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Pepperoni pizza

Name: Pepperoni pizza
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 37 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 3/4 cups bread flour; 7/8 cup, lukewarm water; 1 1/2 tsp active dry yeast; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 1/4 tsp salt; 3/4 cup crushed tomatoes; 1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded; 24 slices pepperoni; 1/2 tsp dried oregano

America's most-ordered pizza, made honestly at home: the same yeasted base under tomato, mozzarella and cupping pepperoni. Now with the number the delivery box never carries.

Time: 37 min (25 prep + 12 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 584 kcal
Protein: 27 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

Dough

2 3/4 cups bread flour330 g
7/8 cup, lukewarm water210 g
1 1/2 tsp active dry yeast5 g
1 tbsp olive oil15 g
1 1/4 tsp salt7 g

Topping

3/4 cup crushed tomatoes200 g
1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded170 g
24 slices pepperoni80 g
1/2 tsp dried oregano1 g

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Steps

Make and rise the dough as for the plain pizza: yeast in lukewarm water, then flour, oil and salt; knead 8 minutes, rise 90.
Preheat the oven and a steel or heavy tray at 250–275°C for 45 minutes.
Stretch by hand, sauce thinly, cheese, then the pepperoni — small thick-cut slices cup and crisp; wide thin ones lie flat and go greasy.
Bake 8–12 minutes until blistered. Blot the pepperoni pools if you like; that's fat you chose not to eat.

Alternative

Homemade pizzathe plain margherita33

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

19% of kcal

52% water

6 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 2337 kcal goes into the pot, 1018 g of ingredients comes out as ~1000 g of food → 234 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 234
Protein: (19%); 11 g
Fat: (36%); 9 g
Carbohydrates: (46%); 27 g
of which sugar: 1 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 546 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.