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Cajun Pizza
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This delicious Cajun pizza is sprinkled with Cajun seasoning and topped with red onion, green pepper, corn, and smoked gouda cheese.
Alex and I couldn’t resist coming up with another new pizza flavor to accompany our homemade pizza dough video! This variation is one of our favorites yet, with spicy Cajun seasoning taking center stage. We’ve paired it with our best homemade pizza sauce and a surprise ingredient – smoked gouda cheese – which takes the flavor up a notch! Keep reading for the Cajun pizza recipe.
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Related: Homemade Pizza for Beginners
How to make Cajun pizza
We hate picking favorites, but this Cajun pizza ranked number one of all the pizzas we made in a recent taste test. For the base of this pizza, it’s spread with our favorite Homemade Pizza Sauce, which takes just 5 minutes to whiz up in the blender and tastes incredible. The pizza sauce is sprinkled with Cajun seasoning to give it some spicy flair! Then add red onion, green pepper, spicy jalapeno pepper, and corn. And the best part: it’s topped with smoked gouda cheese, which gives it a meaty undertone. Of course feel free to customize the pizza toppings to your own spice level and ingredient preferences!
Related: How to make artisan pizza
How to make pizza dough
For this Cajun pizza dough, we have a few pizza dough recipes that you can make depending on your tastes and equipment. Our Best Pizza Dough is our preferred method; we make it using stand mixer, but you can also knead it by hand. Our Easy Thin Crust method is similar but makes a thinner dough that you roll out. Or for even easier methods, you can try Sheet Pan Pizza or Cast Iron Pizza.
Here’s a video of Alex showing how to make and stretch the Italian pizza dough. Fast forward to 1:45 minutes to watch the stretching process!
Looking for more pizza recipes?
Outside of this Cajun pizza recipe, here are a few more pizza recipes we love:
- Best Margherita Pizza
- Spicy Vegetarian Diavola Pizza
- Our Best Vegan Pizza
- Perfect Neapolitan Style Pizza Recipe
- Egg Pizza with Scallions
- Veggie Pizza with Avocado
- Roasted Poblano and Corn Pizzas
- Loaded Mexican Pizza
- Easy Cheese Pita Pizza
- “Get Your Greens” Naan Pizza
- Healthy Pita Pizza with Goat Cheese
- Thai Curry Naan Pizza
- Quick Veggie Pita Pizzas
- Roasted Red Pepper Pita Bread Pizza
- KitchenAid Pizza Dough Recipe
- All Our Homemade Pizza Recipes
This recipe is…
This Cajun pizza is vegetarian.
Cajun Pizza
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 pizza (8 slices) 1x
This delicious Cajun pizza is sprinkled with Cajun seasoning and topped with red onion, green pepper, corn, and smoked gouda cheese.
Ingredients
- 1 ball Best Pizza Dough (or Food Processor Dough or Thin Crust Dough)
- ½ cup Homemade Easy Pizza Sauce
- Cajun seasoning
- ½ cup shredded smoked gouda cheese
- ½ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 jalapeño pepper
- 1/2 red onion
- 1/2 green pepper (optional)
- 1 handful of corn, frozen or fresh
- Kosher salt
- Semolina flour or cornmeal, for dusting the pizza peel
Instructions
- Make the pizza dough: Follow the Best Pizza Dough recipe to prepare the dough. (This takes about 15 minutes to make and 45 minutes to rest.)
- Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 500°F. OR preheat your pizza oven (here’s the pizza oven we use).
- Make the pizza sauce: Make the Homemade Pizza Sauce.
- Prepare the toppings: Cut the jalapeño pepper in half, remove the seeds, and finely dice it. Thinly slice the red onion. Chop the pepper. If the cheese is not yet shredded, grate it.
- Place the dough on the pizza peel:
- When the oven is ready, dust a pizza peel with cornmeal or semolina flour. (If you don’t have a pizza peel, you can use a rimless baking sheet or the back of a rimmed baking sheet. But a pizza peel is well worth the investment!) Stretch the dough into a circle; see this video for instructions. Then gently place the dough onto the pizza peel.
- Quickly assemble the pizza: Thinly spread the pizza sauce over the dough, then sprinkle liberally with Cajun seasoning. Sprinkle with as much smoked gouda and mozzarella cheese as you like. Top with red onion, jalapeno, corn, and green pepper (if using). Sprinkle with a bit of kosher salt.
- Bake the pizza: Transfer the pizza to the pizza stone using the pizza peel, and bake until the cheese and crust are nicely browned, about 5 to 7 minutes (or 1 minute in a pizza oven).
About the authors
Sonja & Alex
Hi, we’re Alex and Sonja Overhiser, married cookbook authors, food bloggers, and recipe developers. We founded A Couple Cooks to share fresh, seasonal recipes and the joy of cooking! Our recipes are made by two real people and work every time.
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Long-time lurker, first-time commenter. ;)
Love the responsive web design guys. Well played. :)
Thanks! Figured that if we were going to do a re-design, we wanted to pick a responsive theme. Still not a lot to choose from, but this one is working out for us :)
I would eat this pizza every day if I could. My family is boring and won’t try anything new but I might force them so we can have this!
I had the pleasure of trying this and it was absolutely delicious! Thanks for letting us be your “taste testers”!
One word – yum! Sounds awesome!
Mmmm mmmm mmmm this looks perfect! I was in need of some pizza inspiration and this does it. I’m gonna check out your links to the other recipes as well. Love your photography :)