Hot Honey Soppressata Pizza (Bee Sting Pizza)
Who doesn't love pizza night? This spicy soppressata pizza with hot honey (a.k.a. Bee Sting Pizza) is the perfect excuse to have friends over! With homemade pizza dough, red sauce, melty mozz, and serrano peppers, this pizza is cheesy, hot, sweet, and takes just a few minutes to throw together. You will be obsessed with this unexpected (but super delicious!) combo.
Ingredients
- 1 recipe homemade pizza dough or store-bought (~2 pounds/900 grams)
- Cornmeal, for dusting
- 1 cup pizza sauce (250 grams)
- 1 pound whole milk mozzarella, grated (454 grams)
- 2 ounces soppressata (60 grams)
- 1 serrano pepper, thinly sliced (seeds removed if desired)
- 1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan (25 grams)
- 1/4 cup fresh basil, julienned (12 grams)
- Red pepper flakes, for serving
- Hot honey, for drizzling
Equipment
- Pizza stone, (or sheet pan)
- Pizza Peel (or wood cutting board)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 500°F (260°C). Place a pizza stone or sheet pan in the oven while it preheats.
- Divide the dough into 2 equal-sized pieces. Stretch one of the pieces into a thin, 12-14-inch circle, leaving a thicker 1-inch border for the crust. Then, dust a pizza peel (or wood cutting board) with a generous sprinkle of cornmeal and place the stretched pizza dough on top.
- Spread 1/2 cup (124 grams) of the pizza sauce on the dough, leaving a 1-inch border for the crust. Sprinkle half of the mozzarella over the sauce. Then, top the pizza with half of the soppressata, serrano peppers, sliced red onion, and parmesan.
- Slide the pizza off of the pizza peel and onto the hot pizza stone or sheet pan. Bake for 7-9 minutes, or until the bottom of the pizza is crisp and the cheese is bubbly. Meanwhile, make the other pizza with the remaining ingredients.
- Remove the pizzas from the oven. Sprinkle them with the julienned basil and red pepper flakes, to taste. Drizzle both pizzas with your desired amount of hot honey. Cut each pizza into 8 slices and serve!
Notes
Feel free to halve this recipe to make 1 pizza. Or make one Sicilian-style pizza instead.
Use freshly-grated cheese in this recipe. Pre-grated has additives that will make the cheese grainy and rubbery once it's melted.
If you can't find soppressata, any salami you like will work. Also, soppressata ingredients vary from region-to-region, so feel free to experiment with different kinds.
It's important to use the hottest setting of your oven to bake the pizza. Mine goes up to 500°F (260°C). The high heat will give the crust a nice golden bottom and bubbly cheese on top!
Serving: 1slice, Calories: 130kcal, Carbohydrates: 6.3g, Protein: 7.5g, Fat: 8.1g, Saturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 23mg, Sodium: 300mg, Potassium: 38mg, Fiber: 0.3g, Sugar: 2.6g, Calcium: 162mg
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