Skillet Pizza Masterclass | Dinner DeeAs

It's a pizza party today in the kitchen as we make not one, not 2, but 3 simple skillet pies with veggies on the chicken and even food one for dessert up and there's no pizza of the needed find out how to get a deep dish crunch plus some time-saving shortcuts that's all ahead. I did it is. Welcome and I'm Angie curly and pizza is on the menu today with a delivery coming along the way from the oven, thanks to my chef back here Dwight Huggins you're already put stuff in the oven, let's go. Good. It was great to be back. My goodness, we've got some good stuff planned that we've called on him to answer a request. We love getting your questions so please keep them coming to Bobby and Dave for watching in Hudson who have been in touch. They sent us a dm on our facebook page facebook dot com slash dinner Diaz is where you can find us and they said love the show we watch every day how about a take on pizza. Yes, please so we're going to do not want to put 3 takes on pizza that's a big job. He takes on pizza, yeah, past iron personal how cute is this this is can't be better all right, we've got some dough we're going to get down to how to do the deal because though as a New York is a really important part was one of the most important parts of it here and we're going to use actually this time we're going to use the store-bought pre made don't easy one of the quick things about it is that when you get this though a lot of people have a lot of issues and actually turning this into a good pizza dough. So quick quick quick tip on this is that what you want to do is you actually want to take this though okay, you can't use a straight out the bag. One of the people one of the problems most people think I'm going to put it in half okay to flowered up a little bit and you're going to need this though yes, you want to need it about 15 to 20 times and once you need this though 15 to 20 times you put it in the bowl. You let it rise and settle for about another 3 to 5 hours and then. That's when your pizza dough is right, I love those. That's it got to get there. Oh I'm ready to get a little bit. So this is the preset though okay, all right, we'll fly to go up a little bit of course we'll work from the center okay going to work our way out and that's how we're going to shape out our dough what we're going to do is we're going to get it about the size of our cast iron pan okay, once we get the size of our cast iron pans what we're going to do is we're going to place them in our warm up and so as these those sit right here and let me go grab those fans, you see the skills right, you see me. I can make a box faster than anybody. Let's be careful touching this and we're going to place. These in our. Now that smells good already Dwight oh yeah, we're just that is that we have actually in here is we have a herbal extra virgin olive oil and that gives that very nice for a flavor that extra flavor and then once we get our dough in here we're going to place it in our cast iron pan. Okay, we're just going to shape it all in there watch your hands because they're okay, it's warm. Take the back of my hand and just start pushing it up against the sides. Great okay that my friend is how you get that nice crispy cast iron. Pizza crust going on. I know could we use a baking sheet on this as well you use the baking sheet here, but one of the nice things about the cast iron when you've got it like that. Yeah, it actually starts Chris, you know, okay, all right. It's in there we actually going to put it in the oven okay, we're going to let these bake for about 3 to 5 minutes, okay, Dwight you might take in mind. All right, we'll come back and the White's tips on the toppings it's ahead on dinner. All right so this is the recipe you need to see before you order another overpriced pizza the next time you get that craving we're making 3 different homemade pizzas that you can do tonight with my guest, Dwight hudgens right here really making your kind of personalized first. That's right everybody to do their own style of toppings they can do their own me so you can make it your own and which is the fun part of having a pizza party. Party, okay, and if you have that pizza party you can do with chicken like we're doing here you can do a shrimp you could do with the thing that you like it makes it your own, you know right now we're we're going to brown brown up some of our veggies. Let me get let me get started then over here. Nice tomatoes and it's always nice to have a bunch of color. Yeah, we're doing a bunch of different cherry tomato so we have a bunch of colors of red onions again. There. And it also didn't make it healthy for you. Yeah, it makes it fun. I love my son is going to have all those and that's it so we can and what we're doing is we are actually just browning up a little bit and we're using a fragrant herbal olive oil. So we're going to get a 2 to hop this herbal olive oil is going to get it nice and fragrant and flavored first for the vegetables and for the chicken why not add flavor on top of flavor flavor always on top of what's your favorite I'll be honest, I'm a meat eater. I love my protein, I'll put crazy things on top of the output. But the one there up with Elk on there. I'll do anything you wow we just saw an alligator pizza on there. I love that you see our chicken is pretty much getting that brown color. Yeah, a little bit brown and we're going to add a jam on top of it and this is going to be our smokehouse bourbon jam, let you taste this okay, the smokehouse bacon bourbon jam. One of our newest jams take a little taste of a really nice day. And that's going to get that flavor to that chicken. Now as a bourbon because I'm over 21. I mean but the alcohol is burned off of it so that's all right, it's really nice and that makes it a nice day for next. We're going to actually put on our chicken. So this chicken is pretty much Brown of what happened to chicken fully cooks once it's on that pizza that was I was going to ask you that you need to fully cook it because sometimes I wonder when you put sauce on the pizza should you cook it before you put the sauce on or you on the pizza actually like the meat the finish cooking on the pizza so that it doesn't get dried out okay, thank you so basically this is pretty much all the way through once it gets in the oven. It actually will finish off the cook. Take care of that chicken pretty much on there is Brown we're going to throw how much jam you put it on my gosh, I'm a put 2 gracious that's one of the 3 great. A nice flavor to that. Sometimes we think all the traditional tomato sauce right you say can a jar, but you don't have to use that I love that you use that smoke out what we use in the smokehouse we're actually going to be putting this smoke. On top of a medium soft. So we actually going to the salsa as the salt on there. A little spiciness to it okay. Spice in this to it and that actually going to add and make our sauce a little bit different. So that's what we're going to get with the vegetable one we're actually going to do a smoky jalapeno tomato chutney as our sauce okay, a little sweetness to it. Yeah, I think a little bougie on air and that's what we're going to get them wrong with that. All right, there's nothing wrong with that all right, we don't have one we don't have to we have all 3 of these for dinner and you can grab Dwight's recipe for our tasty trio visit our website dinner Diaz dot com can also scan that qr code right in the corner to find us and while you are there Dwight's get busy put more in the oven. We also have Dwight's recipes for his previous appearances check them out on our website, including simple stuff peppers and if you have one of these divided cast iron pans you want to make this and take a one pan TV dinner. I grew up on TV. Really good all right so my veggies are sauteing your chicken is going to get to that dessert, yeah, so we're going to actually sprinkle on some light brown sugar on here. Yeah, we're also going to add on some of our just peachy balsamic oh my goodness we're going to throw this in the oven and what veggies do we have in there so we actually have our blueberries okay, we have some peaches and we have some fresh strawberries in there. I'm down for it that looks wonderful so Dwight's putting that in the oven. We've got our veggies sauteing we've got our chicken almost ready. We're going to take another quick break when we come back the sauce short cut to get these ready in minutes right here on dinner Diaz. We are thinking outside of the pizza box. 3 different homemade pizzas with veggies with chicken and fruit thanks to my guest here Dwight Huggins the dreaded fisherman who was called to answer a viewer request. Thank you for doing that on a fun take on pizza all right so for anyone just joining us there are 3 pieces we've been making in these cast iron skillets which we've cooked up in the crust a little earlier then made our toppings cook some diced chicken in a little oil that added a glaze of that delicious smokehouse bourbon. I didn't. Which is made by Dwight and his lovely wife chef Sharon then toss it together with our veggies are green peppers are mushrooms are finished or study tomatoes all into white herbal extra virgin olive oil and cook them for a few minutes until we've got all of those few fruits ready can't say that fast. Combining peaches strawberries blueberries and another cast iron and then we've got them at 500 degree oven for about 5 minutes. White my mouth is watering it's time to us to taste real quick before we go ahead and this is a nice piece but some of that we're actually drizzling on the fruit. Okay, yeah, yeah to. That piece of something is amazing isn't it. Wow has a lot of flavor in there. Wait a minute that's that it's strong and it's fruity it's peachy but it's it's palatable to a less smooth. Let's get busy. We are actually calling over the vegetable, I mean over the fruit okay, what we're going to do is we're going to add this us one traffic jam. This is your wife's mom, I believe that's her name her name in honor of her how I love her and basically what we're going to do is going to spread that in there as the base that is our us one traffic jam and this is strawberry that is mixed peaches strawberries cranberries and cherries in there. And then once we get all that spread it in there what we're going to do is we are going to add are amazing beat mixed fruits, I could like swimming is right now we're going to add some mixed fruits to this bad boy right, okay, haha is really not I can envision like the kid him in a grab this. Yeah, can I use you got this vision like the kids helping out my God taking their favorite family night maybe movie night, a fun time. And then what we're going to add to that believe it or not is we're going to add some mixture of sharp cheddar cheeses, cheese and fruit cheese and fruit like a charcuterie pizza at a little cheese, we don't go crazy with the cheese and the fruit we had a little bit of cheese on top of that fruit and it actually going to go right into the oven from there listen, you get the toppings are so important. She does and then she's as a real nice little different taste to it okay, and I'm going to go into the oven okay. I let you go you got to self-service and then we are going to move on to our next amazing pizza. Okay now while we move to the next pizza will get them in order will just grab one of the one that's that and we ask you big question, yes, pineapple on pizza, you say yes or no. Sharon said yes. I said yes haha debate is on. I know I said no she said. Say we'll get to our veggies next. Veggies okay, okay, so they see what we're using is a smoky jalapeno tomato chutney and we're going to use that as our marinara sauce that's going to be our base, our amazing Chucky chutney is a little sweet is a little spicy okay, so if you don't like a lot of spice you don't use a lot okay, and now just to let you know you can always substitute any of this for regular marinara sauce. You can always use a marinara want to use a marinara you don't want to use something a little different to do more of a traditional pie look at that all right, we're going to go on and our fabulous mixed vegetables, okay, thank you yes that you saw T a little bit of that wonderful olive oil so great smells so good I could just spoon that oh my God be good to go should I put it down a little got to have that handle these past times which is so lovely, I love the browning on the. And then on top of that we're going to do a blend of my Okay on top of their just put this over here. This really is just a fun a fun time as much or as little as you want decorated make it personal as you said you can always put the cheese on the bottom or on the top. Okay, I like a little bit on the bottom or top and then we're going to place these into the oven Romano and the type of cheeses we have here you say. I'm going to put and she's not for their wonderful. I love that this is so great, you know, I love the balance here of the the sauce, the cheese, the toppings and the rest all these kind of marry together and we're building things that's building on top of that that if you're wondering about all the ingredients in the mouth for each of these pizza you of course going to got to grab that full recipe you can download and print it on our website at dinner Diaz dot com or scan that qr code in the corner of the screen. You can find us and we also have the whole recipe to make pizza dough if you want to do that from scratch with chef Sean Ferraro from Madison Avenue pizza in Dunedin for when you have a little more time in the kitchen, but I love that we did these with a little star board pizza make it a little easy. Long you know that a little trick and get that pizza that needed for a couple hours, but it's it let it prove, yeah, oh no what kind of so now last but not least we're going to do a medium salsa base. So this is like Jersey beefsteak tomatoes Georgia, but now the onions fresh heirloom jalapenos makes a very nice flavorful again marinara okay for your base, what's the weirdest pizza you've ever made so the way this piece I ever made again like it's what I mean we're talking about the alligator and it's the large mouth bass pizza. So we actually using fry large mouth that has or of the pizza and then okay, we're going to grab your cheese and again you have a recommendation of your favorite cheeses or any cheeses, whatever a pallet is whatever you like you can always change your cheeses. I like because this is just going to be a really nice savory chicken pizza a little bit of Parmesan okay and Romano on top just a little bit and again like you said I love this on the cross. Yes, we get this over there and it gives a nice fragrance put that on top I don't think it's going to be left over is on this. Okay, and we're going to place these in the oven perfect. I'll grab this bad boy and the hot oven 500 degrees 500 degrees. Nice and crisp. Now let me ask you do I could we use maybe the barbecue grill if we wanted to do that when you can really do you want to put a little cheese. I get to why it gives it a nice flavor. Yeah, you can always smoke it put it in a pizza oven. But what's nice about these cast. They take any heat. It creates a crispy. That's a must have we do not want soggy pizza not doesn't fly here. While our pieces are reaching kind of their perfection in the up one last break and we'll see how they look when they're done and how they taste. This is dinner days and we are very nearly done with today's idea for dinner, a triple threat of pizzas from my guest Dwight Huggins aka the dreaded fisherman now he's been answering a lot of questions namely Bobby and Dave watching us in Hudson who wanted a different take on pizza and I think you accomplish it 3 different ways we have very different pizzas. We just took him out of the oven we have a veggie pizza made with a smoky base of jalapeno tomato chutney top with veggies that we saw Tate earlier that's a little mozzarella little Parmesan rump Romano cheese that we have a chicken pizza oh my goodness topped with that wonderful Parmesan Romano cheese and then this one I cannot wait that for pizza strawberries blueberries and peaches in a the saw make peach vinegar glaze and a little cheddar cheese on top all of which went into a 500 degree oven for about 10 to 15 minutes and there they are they are ready. We are plating these up the wowser is here and look at that I don't even know where to start it's like it's the perfect you want a little bit of bite a little to a little crunch. Yeah, great toppings all right, they look outstanding which would be cutting first, I don't care which one is cut into this the fruit. This free one first and what we're going to do is like that bad boy up there. And I get you a little. Okay, a little that this would be great for dessert right now. My so we're going to desert pizza first. Right, it's always a dessert for that pillowy loveliness right there. Oh my God, you've been oh my cheers, cheers, let's do it. The sweetness with the jam on the bottom. Yeah, that's the jam all jam. Oh my goodness. That is cool at first. Stop it, you're showing off so now I'm going to totally reverse. All right, let's do the reverse we're going to do a vegetable pie right here, okay. Oh my goodness that crosses nice and I can hear it you can hear that. Yes. This has that shut me which I tasted delectable. Yeah, that only I sure well, there's always room in his belly on this plate. I smell the peppers and look at that look at the cheese cheese come over there. Oh my God. Well, I love the bottom is crispy. It's got a wonderful, it's holding up to all the wonderful bed. A little bit of sweetness. The end of good eating those wonderful veggies all fresh and what a look at that. Well, I'm ready to do. Sorry, you're watching all this. This is so good, you'll definitely want to make this for dinner. I'm going to steal some of that delicious crust why you cut the wonderful check in that you saw last but not least the smokehouse bourbon bacon jam chicken pizza. And the sauce on this one, none of these have the traditional tomato sauce of the hour. We've done a special chutneys that jalapeno is a wonderful. Thank you. I love how I get is holding up to the toppings which are substantial this is a nice fight for the chairs. That's a savory pizza right there to wipe. Oh my goodness, you know what my favorite is everything on this plate. I can't just choose one delicious to wait. Thank you so much and Bobby and Dave thank you for writing in with that request. We hope that you're inspired to try one of these for all of these from the whites recipes and again we have the ready to go grab them along with that link for that dreaded fisherman check out of social. And of course Barbara's kitchen, the homemade jams and jellies the sauces love y'all and to your wife Sharon, I will see you soon next time.