🥒Dill Pickle Pizza Recipe (Carnival Style)

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🥒Dill Pickle Pizza Recipe (Carnival Style)

This Pickle Pizza is made with Alfredo sauce, dill weed and garlic for a rich and creamy pizza sauce that pairs perfectly with pickles! It's carnival food at its finest and tastes just like the Pickle Pizza at the Calgary Stampede.

Course dinner, lunch, Snack

Cuisine American, Italian

Keyword dill pickle, pickle, pizza

Special Diet Vegetarian

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 20

Total Time 35

Servings pieces

Calories 206kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Ingredients

Dough

1 lb (12 inch) pizza dough * See NOTES

Garlic Dill Pizza Sauce

1 cup Alfredo sauce * I use Classico but you could use any brand
1 tablespoon dill weed * you can use fresh or dried dill, but use a little more if you use fresh 1 ½ - 2 tbsp
2 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon onion powder

Toppings:

6 whole dill pickles cut into smaller rounds
3 ½ cups pizza mozzarella * I use light mozzarella cheese

Garnish:

additional dill pickles or dill weed, as desired
parmesan cheese

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Instructions

Pizza Dough

Prepare the pizza dough as per instructions for recipe you are using (see NOTES)

Garlic Dill Pizza Sauce

Add all sauce ingredients into a bowl and whisk together.

Assembly

Preheat oven to 375 degree F. Grease the 12" pizza pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Place the dough on the pizza pan.
Spread the prepared sauce on top of the pizza dough, then add dill pickle slices and sprinkle cheese all over the top of the pizza.
Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until cheese is melted and bottom is lightly browned.
Turn up the oven to 500 degrees F and broil for 2-3 minutes until cheese is bubbly and a golden brown (to your preference) *watch closely so it doesn't burn. Once cooked, remove from the oven and cut into 12 pieces. Serve hot or cold.

Garnish

Garnish with parmesan cheese and extra dill weed or pickles as desired.

Notes

📖 Variations & Substitutions

Pizza dough:
You can make your own dough using the Weight Watchers 2 Ingredient Pizza Dough to lighten it up! WW 2 Ingredient Pizza Dough is so good that no one will ever even suspect it's Weight Watchers!
You can actually use any fresh pizza dough with this recipe, but if you're looking for a regular pizza dough recipe and you have a bread machine, I recommend you try it with my Bread Machine Pizza Dough. That's the dough I used when I made this (pictured). You can make it a thin crust or make a thicker crust, depending on what you prefer.
You could also use my quick and easy 15-minute homemade pizza dough (I use it for my pizza cupcakes) or even go to the grocery store and buy a store-bought pizza dough if you prefer.
Dill: You can use fresh dill instead of dried, but you will need to use double the amount
Alfredo sauce: you could use homemade Alfredo sauce - I recommend using the Alfredo sauce in my Creamy Chicken Fettuccine recipe.
Garlic: you could substitute garlic powder for the minced garlic
Pickles: you could substitute butter pickles if you don't have dill pickles, but since they are sweet pickles, the pizza will taste a little different.
Spicy: You can use spicy dill pickles or add a little hot sauce (buffalo or sriracha) to the garlic dill sauce or add some crushed red pepper flakes as a garnish to spice it up!
Add-ons: You can add Canadian bacon or chicken breast, if you desire.

Expert Recipe Tips:

Get a crispy crust. I recommend a perforated pizza pan for a crispy crust. You can also use a pizza stone. If you're not sure how to use one, click HERE to read about how to use a pizza stone.
Roll your dough out directly onto the pizza pan. I like to use a pastry/pizza rolling pin (affiliate link) that's silicone.
Prevent pizza dough from sticking to your rolling pin. When you are rolling out your pizza dough, it's best to constantly flour your rolling pin to prevent it from sticking.

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