Hawaiian Pizza Recipe (2024)

This homemade Hawaiian Pizza recipe is sweet, salty, cheesy, and totally delicious. It’s topped with tomato sauce, Canadian bacon, fresh pineapple, and plenty of cheese and is super easy to make right at home.

Homemade Hawaiian Pizza Recipe

Adding pineapple on pizza can be a controversial topic, but we dare any skeptics to try this homemade Hawaiian Pizza recipe and not be converted. It’s got a deliciously chewy crust, spread with sweet and savory flavors like tomato sauce, cheese, Canadian bacon and juicy pineapple.

For the bacon lovers out there, feel free to substitute a smokey bacon instead. Other simple Hawaii pizza topping substitutions to make would be any type of ham and pineapple from the can. You can use our homemade pizza crust recipe, or purchase premade dough to keep life easy peasy.

Hawaiian Pizza Ingredients

Homemade Pizza Dough

• Flour - we use all-purpose flour but you can also use bread flour.
• Salt - salt is important for the flavor and for the structure of any bread, so don’t forget to add it!
• Water - warm water is best because it helps to wake up your yeast. It should be between 95-110 degrees F.
• Yeast - we use active dry yeast in this recipe, which needs to be proofed. (check out our Homemade White Bread recipe for more info on activating yeast). If you use instant yeast, you can skip the proofing step and just mix the pizza dough together, knead and then let rise.
• Sugar - we use regular granulated sugar, but you could also substitute honey.
• Oil - this recipe calls for olive oil, but you could substitute avocado oil or any other cooking oil that you’d like.

Hawaiian Pizza Toppings

• Marinara Sauce - you can use your favorite marinara sauce, tomato sauce or pizza sauce.
• Mozzarella Cheese - you can use pre-shredded or shred your own.
• Canadian Bacon - while Canadian bacon is the traditional topping on Hawaiian Pizza, you could also substitute ham or even bacon bits.
• Pineapple - to clean a pineapple, cut off the bottom and top, then use a very sharp knife to slice around the sides removing the outer layer and any extra “eyes.” From there, cut into bite-sized pieces. You could also use canned pineapple chunks if you’d like!
• Dried Oregano - this adds great flavor, but is totally optional.
• Salt - sea salt works great. It’s a little more coarse than regular table salt so adds little bursts of flavor to each bite.

How to Make Hawaiian Pizza from Scratch

1. Make the dough. Make your Homemade Pizza Dough. If you are making the dough ahead of time, wrap it tightly with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator overnight. Otherwise, cover the bowl with a towel or plastic and let rise in a warm place until doubled.
2. Stretch the dough. With lightly floured hands, stretch and shape your dough into desired pizza pan. If it begins to resist, let the dough relax for a couple of minutes and then continue.
3. Add the sauce and toppings. Add the marinara sauce and spread evenly onto the pizza crust with the back of a spoon. Top with the shredded cheese, Canadian bacon and pineapple chunks then sprinkle with dried oregano and sea salt.
4. Bake. Bake in a preheated 450 degree oven for 20-22 minutes, or until the bottom of the pizza is golden brown and the cheese is melted.
5. Serve. Remove from the oven and let cool for a few minutes before slicing and serving. Enjoy!

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This easy Hawaiian Pizza has a chewy homemade pizza crust spread with sweet and savory flavors like tomato sauce, cheese, Canadian bacon and juicy pineapple. We dare any skeptics to take just one bite.

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