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Shortcut Homemade Pizza Recipe

his homemade pizza recipe is delicious. Using a store bought crust cuts prep time and you still have a tasty pizza pie everyone will love. 

Course Dinner, Late Night Snack, Lunch, Snack
Cuisine American, Italian
Keyword cooking with kids, homemade pizza, pizza, pizza night
Servings 6
Author Pam

Ingredients

  • store bought pizza crust, for this recipe I used a 12 inch Boboli crust, found in the bread isle of your grocery store
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 cup or more to taste favorite jar pasta/pizza sauce or homemade,  here’s one of our favorite homemade sauce recipes that we put on pasta too.  Rigatoni with creamy tomato sauce
  • 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, I used part skim for this recipe
  • 2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese  
  • 2 tbsp fresh basil coarsely chopped

Instructions

  1. Remove crust from wrapper, place on cookie sheet or pizza stone. (For crispier crust, place right on oven rack with a cookie sheet under for any spillovers)Brush crust with 1 tbsp olive oilTop with sauce of choice, then mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Sprinkle on basil and 1 tbsp olive oil over entire pizza.Bake at 450 degrees for 8 to 12 minutes. Check after 8 minutes. Enjoy the pizza magic! Enjoy!!