Three Cheese Sausage Pizza
Three Cheese Sausage Pizza
We were out of town visiting family on Friday, so pizza Friday came on Saturday. Whatever day is pizza Friday, pizza makes for a good weeknight or weekend meal anytime. I have made many sausage pizzas with just sausage, pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese. However, I was looking to amplify the sausage flavor this time. I am always experimenting with several ingredients to develop a pizza that satisfies all my taste buds. I found that by using several types of cheeses it
really turns a plain sausage pizza into something extra special. The rich, creamy, salty and nutty flavor of the gruyere cheese pairs well with sausage. Mozzarella of course is a pizza mainstay cheese with its slightly tangy and milky flavor. The parmesan with its slightly sweet and nutty flavor adds that savory level of umami.
The Crust:
I used my own food processor pizza crust recipe. My recipe uses a combination of wheat and 00 flour. I developed this recipe to try to recreate the pizzas I had tasted in Italy. This recipe makes for a tender and silky pizza crust. You can also use a premade crust or your own favorite recipe. This recipe uses 1/3 of the dough recipe.
Ingredients
- 1/3 pound Italian ssausage
- 1/2 cup slivered red onion
- 1/4 cup pizza sauce (I make my own click link to discover recipe)
- 1 ball pizza dough (I make my own click link to discover recipe)
- 1-2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Minced Garlic
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup shredded gruyere cheese
- 1/4 cup shredded parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- For: 1 pizza (makes 4 servings)
- Preparation: 25 min
- Cooking: 35 min
- Ready in: 1 h
Instructions
- Preheat the oven with pizza stone in it to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, once heated for 10 minutes turn down oven to 450 degrees.
- Brown the sausage in frying pan until almost fully brown.
- Add the slivered red onion and sauté for 5 minutes longer with the sausage.
- Remove from heat and use paper towel to lightly pat the excess grease from the sausage and onion mixture.
- While cooking sausage and red onion mixture roll pizza dough into 12-inch circle and place on pizza peel.
- Poke dough with fork and baste with olive oil and minced garlic
- Par bake pizza dough on stone for 7-10 minutes until golden brown and almost crispy.
- Remove pizza crust from oven then top with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, sausage and red onion mixture, gruyere cheese, parmesan cheese and then sprinkle with dried oregano.
- Place back on pizza stone and bake another 6-8 minutes until cheeses are melted.
- Remove pizza from oven and rest for 3-5 minutes before slicing into 8 pieces.
- Per serving
- Energy: 452 kcal / 1889 kJ
- Fat: 30.5 g
- Protein: 20 g
- Carbs: 24.6 g
