The sausage pizza is part of the big pizza family, it’s spicy, juicy, and flavorful. It is ready in less than 30 minutes and it beast the delivery pizza in all senses. Try this sausage pizza once and it will become a keeper.
Whenever you are craving hot and cheesy pizza, this recipe is your savior. The pizza with sausage is one of those easy recipes to which you just need to add an extra topping at your preference to get a delicious final result. You can use various types of sausage, obviously the most suitable is the one made with pork and various flavors, which you normally find in the supermarket.
The fun part of any pizza is that you can play with the ingredients and their amounts. As well as you can try out the different combinations and find out which of them better suit your taste. In this recipe, I will present to you my favorite combination of toppings for the sausage pizza.
Ingredients for the sausage pizza
A delicious and tantalizing sausage pizza requires the sausage as the main ingredient. I like to combine both pork sausage with chicken sausage. One is lean the other is fat, and the flavors they add to this dish are exactly what I’m looking for.
I can’t image a sausage pizza without a hot note in it. Therefore, I couldn’t skip the pepperoni, it will enhance the taste of the meat and make everything tastier.
You can’t skip the tomato sauce. It is necessary to provide the needed moist for the pizza as well as the sweet-sour taste.
The cheeses, of course, the all mighty cheeses. I find it absolutely perfect to combine mozzarella cheese with gorgonzola and top it all together next to the sausages. This recipe of the pizza with sausage indicates moderate proportions of tomato and mozzarella. The ingredients are balanced so as not to weigh down the base. However, if you prefer extremely stringy slices of pizza where the mozzarella flavor predominates, you can double the amount of mozzarella and eliminate the tomato sauce.
If you love a pizza overflowing with topping, why not add a generous handful of porcini mushrooms to the sausage? These ingredients bind very well together. I was out of it, however, I don’t skip them whenever I have them in my kitchen.
Here is the list of ingredients for 2 regular pizza:
- Pizza dough
- Pork sausage
- Chicken sausage
- Pepperoni
- Tomato sauce
- Gorgonzola cheese
- Mozzarella cheese
- Black olives
How to make pizza dough
The most important ingredient of the pizza is, of course, the dough. The Italians are known to be the best cooks not by chance. I was lucky enough to travel to this mesmerizing and colorful country and to taste the real pizza from first-class chefs. Nothing compares to fresh-made pizza taken out of the wood oven.
However, we need to get back to reality and make the best of what we have. If you don’t have the time to prepare the pizza dough at home, you can buy it from the store. If instead of the ready-made base you want to prepare the dough yourself, cut out a couple of hours and dedicate yourself to preparing the pizza dough. Choose among the various types of flour the one you prefer or that intrigues you. See how to prepare pizza dough from scratch and I guarantee you will never again order delivery pizza.
How to make sausage pizza
To start making the pizza, first, preheat the oven. That Italian-like pizza is cooked in an oven heated at 200-220 degrees. This is the right temperature for home ovens, not for the wood-fired ovens.
While the oven is preheating, proceed to the dough. Knead the dough before stretching it. Then separate it into 2 equal parts, which means you will have 2 delicious sausage pizzas. Then stretch the dough using a rolling pin. Or, you can stretch it by hand. Once you have reached the right shape, it’s time to top it with the rest of the ingredients.
The first to cover the surface of the rolled dough is the tomato sauce will go first. Then sprinkle a few drops of olive oil. Spread some grated mozzarella all over the surface, lane some pepperoni, and spread some chunks of sausage all over the soon-to-be pizza.
Also, add pieces of the gorgonzola cheese here and there and top with slices of black olives. Now your pizza is ornamented and is ready to go to the preheated oven for a beautiful transformation.
How long to bake the sausage pizza?
Once you insert the tray into the oven, allow about 7 or 10 minutes for it to bake well. It will not take long for the magic to happen. For this pizza, in particular, 7-10 minutes are necessary to ensure that the sausage chunks are cooked thoroughly and that the dough is also penetrated well by the heat.
As soon as the top is golden, take the pizza out and slice it into 4 equal parts. You may sprinkle some parmesan on top for an extra cheese flavor. Serve while still hot. Watch out not to get burnt with this delicious sausage pizza. Enjoy!
Italian Sausage Pizza Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound pizza dough
- 2 pork sausage
- 1 chicken sausage
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella
- 1 cup gorgonzola
- 1 cup tomato sauce for pizza
- 1/2 cup black olives sliced
- 1/2 cup shredded parmesan optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees
- Stretch the dough to the desired shape and diameter (to cover the baking tray)
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper and put the pizza dough over
- Spread the tomato sauce and sprinkle a few olive oil drops over the pizza dough
- Sprinkle the shredded mozzarella
- Spread the chunks of sausage all over the surface
- Add pieces of gorgonzola cheese
- Add the black olive slices
- Bake for 7-10 minutes, take out of the oven, and sprinkle some parmesan if desired
- Serve while still hot
