This camping pizza is a great idea whether you're camping, glamping, having a cookout or simply want to avoid heating up your house making pizza in your oven.
This is another camping recipe my family used to make when I was a kid. The best part is you can make it on the grill, or in a cast iron frying pan on a camp stove or on a campfire! Nor do you have to mess with making dough - you use a store-bought pizza crust for this campfire pizza.
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🥘 Ingredients
This camping pizza recipe is made with grilled pizza toppings and ready made pizza crust. It's unique because you grill the meat and veggies on skewers before you put them on the pizza, giving it a delicious barbecue flavor. With most campfire pizzas, you cook the toppings on the pizza. Perfect for camping, cookouts or backyard grilling!
Grilled Pizza Toppings
For this camp pizza recipe you’ll need:
- pepperoni slices
- bell pepper (I use green)
- fresh white mushrooms
- ready made/store-bought pizza crusts
- pizza sauce
- mozzarella cheese
📖 Variations
- Toppings: add your favorite pizza ingredients or other toppings to the skewers such as red pepper, cherry tomatoes, cubed ham, sausage or anything that can be cooked on a skewer
- Pizza crust: use pita bread or smaller, individual pizza shells, and you can use thick or thin crust * I prefer thin crust, but it can burn quickly, so I recommend a thicker crust, especially if you are cooking it over the campfire and have less control of the heat
- Pizza sauce: use your favorite pizza sauce (or simply use the sauce that comes with the ready made pizza crust starter kit)
- Spice: spice it up with spicy jack cheese, jalapenos, or hot peppers
🔪 Instructions
Grilled Pizza
Directions for Grilled pizza toppings: For both the grilled pizza and cast iron pizza method, you'll need to grill the toppings. Preheat the grill to 350 degrees F/175 degrees C and cook the skewers on a grilling rack (see above photo) for 8 - 10 minutes, lid down on the BBQ, turning to brown on each side.
Step 1: Grill the store-bought pizza crust, checking regularly, until lightly browned. This will only take about 2 minutes if you have thin crusts, so watch it closely.
Step 2: Heat the sauce in a saucepan on burner (or if you don't have an additional burner, simply add the sauce to the pizza crusts, while they are grilling).
Step 3: Add grilled toppings and cheese, then turn off grill and place the lid down until cheese is melted.
Step 4: Remove from grill and enjoy!
If you are making it over an open fire you can use a cast iron frying pan (affiliate link) or place directly on grill (see directions below)
How to make a cast iron pizza oven for camping
Step 1: Add the pizza sauce to the store-bought pizza sauce (you can do this in the cast iron pan or out of the pan and put it in the pan after)
Step 2: Add the grilled pizza toppings to the top of the pizza, then the cheese
Step 3: Seal the cast iron pan with aluminum foil and place it over heat for about 3 - 5 minutes, or until cheese has melted (keeping a close eye on it because you're cooking over open flames in a fire pit). You don't want the bottom of the pizza to burn.
Step 4: Remove cover
Step 5: Enjoy!
💭 Top tip
If you are using wooden skewers for the grilled toppings, soak your skewers in cold water for 10 minutes before using on the grill. This will prevent them from catching on fire while you are grilling!
👪 Serving Size
This campfire pizza recipe makes 20 servings. However, you can half, double or triple the recipe by clicking on the blue serving number and selecting the number of servings you'd like. The ingredient quantities will automatically adjust.
🍽Equipment
Cook these camp pizzas directly on a grill/BBQ or use a cast iron skillet! for cooking on a campfire or on a camp stove (affiliate links).
🥗 Side Dishes
Serve this camping pizza with easy sides like cut up vegetables or a side salad.
🌡️Storage
Store this campfire pizza in a fridge or a cooler for up to 4 days in an airtight container.
So, if you are looking for unique camping food or grilling pizza recipes for your next camping trip, you will love this one! This delicious recipe is sure to become one the whole family loves, as well as a camping tradition!
And if you're heading out camping, be sure to check out this What to pack for camping article, so you don't forget any essentials!
And be sure to try my Foil Packs for camping too!
🍕 Camping Pizza Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ lb pepperoni about a 250 g chub
- ½ lb mushrooms approximately
- 1 green peppers
- 2 -10 inch ready made pizza crusts * or store-bought pizza crusts and use any pizza sauce
- ½ cup pizza sauce
- 1 lb Mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Slice pepperoni, green peppers and wash mushrooms. Place on skewers (soak skewers first - see NOTES)
- Preheat the grill to 350 degrees F/175 degrees C.
- Grilled pizza toppings: For both the grilled pizza and cast iron pizza method, you'll need to grill the toppings. Cook the skewers on a grilling rack for 8 - 10 minutes, lid down on the BBQ, turning to brown on each side.
Grill method:
- Step 1: Grill the store-bought pizza crust, checking regularly, until lightly browned. This will only take about 2 minutes if you have thin crusts, so watch it closely.
- Step 2: Heat the sauce in a saucepan on burner (or if you don't have an additional burner, simply add the sauce to the pizza crusts, while they are grilling).
- At this point, you’ll want to add any sliced olives or hot peppers ( anything that doesn’t require actual cooking ( just warming)
- Step 3: Add grilled toppings, turn off grill, and place the lid down until cheese is melted.
Cast Iron Method:
- Chop, skewer and grill the toppings, as described above.
- Step 1: Add the sauce to the store-bought pizza sauce (you can do this in the pan or out of the pan and put it in the pan after)
- Step 2: Add the grilled pizza toppings, then the cheese
- Step 3: Seal the cast iron pan with foil and place it over heat for about 3 - 5 minutes, or until cheese has melted (keeping a close eye on it)
- Serve warm with baby carrots, sliced cucumbers or salad! Enjoy
Notes
📖 Variations
- Toppings: add other toppings to the skewers such as red pepper, cherry tomatoes, cubed ham, sausage or anything that can be cooked on a skewer
- Pizza crust: use smaller, individual pizza shells and thick or thin crust * I prefer thin crust, but it can burn quickly, so I recommend a thicker crust, especially if you are cooking it over the fire and have less control of the heat
- Pizza sauce: use your favorite pizza sauce (or simply use the sauce that comes with the ready made pizza crust starter kit)
- Spice: spice it up with spicy jack cheese, jalapenos, or hot peppers
Bernice
Our kids loved making individual camping pizzas! One time we actually made a solar box oven out of aluminum foil too. I think doing these on a bbq like you did would be much easier.
Colleen
We are going camping next week and now we can have our pizza fix! I love the cast iron option even though we always bring the bbq. Can't wait to try it out!
nancy
I love camping pizza especially on a cast iron! They are so crispy and makes camping food more enjoyable!
Sadia Malik
Looks delicious and so easy to make