We’ve heard the arguments against pineapple on pizza: It’s watery, sweet, cloying, syrupy. And that can all be true if you use low-quality canned pineapple. For this pizza, we caramelise fresh pineapple in olive oil and salt, rendering it less sweet, chewier, and just a little salty — and putting each of those arguments to rest in the process.
Before baking our pizza, we spend a few minutes cooking thinly sliced fresh pineapple in our Ooni oven for a flame-cooked fruit with delicious bits of char and small pockets of juiciness. Combine that with pepperoni — a classic brand from your supermarket deli will work just fine here — and sliced, pickled jalapeños, and this pizza takes a big step up from the canned pineapple original that Canadian restaurant owner Sam Panopoulos is credited with creating back in 1962.
If you’ve never tried pineapple on pizza (or if you need a pizza to convince even the staunchest of critics) consider this one your on ramp.