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Hungry Man’s Pizza

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By: Joanna Cismaru •1/11/23 10 Comments

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Hungry Man’s Pizza or Hungry Woman’s Pizza. Loaded with some of my favorite ingredients, like bacon, shiitake mushrooms, capers, olives and loads of cheese, there’s nothing better than a delicious homemade pizza!

Side shot of a Pizza topped with bacon, halved cherry tomatoes, shiitake mushrooms. capers and cheese.

Tonight we made pizza for dinner and I must say it was a lot of fun. I call this Hungry Man’s Pizza (or Hungry Woman’s pizza) because we put lots of ingredients on this pizza from bacon to capers to shiitake mushrooms and boy did it turn out beautiful and so delicious. I made the dough from scratch and the dough recipe that follows makes dough for 2 pizzas, so I only made one tonight and put the other half of the dough in the freezer to make at a later time.

Making pizza dough is very easy, all it takes is a few simple ingredients that you have in your pantry right now. Of course you always have the option of buying your pizza dough at the store and using it here.

The way I chose the ingredients for this fabulous pizza was simple. I looked in my fridge and picked out what I saw. I had these gorgeous cherry tomatoes that were just calling to me to be used up. A long time ago I never would have put tomatoes on a pizza, but living in Southern Ontario for so many years, where they probably have the best pizzerias in the world, opened my eyes to all kinds of variations of pizza. One of them being a simple tomato onion pizza, which to this day is one of my favorites and it’s always what I order when I go back to Southern Ontario.

A bowl of cherry tomatoes

Another one of my favorite ingredients I found in my fridge were these wonderful shiitake mushrooms.

A bowl of Shiitake Mushrooms

And of course my all time favorite, the bacon.

A bowl of Crumbled Bacon

 And here, my beautiful dog was smelling the bacon with that intense look on her face that if the bacon didn’t come to her, her life would just simply be over! Isn’t she cute. 🙂

A beagle (dog)

After all the ingredients are on the pizza this is what my gorgeous pizza looked like..

Close up of the uncooked pizza

Yum, eh? And now….drum roll please…the final product….

Final shot of the finished pizza.

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Hungry-Man’s Pizza

Prep 15 minutes
Cook 15 minutes
Total 30 minutes
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Hungry Man’s Pizza or Hungry Woman’s Pizza. Loaded with some of my favorite ingredients, like bacon, shiitake mushrooms, capers, olives and loads of cheese, there’s nothing better than a delicious homemade pizza!
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Ingredients

  • 1 pizza dough

Hungry-Man Pizza

  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes (quartered)
  • 8 slices bacon
  • 1 cup mozzarella cheese
  • 1/2 cup pizza sauce
  • 2 tablespoon capers
  • 1 cup mushrooms (sliced)
  • 1/2 cup olives (sliced)

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Instructions 

  • Pour the yeast over the warm water in a small bowl. In the bowl of your mixer, add the flour and salt and mix. Add the olive oil and using the dough hook, mix for about a min.
  • Add the yeast mixture to the flour mixture and mix until well incorporated. Shape the dough into a bowl and place in an oiled bowl, rubbing oil on the dough as well, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
  • Fry the bacon on a plate with paper towels to soak up the fat. Slice up the tomatoes, mushrooms and olives.
  • Preheat oven to 500 F degrees.
  • Take the dough from the fridge and cut it in two pieces. Refrigerate half of the dough if you’re only making one pizza. Roll out the pizza dough and place it on a oiled pizza pan, no need to oil the pan, if you’re using a stone.
  • Assemble the pizza, start with the pizza sauce, mozzarella then the rest of the ingredients.
  • Bake the pizza for about 15 minutes or until done.

Nutrition Information

Serving: 383servingCalories: 553kcal (28%)Carbohydrates: 53g (18%)Protein: 21g (42%)Fat: 30g (46%)Saturated Fat: 11g (69%)Cholesterol: 51mg (17%)Sodium: 1721mg (75%)Potassium: 367mg (10%)Fiber: 3g (13%)Sugar: 9g (10%)Vitamin A: 587IU (12%)Vitamin C: 11mg (13%)Calcium: 158mg (16%)Iron: 4mg (22%)
© Author Joanna Cismaru

Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.

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Dennis
Dennis
Posted: 1 year ago

This looks great. Did you use regular black olives or Kalamata?
Thanks.

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Joanna Cismaru
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Posted: 1 year ago

Kalamata olives, they’re the best!

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Nicole Beaulieu
Nicole Beaulieu
Posted: 5 years ago

5 stars
Can’t wait to make this again!

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Roxy
Roxy
Posted: 9 years ago

Mmmmmm, imi ploua in gura 🙂 I make pizza from scratch almost every weekend. It takes a little bit of time, but it tastes so much better than any restaurant pizza around here.
I started using a different recipe for the dough. I use 14 g of yeast and you don’t have to let it rise anymore. I still let it sit 30 minutes, but it’s not necessarily. I also add 2 tsp sugar, but I’m not sure if that makes a big difference or not.
My favorite toppings (aside from the delicious bacon, of course) are prosciutto, corn, roasted garlic, roasted red peppers, fresh basil, feta, spicy salami, sundried tomatoes. If I use mushrooms, I sautee them first with onions and garlic. I love the flavor!

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Joanna Cismaru
Joanna Cismaru
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Posted: 9 years ago

Roxy, there’s nothing better than making your own pizza at home. 🙂

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sara
sara
Posted: 11 years ago

This pizza looks AWESOME! Love all those different ingredients, I bet they would taste amazing together…especially the bacon!

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Heidi @ Food Doodles
Heidi @ Food Doodles
Posted: 11 years ago

That looks awesome. My hubby will love this! Thanks for sharing 😀

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Lakisha Clampett
Lakisha Clampett
Posted: 11 years ago

I am so hungry after looking at this pizza, it is gorgeous. I will visit many times. Thanks for your great ideas.

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Augustina Jameson
Augustina Jameson
Posted: 11 years ago

This pizza looks unbelievably delicious I will return again. The tips shared here are amazing. Kindly update this site with new tips.

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Donya Borkowski
Donya Borkowski
Posted: 11 years ago

5 stars
My favourite food in my favourite set:)

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