Camp Oven Pizza

We have been talking about doing camp oven pizzas for ages, but never got around to it. After a big day walking at Mt Elizabeth station on the Gibb River Road, I decided it was time, we had plenty of fire wood for the night. The main concern we had was the height to try & get the pizzas at in the camp oven, we have the normal old trivets, but weren't sure if the top would brown enough being so low in the oven & if the bottom would burn. We ended up finding a terracotta tile that we wrapped in foil & placed on the trivet & placed the pizzas on the top (on a pizza tray). This worked great for the top of the pizza & it ended up nice & browned but the bottom wasn't as good. It was cooked through, but we like our pizzas a bit crunchy on the bottom, so next time I don't think we will use the tile & will just try on the trivet, with lots of coals on top. They were delicious & we made a garlic & cheese version as well. We just made the pizzas the same, with what we had left in the fridge & camping food box, but you can definitely change it up. 

Camp Oven Pizzas

Pizza Dough

- 4 cups of bread flour

- 2 teaspoons of dried yeast

- 1 tablespoon of oil

- 1 teaspoon of salt

- 1 to 1/2 cups of warm water you might need more or less depending on the flour

Mix all ingredients together & knead the dough until becomes elastic & smooth, at least 5-10 minutes. Let rest until it doubles in size. Knock back the dough to remove air bubbles & cut into portions (I did 2 large & 1 small). Roll out to the size of your pizza tray. 

Pizza toppings

Garlic & Cheese pizza

- fresh garlic minced

- grated mozzarella

- cracked black pepper

- olive oil

Supreme pizza

- ham

- chorizo salami

- sliced onion

- tin of champingion mushrooms

- tin of pineapple pieces

- tin of anchovies

- small packet of olives

- grated mozzarella 

- tomato paste

Directions

- for the garlic pizza, spread the olive oil over the base, add the garlic, cheese & pepper.

- for the supreme, spread over the tomato paste & then add the toppings as you like. 

We baked our garlic pizza first & it took about 25mins in a preheated camp oven, with a shovel of coals under & on top of the camp oven. The supreme pizzas took about 35-40 mins each, again with coals on the top & bottom. Our heat was perfect when cooking our 3rd pizza & it turned out the best as the camp oven was the hottest. 

We will definietly tweaks the cooking next time, by trying it with no terracotta tile & just the trivet. Pizza toppings are endless, like always, but can be limited to what you have available while camping. I would love to try a dessert pizza next time too!