This Asian-inspired Peking Duck Pizza with Caramelized Onions & Hoisin Sauce will be your new favorite! The pizza crust is baked on a baking steel for the ultimate crisp texture.
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I am so excited to partner up with Baking Steel for this post.
As you already know, I'm a girl who loves carbs.
Noodles, pizza, dumplings, and banh mi are at the top of my list.
I've been making pizza regularly for the past 7 or 8 years.
My pizza dough was always made on my trusty pizza stone.
But recently, I found myself in a dire situation. I had placed my pizza stone in the oven, as usual, and cranked up my oven to 500F to heat it up.
CRACK!!!!!!!
What was that sound?! I rushed to the oven. And my heart fell to the floor.
My once-white, stained pizza stone of 8 years... BROKEN. INTO. PIECES.
I deliberated replacing the stone with another pizza stone, but then I recalled seeing a new, revolutionary way of making pizza.
Using the Baking Steel.
What is a baking steel?
Touted as "the world's best consumer cooking surface" by Serious Eats' J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, this Baking Steel was either over-hyped, or was a magical piece of equipment that transforms pizza dough into something heavenly.
I received the Original Baking Steel from Andris (thank you!) and it's a hefty piece of steel, weighing in at 15 lbs.
It's made in the USA, and is a nice rectangular shape (dimensions are 16 x 14 x ¼″) that fits perfectly in a conventional oven.
The surface is flat, which makes it great for pizza dough, pita bread, English muffins, or pancakes, and you could use it as a griddle if you want.
Why use a baking steel?
Once you go steel, you can't go stone.
Why? The heat conductivity in steel is much more even and faster than stone, resulting in a thin, crispy crust.
It's virtually indestructible!
No more broken pizza stones. Or broken hearts.
So how did it perform?
Let's just say, that both my husband and I were awestruck at the texture of the resulting homemade pizza.
I mean, it was phenomenal! Perfectly crispy, light, and bubbly. Everything that I would want in a pizza.
To celebrate this newfound joy of pizza perfection, I decided to go all out and make the most delicious, Asian-inspired Peking Duck Pizza with Caramelized Onions and Hoisin Sauce.
It's something you won't be able to find at your regular pizza joint.
Think of succulent, juicy BBQ duck, 5-spice flavoured caramelized onions, punctuated with the sharpness of red and green onions, tied together with sweet hoisin sauce.
Ingredients you'll need
For this Peking Duck pizza, you'll need:
- pizza dough: you can use any pizza dough you like; homemade or otherwise
- peking duck: roasted Peking duck; or you can get roasted BBQ duck at Chinese BBQ meat shops
- caramelized onions: adds a little sweetness to the the pizza
- garlic paste: made with oil and minced garlic
- Chinese 5-spice powder: added to the caramelized onions to accentuate the duck flavor; you can find it in Asian grocery stores
- red onions
- green onions
- cilantro: optional
- hoisin sauce: is a sweet and salty sauce made with soy beans; adds a final sweetness and complements the savory duck
You can find these ingredients at your local Asian grocery store or supermarket.
How to make it
Prepare the pizza dough accordingly.
Slice the roasted duck.
Make the caramelized onion jam (you can do this ahead of time).
Prepare the garlic paste.
Then assemble the pizza with the toppings.
Bake the pizza on the Baking Steel at 500F for 6-7 minutes, and serve immediately.
Expert tips
Assemble the pizza on parchment paper (not wax paper). While most parchment paper is rated for temperatures of 420-450F, some brands can be used at temperatures up to 500F.
Use a wooden pizza peel for easy transfer of the pizza dough to the oven.
If you don't have a baking steel, you can preheat a large baking sheet in the oven at 500F. Depending on how large your pizza is, you may want to flip the baking sheet upside down so it has a larger flat surface.
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Peking Duck Pizza With Caramelized Onions & Hoisin SauceÂ
For accuracy and precision in baking recipes, use weight (metric) measurements when available.
Ingredients
Pizza Dough:
- 650 g bread flour
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 3 g active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoon olive oil
- 350 ml warm water
Caramelized Onions:
- 1 batch Caramelized Onion Jam
- ½ teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
Garlic Oil Paste:
- 1 C whole garlic cloves
- ¼ C good-quality neutral vegetable oil
Toppings:
- 1 roasted BBQ Peking duck thinly sliced with the skin on
- 1 C caramelized onions
- 3 tablespoon garlic oil paste from above
- 3 green onions chopped
- 2 tablespoon red onions chopped
- 1 small bunch cilantro chopped
- 3 tablespoon hoisin sauce
Instructions
Make the pizza dough:
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients and knead until smooth and elastic. The dough will be slightly sticky. Add a little more flour as needed.
- Cover with plastic wrap and leave to sit for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, knead the dough again, cover, and leave to proof for 2 hours in a warm spot.
Make the caramelized onions:
- To the caramelized onion jam, add ½ teaspoon 5-spice powder and mix.
Make the garlic oil paste:
- In a food processor, add in the garlic and pulse until fine. Drizzle in the oil and continue to pulse until a smooth paste forms.
- Transfer garlic oil paste into a clean jar and store in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
Assemble:
- Place the Baking Steel on the bottom rack of your oven.
- Preheat the oven to 500°F/260°C. (Do this about 1 hour before you plan to bake the pizzas off).
- Dust your work surface with some flour. Divide the pizza dough into 3 portions.
- Lay a piece of parchment paper and stretch out the pizza dough into a circle about 10-12" in diameter, leaving a perimeter for the crust.
- Spread 1 tablespoon garlic oil paste on the surface of the dough. Add the roast bbq duck slices, caramelized onions and green onions.
- Use a pizza paddle and place the pizza dough onto the Baking Steel and cook for 6-7 minutes, until golden brown. You can use the broiler for 2-3 minutes if you prefer a darker crust.
- Remove from oven. Garnish with extra green onions, cilantro, and red onions. Drizzle hoisin sauce on top.
- Slice the Peking Duck pizza and serve immediately. Repeat with the remaining pizzas.
Nutrition
The nutritional information provided should be considered as approximate and is not guaranteed. Please use your best judgment to ensure food is safely prepared and/or a good fit for your diet.
Dough recipe adapted from Baking Steel.
Anjali
What a creative pizza recipe!! I love the addition of the caramelized onions with the duck - can't wait to try this soon!
HEATHER PERINE
I mean you had me at pizza 🙂 but with peking duck?! Game. changer. Can't wait to try!!
Emily Flint
This pizza was so amazing, the garlic oil and hoisin sauce really took it over the top. And now my baking steel is in the mail, LOL! Thank you!
Elise
This looks incredible. What a cool way to make a fancier pizza! I think this would be perfect to impress guests.
Sarah Baumeister
The recipe itself is gorgeous, makes me think of a twist on a BBQ Chicken pizza for some reason. That aside, I'm highly intrigued about the baking steel! So cool.
Linsey
This Peking Duck pizza with the caramelized onion and hoisin sauce is really an excellent choice of adding Asian taste! Great flavor!
Michelle
Thanks Linsey! 🙂
Miss Karen
What if you don't have this baking steel or anything else like it?
Wouldn't a regular pizza pan work just as well?
Michelle
Hi there, you can use a regular pizza pan, however, it won't be as efficient as a baking steel since the steel is heavier, absorbs and delivers more even heating. If you have a large baking sheet, you can preheat that in the oven to mimic the baking steel. Again, the baking sheet is lighter than the steel, so it doesn't retain as much heat as the steel, but it's a little better than a regular pizza pan. Hope that helps.
Stef
What do you mean when you say 1 C of garlic cloves. Do you mean a whole cup of garlic cloves?
Michelle
Hi there, it means 1 Cup of whole garlic cloves.