Dutch Oven Pizza Recipe - Simple Camping Recipe (2024)

Need a simple recipe for your next camping trip? Try this Dutch Oven Pizza Recipe made with refrigerated or homemade pizza dough.

We love baking things in our Dutch oven. We love to dump in ingredients and then set it to cook.

Many simple recipes taste better prepared over the fire or in cast iron. This Campfire Dutch Oven Pizza is no exception.

This easy recipe is fun to make. Get the kids to put it together while you prepare the charcoal.

Check out this camping pizza recipe collection, which includes pie-iron pizza sandwiches.

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How to Make Dutch Oven Pizza

Baking a pizza in a cast-iron pot is like making it home, but the heat source differs. To make pizza, you need to:

1. prepare the charcoal
2. line the Dutch oven
3. press dough into bottom of the oven
4. top with tomato sauce
5. cover with pizza cheese
6. add toppings
7. bake

Campfire Pizza Ingredients

This recipe uses the following ingredients:

• refrigerated pizza dough
• pizza sauce
• shredded mozzarella cheese
• your favorite toppings (pepperoni slices, sausage, mushrooms, onion, black olives, bell peppers)

More Pizza Recipes: Campfire Pizza Buns and Campfire Pizza Bread

Detailed Directions

Start by preparing charcoal briquettes, which heat the Dutch oven. For ease, use instant light charcoal and/or a charcoal chimney.

We prepare 25+ coals for our 10″ dutch oven. Preparing extra coals is always a good idea.

Dutch Oven Cooking Tip
Preheating your cast-iron pot and lid speeds up the baking time.
This can be done with extra briquettes or with campfire coals.

For ease of pizza removal and cleaning, spray the pot with olive oil cooking spray or use homemade Dutch oven liners.

Pizza Dough Options

Refrigerated pizza dough is the quickest way to make this recipe. You can also use a box pizza dough mix that only requires warm water for a crispy crust.

Homemade dough is another great option for camping pizza. We like this pizza dough recipe. Prep your own dough at home or make it out at the campsite.

A thicker tomato sauce (think paste) works best with homemade dough.

Assemble the Pizza

Roll the dough out and press it into the bottom of the Dutch oven, leaving a little lip around the edge.

Spread pizza sauce on the dough to the edge of the lip. We find that a little bit goes a long way!

Cover the sauce with generous amounts of mozzarella cheese and top with your favorite pizza toppings. Sprinkle with some parmesan cheese for added flavor.

Close up the Dutch oven.

Arrange 8 pieces of prepared charcoal in a small circle and place the oven over the circle.

Arrange 17 coals on the Dutch oven lid.

Turn the lid a quarter turn one way and the pot the other at the 10-minute mark for even baking.

Bake for 20-30 minutes. Use a lid lifter to check that the pizza crust is golden brown.

This Campfire Dutch Oven Pizza recipe turned out really well. It is amazing how cast iron elevates the taste of simple dough, creating a delicious pizza. You can even make Frozen Pizza over the Campfire.

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