How to Make Pizza in Air Fryer

Making Pizza base as well as Pizza in air fryer is perhaps one of the best uses of air fryer. Quick with excellent results.

If you avoided making Pizzas for your guests as it takes very long to bake, then with an air fryer, now you can treat them with back-to-back pizzas. Make mini pizzas for snacks or large pizza for meals.

Sharing here a detailed post as to how to make air fryer Pizza from scratch, yes, right from making the base to serving it on the dining table. And this time it’s semolina Pizza!

Do check My  Amazing Pizza Collection shared in the last!

How to Make Air Fryer Pizza

For making pizza in an air fryer, you need to prepare the pizza base first. Now, you can go for a store-bought pizza base also but I like to make my own as it’s very easy to make and it takes just 5 minutes to bake the base. So, why not?

Also, this time I have made pizza base using semolina. If you want to use whole wheat flour then you can check my post Whole Wheat Pizza’.

Thus this post has 2 parts, the first is to make the base and the other is to make Pizza.

Make Pizza Base

• For this, we knead the dough by mixing semolina, yeast, cane sugar, salt and oil. You should knead it for 15 to 20 minutes till the dough stops sticking and is smooth and shiny. I kneaded it in my food processor and the dough got ready in less than 5 minutes.
• Thereafter, the dough is left for proofing for an hour or so. As the temperature has started dipping, so I put the dough in my air fryer after preheating it at 180 degrees C for 3 minutes. And, the dough got ready in exactly one hour.
• Then, deflate the dough by kneading it for 30 seconds or so and divide it into 5 or 6 parts.
• Roll each part as big as your air fryer basket.
• Take out the air fryer basket, and simply rub some dry flour on it (yes, it will pass through the holes but that’s okay). This is done so that the base doesn’t stick to the basket. Then put the rolled base on the basket and let it again proof for 10 minutes or so. Once proofed, prick the base nicely with a fork to avoid puffing up while baking.
• Similarly, roll all other bases and either keep them on the parchment paper or just on the kitchen slab only.
• After 10 minutes, preheat the air fryer at 180 degrees C for 3 to 4 minutes and then slide the basket in. You may cover the base with a wire mesh to avoid it getting curled. Air fry it for 5 minutes and your Pizza base is ready.
• Take it out and let it cool on a wire rack so that it doesn’t get soggy from the bottom. Similarly, make all the Pizza base.

Make Pizza

• This is the simplest part which even your children would love to do themselves.
• Preheat the air fryer for 3 to 4 minutes at the highest degree in your air fryer, generally, 200 degrees C. If you are making in continuation with pizza base only then you can skip this point.
• Brush oil on the edges of the pizza base then put pizza sauce, arrange veggies of your choice, cover it with grated cheese, and keep it carefully in the air fryer basket. You can use parchment paper so that lifting it and putting it in the basket becomes easy.
• And now bake it for just 5 to 6 minutes or till cheese melts and it’s ready. Isn’t it quick and easy too!

Tips For The Perfect Outcome

• Do not bake the base at higher than 180 degrees C otherwise, it will curl up due to heavy airflow inside the air fryer.
• Do not bake the Pizza higher than 180 degrees C otherwise, it will not get crispy from the bottom.
• Do not make it too thin otherwise, it will curl up in the air fryer.
• Prick it nicely otherwise, it will puff up like chapati.
• Take care that you roll the pizza base that fits in your air fryer.
• Once rolled,  keep the pizza base on parchment paper so that you lift it along with the paper and slide it into the air fryer basket.
• You may use any flour or combination of flour like wheat flour, semolina or any other.
• No need to grease the air fryer basket before laying the pizza base or the pizza.
• Once baked, use a spatula to lift it from the air fryer basket.
• If by chance the pizza remains soft from the bottom and the cheese is melted then cover the pizza with a plate and continue baking for a few more minutes.
• Do not try to bake Pizza by laying sauce and toppings directly on the rolled base. This is possible in oven as I have done in my Whole Wheat Pizza but in the air fryer, you do need a cooked pizza base only.

Benefits of Making Pizza in Air Fryer

1. Gets ready quickly, 5 minutes for the base and 5 minutes for the Pizza.
2. Pizza turns out a lot more crispier.

Highlights of This Post

• Pizza base is made with 100% semolina.
• Kneaded dough in my food processor and the dough got ready in less than 2 minutes.
• Instead of water, used whey (Water left after making Paneer) for kneading. Whenever I have whey in my refrigerator, I prefer using it otherwise water only. Make sure you warm the whey before using otherwise the yeast will not activate.
• Proofed the dough in the air fryer after preheating it for 3 minutes at 180 degrees C. And even at low temperature nowadays, (around 10 degrees) my dough got ready in exactly one hour.
• Made Mini Pizzas too, that are ideal to be served as snacks.
• Last and the obvious one for this post, made Pizzas in the Air fryer.

Step By Step Recipe

A. For Pizza Base

• If you are using a store-bought pizza base then skip this section and straight away move to ‘Make Pizza’ section below.
• Take fine semolina, salt, cane sugar and instant yeast in a bowl. (Photo 1)
• Add water and knead into a soft dough. ( I kneaded with whey) (Photo 2)
• Add oil and continue kneading for 10 to 15 seconds more.
• I used my food processor to knead the dough.
• The dough gets ready in less than a minute. (Photo 3)
• If you are kneading by hand then knead it for at least 10 to 15 minutes till the dough stops sticking and becomes smooth.

• Take out the dough, keep it in a greased bowl and turn the dough upside down so that it is well greased from all sides, otherwise the dough may dry out during proofing and develop cracks.
• let it proof for an hour or till the dough doubles in volume.

• (Tip: As it’s very cold nowadays, so I kept the dough in the air fryer after preheating it for 3 minutes at 180 degrees C and it proofed well in exactly one hour)

• Take out the dough, knead it for 30 seconds.
• Divide the dough into 5 or 6 pieces.

• Dust a little dry flour on the kitchen counter and roll a round pizza base. Keep the size that fits in your air fryer basket.
• Keep the base thin only as it rises while baking also.

• After rolling, take out the air fryer basket, put the rolled dough, and leave it for 5 minutes for second proofing.
• Prick nicely using a fork otherwise, it will puff up like a balloon while baking.

• Preheat the air fryer (without the basket) for 3 minutes at 180 degrees C.
• After 3 minutes, insert the air fryer basket into it and bake the pizza base for 4 to 5 minutes.
• The pizza base is ready.

• Let it cool on a wire rack or make pizza immediately.
• Once cooled completely, you can store these in a ziplock bag and keep in the refrigerator. I made 3 Pizza bases of roughly 6” each, 3 mini pizza bases and one garlic bread with this much dough.

B. Make Pizza

• Preheat air fryer for 3 minutes at 180 degrees C.
• Take pizza base, brush oil on the edges.
• Apply pizza sauce, veggies and cheese.

• Keep it on the air fryer basket and bake for 5 minutes at 180 degrees C.
• Lift it using a spatula.
• Serve with love, Strawberry Mojito optional.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q) Can I make Pizza directly after rolling the pizza base?

• No. Do not try to bake Pizza by laying sauce and toppings directly on rolled base. This is possible in oven as I have done in my Whole Wheat Pizza but in air fryer, you do need a cooked pizza base only.
• If you do so, it remains uncooked from the bottom.

Q) How to get a crisp base?

• Brush oil on the edges before applying sauce etc.
• Do not bake at a temperature higher than 180 degrees C.
• If by chance the pizza remains soft from the bottom and the cheese is melted then cover the pizza with a lid or steel plate and continue baking for a few more minutes.

Q) Can I keep The Pizza Dough In the Refrigerator Or Freezer?

After the first rise of the dough (that is after step 9 of ‘making dough’ method), you can keep it in refrigerator up to a day or in the freezer for up to 3 months. Whenever you need to make, take out 30 minutes before making so that it softens up. And then proceed as usual. If in the freezer, take out and keep in refrigerator overnight. When becomes soft, take out and proceed.

But, I will repeat that fresh base tastes the best.

Q) New To Bread Baking?

If you are new to bread making or have some inhibitions in using yeast, then my suggestion is that you first go through the basics by reading ALL ABOUT YEAST and BASICS OF BREAD MAKING.

Once you get familiar with yeast then the pizza base is good to start with. You get an idea of the yeast, dough etc and then can move easily to bake loaves of bread. You do not require a loaf tin. No fear of cracks or getting a perfect loaf of bread.

Pizza Collection

If you are fond of Pizzas, then have a look at my collection of different types of Pizzas which include vegan and gluten-free pizzas too:

• Whole Wheat Pizza
• Pizza Muffins (without yeast)
• No Yeast Pizza (or Jain Pizza Recipe)
• Vegan Pizza using Sourdough base
• Millet Pizza (without Yeast) (Perfect for Fasts too)
• Pizza Rolls
• Rolled Pizza or Stromboli
• Focaccia

Isn’t it amazing! Do try and share your feedback regarding this.

Let’s Connect

I hope you have liked this recipe for making Whole Wheat Pizza Base and will surely try it out for your loved ones.

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