This delicious Cajun pizza is sprinkled with Cajun seasoning and topped with red onion, green pepper, corn, and smoked gouda cheese.

Cajun pizza

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.

Related: Homemade Pizza for Beginners

Making Cajun pizza

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

Cajun 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 doughFast forward to 1:45 minutes to watch the stretching process!

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Outside of this Cajun pizza recipe, here are a few more pizza recipes we love:

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This Cajun pizza is vegetarian.

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Cajun Pizza


  • Author: a Couple Cooks
  • Prep Time: 1 hour
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • Yield: 1 pizza (8 slices) 1x

Description

This delicious Cajun pizza is sprinkled with Cajun seasoning and topped with red onion, green pepper, corn, and smoked gouda cheese.


Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. 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.)
  2. Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 500°F. OR preheat your pizza oven (here’s the pizza oven we use).
  3. Make the pizza sauce: Make the Homemade Pizza Sauce.
  4. 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.
  5. Place the dough on the pizza peel: 
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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).
  • Category: Main Dish
  • Method: Baked
  • Cuisine: Cajun

Keywords: Cajun pizza, Pizza Recipes, Homemade Artisan Pizza, Homemade Pizza, How to Make Pizza at Home

About the authors

Sonja & Alex

Meet Sonja and Alex Overhiser: Husband and wife. Expert home cooks. Authors of recipes you'll want to make again and again.

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7 Comments

  1. I had the pleasure of trying this and it was absolutely delicious! Thanks for letting us be your “taste testers”!

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