this recipe.
Use a NY dough. Don’t drown it. The pineapple should caramelize, not steam.
Ingredients
Pick one dough — homemade or a store-bought ball.
Homemade dough
- 500 g bread flour
- 325 ml water
- 12 g salt
- 4 g instant yeast
- 8 g olive oil
Premade dough
- 1 ball store-bought pizza dough (250–280 g), room temperature 1 hour
Sauce and toppings
- Tomato sauce
- Low-moisture mozzarella
- Sliced ham or Canadian bacon
- Pineapple, drained well
Products & ingredients
What this pie actually wants. Flour, tomatoes, cheese, and tools — Amazon links, so this blog can keep going.
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Nutrition
If you buy the kit on this page
- Serving
- 1/4 pizza
- Calories
- 270
- Protein
- 13 g
- Carbohydrates
- 34 g
- Fat
- 8 g
- Sodium
- 620 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 Pizzeria 00, Diamond Crystal kosher salt, Partanna extra-virgin olive oil, Cento San Marzano tomatoes, Low-moisture mozzarella, Topping.
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 500 g bread flour, 325 ml water, 12 g salt, 4 g yeast, and 8 g oil.
- 02Knead, ball, cold-proof overnight.
- 03Temper 1 hour.
Or use premade dough
- 01Let a store-bought ball sit out for 1 hour until it is relaxed.
- 02Flour the bench.
- 03Stretch it to size — from here it is the same as homemade.
Add sauce and toppings
- 01Stretch.
- 02Sauce.
- 03Cheese.
- 04Ham, then pineapple patted dry.
Cook
Oven
- 01Steel at 290°C (550°F) for 45 minutes.
- 02Bake 7–9 minutes until the ham takes color and the rim blisters.
- 03Rest.
- 04Cut.
Gas pizza oven
- 01Preheat on high, stone 400–455°C (750–850°F).
- 0260–90 seconds, turning.
- 03Wet pineapple will steam — dry it first.
- 04Rest.
- 05Cut.
Wood-fired oven
- 01Floor 425–455°C (800–850°F). 60–90 seconds.
- 02The ham should take a little char.
- 03Cut.
- 04Argue later.
