Sausage Pizza (Pizza alla Salsiccia) |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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The combination of Italian sausage, fennel, and red onion combines pleasant spicy heat with intriguing anise flavor for a complex-tasting pizza. Ingredients:
1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil |
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper |
1 (4-ounce) link sweet turkey italian sausage |
1/2 cup vertically sliced fennel bulb |
1/2 cup thinly vertically sliced red onion (about 1 small onion) |
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt |
2/3 cup chopped seeded tomato (about 2 tomatoes) |
1 (10-inch) basic pizza dough |
1/4 cup (1 ounce) grated fresh parmigiano-reggiano cheese |
Directions:
1. Position an oven rack in lowest setting. Place a pizza stone on lowest rack.
2. Preheat oven to 500°. Preheat pizza stone 30 minutes before baking pizza.
3. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add pepper to pan; cook 10 seconds. Remove casings from sausage. Add sausage, fennel, and onion to pan; sauté 4 minutes or until browned, stirring to crumble sausage. Stir in salt. Add tomato; sauté 2 minutes or until tender. Remove from heat.
4. Spread sausage mixture over Basic Pizza Dough, leaving a 1/2-inch border. Slide dough onto preheated pizza stone, using a spatula as a guide.
5. Bake at 500° for 8 minutes or until crust is golden. Remove from pizza stone. Sprinkle with cheese. Cut pizza into 8 wedges.
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