2 April 2026
8 min read
Perfect frying pan pizza, every time
Pizza Essentials
Frying Pan Pizza
With Alexia
Alexia knows her way around a dough ball. In this video she walks you through frying pan pizza from start to finish — using Pizza Essentials dough balls and a handful of proper ingredients to get the real thing on the table with no fuss.
You'll see exactly how to shape the dough by hand, get it into a hot pan, add your toppings and finish it under the grill — the whole process, nothing skipped. Watch it once and you'll have it down.
Good pizza doesn't need a wood-fired oven or a weekend to spare. It needs decent dough, the right technique, and about ten minutes. This is that.
Ready to make it?
Get the recipe below.
Ingredients
- Pizza Essentials dough ball1
- Tin tomatoes (sauce)2–3 tbsp
- Mozzarellato cover
- Fresh basila few leaves
- Olive oila drizzle
- Semolina flourfor dusting
Make sure your frying pan has a metal handle — it's going under the grill.
Method
- Get your frying pan onto a medium-high heat — medium-high on induction, slightly lower on gas. Set your grill to high.
- Lightly dust your work surface with semolina flour. Scrape the dough ball out of its container and lay it on the flour. Flip to coat both sides.
- Using the side of your hand, press down and twist to flatten the dough. Avoid pushing straight down — that's how you get holes. Work it into a rough circle, keeping about a finger-width of crust around the edge.
- Transfer the dough to your knuckles and gently open it out a little more. Keep your knuckles on the outside so you're not tearing through the centre.
- Slide the dough straight from your knuckles into the hot pan and spread it slightly across the base.
- Spoon on 2–3 tablespoons of tomato sauce. Add a few basil leaves, a drizzle of olive oil, then distribute the mozzarella evenly across the top.
- Once you see golden brown colour on the underside, pull the oven shelf out and transfer the pan under the grill for 3–4 minutes. Halfway through, pull it out and rotate the pizza for an even finish.
- Take the pan out, slide the pizza onto a chopping board and slice.