Best Smoked Traeger Pizza (Smoking Pizza On Pellet Grill) (2024)

Make perfectly cheesy, crispy crust homemade pizza right on your Traeger grill. Sure, I’m well known for making restaurant-quality homemade pizza in the oven. But this smoked Traeger pizza recipe is about to take over the internet… So fire up the pellet grill and start smoking pizza with me…

Why my Traeger pizza recipe is a favorite

• Super fast smoker recipe.
• Get that wood fire pizza vibe, right on the pellet smoker.
• Make it on a pizza stone OR baking sheet.
• Use any premade crust.
• Choose a high pizza temp to get a nice and crispy crust.
• And for beginners to smoking food – I’m here to walk you through the recipe step by step, look for my video at the bottom of this page.

When you are new to smoking foods and want something easy to cook, or just don’t want to wait 10 hours for a smoked brisket flat, smoking pizza on a pellet grill is perfect!

Try this recipe for fig and prosciutto pizza…

Ingredients

Here’s what you need to make Traeger grill pizza.

• Pizza dough (store bought or homemade pizza dough, which ideally you’ll let rise on a sunny counter 2-6 hours in advance so it grows in size and gets fluffy and pillowy soft)
• Flour (for stretching pizza dough)
• Olive oil
• Pizza sauce
• Mozzarella cheese
• Sausage (or any topping you’d like – try cooked chicken or pepperoni pizza)
• Parmesan cheese
• Parsley

How to make smoked Traeger pizza

Now I’ll walk you through how to cook pizza on Traeger.

1. Preheat Traeger for pizza. Turn on the Traeger pellet grill to preheat at 500°F, with the pizza stone or baking sheet in it for 15 minutes).
2. Prep work station. Dust half the flour on a large cutting board. Add the other half of the flour to the corner of your work space to use as you stretch the dough.
3. Stretch pizza dough by pushing it a few times against the floured cutting board to pick up flour. Then start pinching the outside inch of the pizza dough, in a circular motion, to outline the crust and help form a circle shape. Switch between pressing the center of the dough against a cutting board, and using the back of your knuckles to stretch the dough from underneath, pulling it outwards in a circular motion. Add a little extra flour as you stretch it to a larger size, so it retains the bigger circle shape. (Beginners – see the pizza dough stretching tutorial on Sip Bite Go for more tips.)
4. Prep pizza crust. If using a preheated pizza stone, carefully remove it from the smoker (and close the smoker so the heat stays inside). Prepare the crust by quickly brushing half of the olive oil on the top of the pizza stone or baking sheet. Add the stretched pizza dough on top. Then brush the remaining olive oil on the outside inch of the pizza dough crust (this will make a tasty crust while the pizza smokes on the Traeger).
5. Add toppings. Quickly assemble the pizza toppings, leaving an inch around the outside of the dough without toppings (for the crust). First, spread pizza sauce on the pizza. Top with mozzarella cheese, cooked sausage (or pepperoni) slices, and half the parmesan cheese.
6. Smoke pizza on the pellet grill at 500°F for 10 minutes. Rotate it and smoke pizza for another 5-10 minutes, or until the cheese has melted, and the bottom and pizza crust is golden brown.
7. Let pizza cool and serve it. Transfer smoked pizza to a cutting board (you can let the pizza stone cool down in the Traeger), top with fresh parmesan cheese and fresh parsley, and slice and serve when cool enough to eat.

More pellet grill pizza recipes to try

Now that you know ​​how to cook pizza on Traeger or your favorite pellet smoker, get inspired with my collection of pizza recipes here on Sip Bite Go. For starters, here are some of my favorite pizza flavors, toppings, and sauces…

• Philly cheese steak pizza (load it up with smoked tri tip)
• Pulled pork pizza
• Chicken spinach pizza
• Sauteed onions and peppers
• Caramelized onions
• Tomato pizza sauce recipe
• White pizza sauce recipe

FAQs

More Tasty Grill + Smoker Recipes

• Smoked mac and cheese
• Smoked brisket flat
• 321 ribs
• Beer can chicken on the smoker
• Smoked wings
• Smoked turkey breast
• Whole smoked turkey
• Smoked Traeger pizza
• Smoked whole chicken
• Smoked corn on the cob
• Grilled skirt steak
• Flank steak marinade
• Smoked pulled pork
• Want more? See my lineup of easy smoker recipes

See this Traeger Flatrock grill review.

See my favorite smoker tools and seasonings in my Amazon Storefront.

Meat thermometer recommendations

Every home chef needs a reliable meat thermometer to cook food perfectly.

On Sip Bite Go, you’ll often see me using:

1. Meater thermometer – a fancy wireless thermometer that connects to a phone app – gifted to me from a Traeger partnership.
2. ThermoPro digital thermometer – which has a wire that connects the thermometer to a display box outside the oven/grill.

It’s like being psychic! The great thing about either of the thermometers above is that I don’t have to take the food out of the oven to know the temperature.

How to use ‘em… What I do is stick the digital thermometer in steak, pork, chicken, whatever before cooking them.

While the meat cooks, it reads the temperature so I know exactly what temp meat is as it’s cooking. Without having to take it out and check. It’s really difficult to overcook food when you know exactly what temp it is inside!

Are you a foodie, too?

Hey home chefs, hope that answers all your questions about cooking pizza on a Traeger or whatever pellet smoker you use. If you don’t follow me on instagram you totally should @sipbitego. And for more deliciousness, subscribe to the Sip Bite Go channel and see the Sip Bite Go recipe collection.