Name: Spinach Artichoke Pizza
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 1 h 7 min
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 ball Best Pizza Dough (or Food Processor Dough or Thin Crust Dough); 1 garlic clove; 1 tablespoon olive oil, plus more for brushing; 3 cups spinach; 1/2 cup chopped artichokes; 3/4 cup mozzarella; 2 tablespoons Pecorino Romano or Parmesan cheese; 1 pinch salt; Semolina flour or cornmeal, for dusting the pizza peel

Why not take all that’s great about spinach artichoke dip and put it on a pizza? This spinach artichoke pizza is a total crowd pleaser.

What’s not to love about the iconic spinach artichoke party dip? That creamy, gooey cheese and tang from the artichokes make it some kind of addictive substance. We riffed on the classic for one of our first big “hits” in 2010: this spinach artichoke grilled cheese. Many years later, we’re here to riff on concept and make it into a pizza. Please meet, our spinach artichoke pizza. Gooey, savory, and tangy, it tastes like that popular dip on top of pizza crust. Who could resist it?

How to make spinach artichoke pizza

If you take the dough out of the equation, spinach artichoke pizza is even easier to make than spinach artichoke dip. For the pizza topping, all you’ve got to do is saute a bit of minced garlic, add spinach leaves, and heat for about 3 minutes. Then add chopped artichokes (the canned kind), and cook one more minute. (Got spinach left over? See our top spinach recipes.)

As far as filling prep, that’s it! Spread it onto pizza dough, top with mozzarella and Parmesan cheese, and throw it in the oven. It comes out gooey and savory, just like the dip! Except even easier to eat, because the bread you’d dip has transformed into pizza crust.

For the toppings, we’ve also specified that you can use Pecorino Romano cheese instead of Parmesan. What is Pecorino Romano cheese? Pecorino cheese is a hard Italian cheese similar to Parmesan, but with much sharper flavor. Alex and I prefer Pecorino cheese to Parmesan because of the unique, super savory flavor. You can easily use Parmesan cheese here, but Pecorino puts it over the top.

Of course you can use storebought pizza dough for this recipe. BUT if you have time, we highly recommend that you make our homemade pizza dough! Keep reading for a few pointers about it.

How to make pizza dough: 3 tips!

To make the best spinach artichoke pizza, you’ve got to start with a great pizza dough. Alex and I have been working on our recipe for over 10 years. Here are our best tips for making pizza dough at home.

1. Use great flour.

Our best tip for next level Italian pizza dough is to use great flour! The flour we uses is called Tipo 00 flour; it’s what Neapolitan pizza restaurants use. It makes for a beautiful, supple and fluffy dough. We buy our Tipo 00 flour online.

2. Use a pizza stone & peel.

Another tip is to use a pizza stone! A pizza stone is what makes Italian pizza crust crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Here’s the best pizza stone we recommend, and a bit more on pizza stone care.

To pop the pizza dough right onto that blazing hot stone, we use a pizza peel! We recommend this Standard pizza peel or this Conveyor pizza peel. You can also use the bake of a baking sheet (or a rimless baking sheet), but it’s a little bit trickier. The pizza peel is the best tool for the job!

Don’t want to get a stone and peel? Make our Sheet Pan Pizza or Cast Iron Pizza instead!

3. Use a great recipe.

We have a few pizza dough recipes that you can make depending on your tastes and equipment. Our Best Pizza Dough is what we used for this spinach artichoke pizza. 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 — it would also work well here! Below is a video of Alex showing how to make and stretch the pizza dough.

Video: How to make pizza dough

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And that’s it! All you need to know to make a killer artichoke pizza at home. Let us know: have you tried this recipe? Any questions on pizza technique? Tell us in the comments below!

Looking for artichoke recipes?

We use artichokes quite a bit in our recipes: usually canned artichoke hearts and not the fresh artichokes, which can be hard to find! Outside of this artichoke pizza recipe, here are a few more of our favorite artichoke recipes!

This artichoke pizza recipe is…

Vegetarian.