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    🏠Home » Recipes » Pizza Recipes

    4 Cheese Pizza

    Sep 1, 2023 by Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan · Last modified: Sep 11, 2023 · 4 Comments

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    5 from 2 votes

    This delicious 4 Cheese Pizza is made with an easy homemade garlic butter crust and loads of melted cheese. Add some chicken for a gourmet white chicken pizza you will love.

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    • 🧀Ingredients
    • 👨‍🍳How to Make 4-Cheese Pizza
    • ✔️Tips and Options
    • ❓FAQs
    • Step-by-Step Photo Instructions
    • 📖 Recipe
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    With shredded mozzarella cheese, shredded white cheddar cheese, feta cheese crumbles, and grated Parmesan cheese added to butter and garlic-coated crust and a little fresh tomato, the taste is terrific. Adding chicken is the final touch to make this one great pizza.

    You could call this Pizza Quattro Formaggi, which means "four cheese pizza" in Italian and is a classic Italian dish. The cheese is usually melted. Varieties can vary some but usually include mozzarella and commonly combined with gorgonzola, Parmigiano Reggiano, and goat cheese. It may be made with or without tomato sauce—rossa (red) or bianca (white).

    Check out these other pizza recipes, like How to Make Pizza Dough and Cook Homemade Pizza, French Bread Pizza, Biscuit Pizza, Crock Pot Pizza Casserole, and Low-Carb Tortilla Pizza, which includes a variation of this recipe.

    🧀Ingredients

    • Pizza Dough—all-purpose flour, salt, sugar, yeast
    • Garlic butter for crust—butter, garlic powder
    • Cheese—mozzarella, white cheddar, feta, and Parmesan, but use what you like.
    • Highly recommend—Roma tomato, precooked chicken (like rotisserie chicken)
    • Suggested topping—green pepper, red onion, cooked crumbled bacon

    👨‍🍳How to Make 4-Cheese Pizza

    1. Mix crust ingredients completely, form into a ball, cover, and let rise until double in size.—about 30-40 minutes.
    2. Spread the dough on a well-oiled 12-inch pizza pan or ¼ sheet baking tray.
    3. Combine melted butter and garlic powder—brush on the made-out dough.
    4. Top with cheeses and other toppings of choice.
    5. Bake in a preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes.

    This is a summary of the steps and ingredients. See the recipe card or the step-by-step photo instructions below for full instructions.

    ✔️Tips and Options

    The dough

    • The dough, after mixing, should be soft and a little fluffy. It will be a little sticky. Add a bit more water or flour to adjust if needed.
    • The dough can be made ahead and refrigerated or frozen. See How to Make Pizza Dough for details.
    • This pizza uses a standard-thickness crust but makes more or less pizza dough to adjust the thickness of the crust.
    • I recommend AP (all-purpose) flour or bread fluid. You can substitute up to 50% whole wheat, but this recipe calls for a white crust. The whole wheat will usually need more fluid and a touch of honey.
    • Non-wheat flour is probably not a good substitute in this recipe. Gluten-free baking is a whole other thing and not just some substituting.

    Sauce and Toppings.

    • I like using thin slices of Roma tomatoes for a little more Italian tomato-like taste.
    • The chicken, which is optional, can be any cooked chicken you happen to have. Perfect use for leftover rotisserie chicken.
    • The main feature of this recipe is the combination of cheeses, and I suggest following my suggestions. But Gorgonzola cheese, Fontina cheese, Romano cheese, goat cheese, and Provolone cheese are also good choices.
    • Ricotta is used mainly in New York Style White, which is a different recipe.

    ↕️How to make this smaller "for two" or "family size" recipe

    This is a very easy recipe to cut in half or double. As written, this makes a 12-inch medium-sized pizza—about eight slices and will fit on an eighth-size sheet pan. A half recipe makes an 8-9 inch small pizza, and a double recipe makes a large 16-inch pizza that works on a quarter sheet pan, also.

    1. Use the recipe card and adjust the number of servings to half or double.
    2. Use the amount of ingredients in the ingredient list, not the instructions—those do not adjust.
    3. Cook for the same amount of time.

    ❓FAQs

    What other topping would be good on 4-cheese pizza?

    In addition to the variety of cheeses mentioned above, you can add almost anything you like. Add a tomato-base pizza sauce, use other spices, or sprinkle with fresh basil. Add some mushrooms, black olives, or caramelized onions. And I have been known to add some cooked Italian sausage or pepperoni.

    How to store leftover pizza?

    Store leftover pizza sealed in an airtight container, like a Ziplock bag. Refrigerate for 3 days or freeze for 3 months.

    How to reheat leftover pizza?

    Leftover pizza is best reheated in a medium oven on a preheated pizza stone. You can reheat it in a microwave, giving a soggy crust or a skillet, which is good for the crust but not the best for the cheese.

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    Step-by-Step Photo Instructions

    disolving yeast in water.

    In a large mixing bowl, add 1 cup warm water, ½ pack of rapid or quick yeast, ½ teaspoon sugar, ½ teaspoon salt, and 1 ½ teaspoons olive oil.

    mixing dough in bowl.

    Add 2 ¼ cups flour and mix. Add more flour if it is too sticky, but you are making a light dough, not a heavy brick. Add more water if needed.

    dough rising in bowl.

    Cover, place in a warm place, and let rise until double in size—about 30-40 minutes.

    topping ingredients on black board for pizza.

    While the dough is rising, prep any toppings. Precooked rotisserie chicken, green bell pepper, red onion, and Roma tomato are recommended.

    coating the dough with butter and garlic.

    Preheat oven to 375° convection or 400° in a conventional oven. Spread the dough on a well-oiled medium 12-inch pizza pan. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a microwave, mix with 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, and spread thinly over the dough.

    white pizza on pan ready for oven.

    Top with cheeses and other toppings of choice.

    slice of 4 cheese pizza on a white plate.

    Bake in an oven for 20 to 25 minutes.

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    📖 Recipe

    whole cooked 4 cheese pizza.

    4 Cheese Pizza

    From Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan
    This delicious 4 Cheese Pizza is made with an easy homemade garlic butter crust and loads of melted cheese. Add some chicken for a gourmet white chicken pizza you will love.
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    5 from 2 votes
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    Prep Time: 1 hour hour
    Cook Time: 25 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 1 hour hour 25 minutes minutes
    Servings #/Adjust if desired 8

    Ingredients

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    Dough

    • 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
    • 1 cups water - warm
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon sugar
    • ½ pack rapid or quick yeast

    Toppings

    • 1 tablespoon butter
    • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
    • ¼ cup Parmesan cheese - grated
    • ⅓ cup feta
    • ⅓ cup white cheddar - shredded
    • ⅓ cup mozzarella - shredded

    Optional toppings

    • 1 Roma tomato - sliced ⅛ inch
    • 1 cup cooked chicken - optional
    • ¼ red onion - medium thinly sliced
    • ½ green pepper - diced
    • 2 strips bacon - Cooked crumbled
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    Instructions

    • In a large mixing bowl, add 1 cup warm water, ½ pack of rapid or quick yeast, ½ teaspoon sugar, ½ teaspoon salt, and 1 ½ teaspoons olive oil.
      disolving yeast in water
    • Add 2 ¼ cups flour and mix. Add more flour if it is too sticky, but you are making a light dough, not a heavy brick. Add more water if needed. Cover, place in a warm place, and let rise until double in size—about 30-40 minutes.
      dough rising in bowl
    • While the dough is rising, prep any toppings. Precooked rotisserie chicken, green bell pepper, red onion, and Roma tomato are recommended.
      ingredients on black board for pizza
    • Preheat oven to 375° convection or 400° in a conventional oven. Spread the dough on a well-oiled medium 12-inch pizza pan. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a microwave, mix with 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, and spread thinly over the dough.
      coating the dough with butter and garlic
    • Top with cheeses and other toppings of choice.
      white pizza on pan ready for oven
    • Bake in an oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
      slice of 4 cheese pizza on a white plate.
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    Recipe Notes

    Pro Tips:

    1. This is for a standard thickness 12-inch crust.
    2. Changing the size of the pizza and pan sizes are discussed in the post.
    3. The dough needs to be a bit light, so it will be a little sticky.
    4. The chicken is pre-cooked leftovers from wherever you want it—usually rotisserie chicken.
    5. I don't recommend changing the cheeses much. It is the feature of this recipe but options are in the recipe post.

    To adjust the recipe size:

    You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.

    Nutrition Estimate

    Calories : 238.2 kcal (12%)Carbohydrates : 28.9 g (10%)Protein : 12.4 g (25%)Fat : 7.8 g (12%)Saturated Fat : 4.1 g (21%)Polyunsaturated Fat : 0.6 gMonounsaturated Fat : 2 gTrans Fat : 0.1 gCholesterol : 33 mg (11%)Sodium : 354.2 mg (15%)Potassium : 132.9 mg (4%)Fiber : 1.3 g (5%)Sugar : 1 g (1%)Vitamin A : 272.6 IU (5%)Vitamin C : 7.3 mg (9%)Calcium : 136 mg (14%)Iron : 2 mg (11%)
    Serving size is my estimate of a normal size unless stated otherwise. The number of servings per recipe is stated above. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
    Course : Main Course
    Cuisine : Italian

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    Originally Published: September 7, 2011. Updated with expanded options, refreshed photos, and a table of contents to help navigation.

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    1. Chris

      September 11, 2011 at 6:33 am

      Dude, that looks wicked good! Alexis and I enjoy white pizza as our favorite but use alfredo based sauce. The 4 cheeses that you use bring a lot of taste to the pizza and I'll be giving this a try soon. Bookmarked this post.

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    2. Mumsfilibaba

      September 10, 2011 at 4:29 am

      Mmm. Can I have a slice? :P

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    3. Barefeet In The Kitchen

      September 08, 2011 at 2:16 pm

      This looks delicious. I'd love a slice of this for lunch.

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      September 07, 2011 at 4:01 pm

      Beautiful photo... just wanted to stop and say thanks for being such an active part of erecipecards... Love your recipes... Far as i am concerned, September is the best month for grilling!

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