This red pepper pizza is an easy topping idea with major flavor! Sprinkle with roasted peppers, feta, and oregano for an unforgettable pie.
Need some pizza night ideas? Here’s an idea that’s so simple but tastes like it’s from your favorite pizza joint: this red pepper pizza with feta and oregano! First stir together our famous easy pizza sauce, which requires just 5 ingredients for its garlicky tomato flavor. Then top with mozzarella cheese, jarred roasted red pepper strips and salty feta cheese. Baked until the crust is golden and showered with fresh oregano, it’s one unforgettable pie.
Ingredients for red pepper pizza
This red pepper pizza is quick and easy: the model of Italian simplicity! Here at A Couple Cooks we’ve eaten a lot of great pizza in the US and Italy, and what we’ve found is this: the best topping combinations are the simplest. There’s a reason that margherita pizza is the world’s favorite! All you need are a few quality ingredients to make magic. Here’s what you’ll need for this recipe:
- Best Pizza Dough
- Homemade Pizza Sauce
- Shredded mozzarella cheese (whole milk if possible)
- Feta cheese crumbles
- Jarred roasted red peppers
- Fresh oregano
For the pizza dough
The trick to the best red pepper pizza? Homemade pizza dough. There are several options for dough depending on your preferences and what tools you have available. The first recipe is our standard, but the others are great alternatives.
- Best Pizza Dough: The standard! This is our best oven pizza dough and works best on a pizza stone.
- Thin Crust Pizza Dough: It’s easy and you can roll it out instead of stretching it.
- Pizza Oven Dough: Got a pizza oven? This is the dough recipe for you.
There are a few other styles of pizza dough that also work here. You can try a Pan Pizza in a cast iron skillet, no special pizza tools required. Or, make our Best-Ever Sheet Pan Pizza: it makes a double recipe in a large sheet pan, perfect for serving a crowd.
Pizza making tools
You’ll need a few tools if you choose the standard or thin crust dough recipes. Again, if you chose the pan pizza or sheet pan pizza recipes above, no extra tools are needed!
- Pizza stone: High temperatures make the crust crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside. Here’s the pizza stone we recommend, and a bit more on how to care for it.
- Pizza peel: A peel is a paddle used to slide a pie onto the hot stone in the oven. We recommend this standard pizza peel or this conveyor pizza peel.
- Pizza oven (optional): Want to make next level pizza? Try an outdoor pizza oven! We own and have extensive experience with both the Ooni pizza oven and the ROCCBOX (the ROCCBOX is our favorite). We used a pizza oven to get the charred crust you see in the photos.
Red pepper pizza topping variations
There are lots more fun pizza toppings to add to this red pepper pizza, if you’d like to get more creative! Here are a few ideas for flavors that would pair well:
- Red pepper sauce (use it instead of the homemade pizza sauce)
- Goat cheese or ricotta cheese, in dollops
- Asiago or Pecorino cheese
- Olives
- Sausage crumbles
- Basil
- Thyme
- Hot honey
- Artichoke hearts
- Spinach (sauteed or frozen thawed)
- Red onion slices
What do you plan to put on your red pepper pizza? Let us know if you follow the recipe below or get creative with more toppings!
More pizza recipes
Love pizza? Here are some of our top pizza recipes to try:
- Go for a classic Homemade Margherita Pizza
- Try these 20 Popular Pizza Toppings
- Opt for White Pizza (Pizza Bianca) or Classic Burrata Pizza
- Try Homemade Cheese Pizza or Best Ever Taco Pizza
This red pepper pizza is…
Vegetarian.
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Red Pepper Pizza with Feta
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 7 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 7 minutes
- Yield: 1 medium pizza 1x
Description
This red pepper pizza is an easy topping idea with major flavor! Sprinkle with roasted peppers, feta, and oregano for an unforgettable pie.
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Best Pizza Dough (or Thin Crust Dough or Pizza Oven Dough)
- ½ cup Homemade Pizza Sauce
- 2/3 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (whole milk if possible)
- ¼ cup feta cheese crumbles
- 1 large jarred roasted red pepper, thinly sliced
- 2 sprigs fresh oregano, chopped, for garnish (or ¼ teaspoon dried oregano)
Instructions
- Make the pizza dough: Follow the Best Pizza Dough, Thin Crust Pizza Dough or Pizza Oven Dough recipes to prepare the dough. (This takes about 15 minutes to make and 45 minutes to rest.)
- Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 500°F. OR preheat your pizza oven (here’s the pizza oven we use).
- Make the pizza sauce: Make the Homemade Pizza Sauce. (You’ll use about ½ cup for the pizza; reserve the remaining sauce and refrigerate for up to 1 week.)
- Bake the pizza: When the oven is ready, dust a pizza peel with cornmeal or semolina flour. (If you don’t have a pizza peel, you can use a rimless baking sheet or the back of a rimmed baking sheet. But a pizza peel is well worth the investment!) Stretch the dough into a circle; see How to Stretch Pizza Dough for instructions. Then gently place the dough onto the pizza peel.
- Spread a thin layer of the pizza sauce over the dough. Add the mozzarella cheese. Add the red pepper strips and sprinkle with feta cheese.
- Use the pizza peel to carefully transfer the pizza onto the preheated pizza stone. Bake the pizza until the cheese and crust are nicely browned, about 5 to 7 minutes in the oven (or 1 to 2 minutes in a pizza oven).
- Allow the pizza to cool for a minute or two before adding the fresh oregano leaves. Slice into pieces and serve immediately.
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Pizza
- Diet: Vegetarian
Keywords: Red pepper pizza
