If you love homemade pizza, but don’t want to heat up your oven during the summer, grilled pita pizzas is your answer. I will show you how easy they are to make, plus give you lots of topping ideas.
Our family loves to have mini parties all through out the year. There are no “official” events — like birthdays and holidays — happening in our home this week. However, that doesn’t stop us from celebrating the everyday! We decided to have fun with a Grilled Pita Pizzas Party that each family member made themselves.
Pizza is always great for parties and it’s quite common for me to make homemade pizza when we are having lots of people over. I usually make my own dough, but making pita pizzas is great way to simplify things. We made grilled pizza recently and, while it was delicious, making the dough took some work. With Greek pita bread (shown above, I bought them at Sam’s Club), your pizza crust is ready go to. They are 7″ in diameter, so they are a perfect “personal” sized pizza.
If your family is like my family, you’ll want to have lots of toppings for your party. Everyone seems to like something different, so I was sure to accommodate that. Outside on our patio table, I set up two baking sheets that held bowls filled with all of our Grilled Pita Pizza toppings. We had baby bella mushrooms, green and red bell peppers, pepperoni, black forest ham, pineapple tidbits, onions, black olives…and more.
Artichoke hearts…
Broccoli florets…
And sliced zucchini…
And, of course, shredded mozzarella cheese:
Each family member put their own toppings on their Grilled Pita Pizza.
Some, like Courtney, included lots of different things, like ham, pineapple, olives, and bell peppers…
Others, like Mattie, didn’t want any vegetables and went straight for just the pepperoni and ham.
We set our Char-Broil TRU Infrared Gas Grill so that only the two outside burners were on low. The two middle burners were left off. We carefully slid each pizza into the middle area of the grill so that they would get indirect heat.
We found that the bottom of the crust was finished before the cheese was as melted as we would like, so we made use of our top warming rack. We rotated almost-finished pizzas to this rack and put fresh pizzas down on the grill.
I just love my patio lights, so I had to slip a photo of them in here!
When the pizzas were done, we cut each pizza into fourths.
We ate them hot off the grill!
We had a lot of fun with our Grilled Pita Pizza party. This was our first time using the Greek pita breads for pizza, but it was so easy that we’ll definitely be doing this again soon.
Disclaimer: I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community. This #grillingishappiness shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and Sears Grilling #CBias #GrillingIsHappiness #SoFabU . All photos and opinions are my own.
Elizabeth Rodgers (@audiobookpop) says
This looks easy and delicious. I’m doing it!
Alison says
What a fun and easy idea to use pitas for pizza crust! Great way for everyone to have a meal they love!
Frugal Ferret says
I love grilled pizza – absolute yumminess
Lala says
I’ve told you that I’m moving in right? There would be no need for another baby, I could just fill that void and table place 🙂 Yummy viddles for sure.
Katie - Las Vegas Photographer says
I LOVE this idea for Pizza! Thank you for sharing and defiantly putting in on our menu in the near future. Would be fun for a party with all the different topping ideas!
Ratna says
I just made pita pizzas for the first time for the kids – they loved them! More ideas from you – so time to modify – yum!
brandie says
So cool, Ratna! We seriously have pizza (in some form) each week, so I’m always trying new ways!
Tammy and Parker says
Such a great idea for a simple and fun meal!
Glenda says
Love the pizza bar idea! What fun for everyone to design their own.
Lena - @elenka29 says
Love the variety and details. Don’t even get me started on food – everything looks awesome
Lyuba says
What a great idea on having everyone pick their own pizza! Love it! Great shots!
Ronni Keller says
For real??!! You always come up with THE coolest ideas! Just come cook for me once! Please 🙂
Abby says
These look SO good!! Just like my favorite pita pizza I buy for lunch… I am so impressed by your food photography — I can never get anything to look tasty. So bravo for taking a class! That’s awesome!
brandie says
Thanks Abby!
Abigail Peterson says
I saw your tweet the other day and wanted to respond, but got sidetracked and never responded. But I LOVE that you made pizzas from the pitas! And I love how you had so many topping choices.
brandie says
Thanks Abbie!! I kind of go overboard on the toppings, but it does seem that everyone wants something different, so it makes them all happy.
AnEverydayJen says
Those look delicious! I love how it was build-your-own. The photos are amazing!
brandie says
Thank you, Jen!
Vanessa, De Su Mama says
Wooooooo! Those look amazing!
brandie says
Thank you, Vanessa!! All your kind words have meant a lot to me.
Wendys Hat says
You’re doing a great job with the photography Brandie! What class are you taking? Your pizza sounds yummy too!
Minnie(@thelady8home) says
Awesome photographs!!! Th foods shown can make anyone feel hungry.
brandie says
Thanks Minnie!
bobbie says
looks yummy and your photos are great!
jenny - sugar loco says
I’m so doing this!!! They look so yummy. Great work on the photography!
Mallery Schuplin says
Those look delicious and simple! Good pictures this week!