Sausage Pizza
Sun-dried tomatoes and chicken sausage combine for a wonderful slice of pizza. Originally served as part of: Sausage Pizza.
Ingredients
- pizza dough
- 1 tablespoon cornmeal
- kosher salt
- 1/4 cup sun-dried tomato pesto (Trader Joe's)
- chicken, leftover sausage and peppers (sliced)
- 4 ounces fresh mozzarella (sliced)
- 1 tablespoon Pecorino romano cheese (Locatelli) (grated)
- dried oregano
- dried red pepper flakes
Instructions
As soon as the pizza dough is set aside to rise, we start to pre-heat the oven to 450 degrees with the pizza stone on the bottom shelf of the oven.
When the dough is doubled in size, we remove the dough from the bowl and punch it down. We separate the dough into two balls. Each ball is spread into a flat circle on our pizza peel that is covered with half the cornmeal and a sprinkling of salt. Prior to putting the toppings on the dough, we give the peel a good shake to make sure that the dough will slide off when we put it into the oven.
We spread half the tomato pesto on the crust. Next we layer on the sausage and peppers, mozzarella and Locatelli. We sprinkle on the dried oregano and slide the pizza into the oven on to the stone. We continue with the second pizza on the pizza peel.
The pizzas are cooked for about 15-20 minutes (until the cheese is bubbling and the bottom of the crust is browned). We remove the pizza with tongs to a clean cutting board and serve the pizza sprinkled with hot pepper flakes.
Ingredients
- pizza dough
- 1 tbsp cornmeal
- kosher salt
- ¼ cup sun-dried tomato pesto (Trader Joe's)
- leftover chicken sausage and peppers (sliced)
- 4 oz fresh mozzarella (sliced)
- 1 tbsp Pecorino Romano (Locatelli) (grated)
- dried oregano
- dried red pepper flakes
Instructions
What's a kid job?
A Kid job is a step kids can help with, with a grown-up nearby, not one they do on their own. Every kid is different, so go by what your child can do rather than by age. Roughly:
- Little ones (about 2 to 4) can stir, pour in ingredients a grown-up has measured, tear lettuce, wash vegetables and sprinkle toppings.
- Older kids (about 5 to 8) can also measure and level, crack eggs, whisk, roll and cut out dough, and put things together.
- Bigger kids can read the recipe aloud, keep track of the timer, and take on more of the cooking as they're ready.
Steps with a knife, microplane, skewers, stove, oven, grill or hot oil, or with raw meat, poultry or seafood, are marked Grown-up. Kids can still watch those, from a safe distance.
Grown-up
As soon as the dough is set to rise, heat the oven to 450°F with the pizza stone on the bottom shelf.
Kid job
When the dough has doubled, punch it down and divide it in two. Spread one ball into a flat circle on a peel dusted with half the cornmeal and some salt. Shake the peel to be sure it slides.
Kid job
Spread half the pesto on the crust. Layer on sausage and peppers, mozzarella and Romano, and sprinkle with oregano.
Grown-up
Slide the pizza onto the stone and make the second one. Bake each 15 to 20 minutes, until the cheese bubbles and the bottom is browned. Pull onto a board with tongs and serve with pepper flakes.