Sausage Pizza
Posted Sep 23, 2024
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This is the best sausage pizza recipe. Homemade pizza dough, is topped with delicious pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and lots of sausage! Learn how to make sausage pizza at home and skip the takeout!
I was born & raised in Chicago, and started working at a local pizza restaurant when I was 14 – so I learned to appreciate great pizza from a very young age. This sausage pizza recipe is pizzeria quality but made in the comfort of your own home!
This recipe is made using my homemade pizza dough and homemade pizza sauce so it takes 30 minutes to make. It’s loaded with sausage and mozzarella cheese and is so delicious you may never order pizza again! 😉
Sausage Pizza: Ingredients & Substitutions
- Pizza dough. I suggest this homemade pizza dough, but store-bought works well too.
- Pizza Sauce. this is the best homemade pizza sauce! You can use store-bought, if desired.
- Italian Sausage. choose your favorite, mild, medium, spicy, etc. .
- Mozzarella cheese. You can substitute some of the mozzarella with different cheese varieties like cheddar, but mozzarella yields the most authentic taste. You can also add a sprinkle of parmesan on top.
How to Make Sausage Pizza
Let’s walk through this sausage pizza recipe together, and don’t forget to watch the video.
Begin by cooking the sausage. You can do this in advance to save time. Either crumble the sausage into a nonstick skillet or form 1 tsp balls of sausage with your hands and drop them into a nonstick skillet.
Then, cook the sausage over medium-high heat until browned, stirring often. If crumbling the sausage, be sure to break it into smaller pieces as you cook it.
Once cooked, set aside.
Now it’s time to assemble the sausage pizza. Begin by rolling out the pizza dough into a 14” circle on a piece of parchment paper (for easy transfer to the pizza stone).
Then, spread the pizza sauce evenly over the dough.
Next, sprinkle 1 cup of mozzarella cheese evenly over the sauce, save the rest for later.
Then, evenly distribute the cooked sausage on top of the cheese and add the remaining 2 cups mozzarella cheese on top of the sausage.
Use a pizza peel to transfer the pizza on the parchment paper onto the baking stone in the oven.
Bake the pizza in the preheated oven for 12-15 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted.
Once the sausage pizza has finished cooking, transfer it from the oven (using the pizza peel) to a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes.
After it has cooled slightly, cut the sausage pizza with pizza scissors or transfer to a large cutting board and use a pizza cutter, and serve.
Serve
I suggest serving this pizza with a salad like burrata salad, panzanella salad, spinach salad, or kale salad.
You can also sprinkle the top with crushed red pepper flakes and parmesan cheese. Most of my family likes to dip our pizza in ranch dressing!
Store/Freeze
Let the cheese pizza cool completely before storing in a single layer in an airtight container. It will last for up to 5 days in the refrigerator. You can also freeze it for up to 1 month.
Reheat in the microwave or in the oven set to warm.
Sausage Pizza Recipe FAQS
Yes. Since this pizza only bakes for 12-15 minutes in the oven, you want to make sure the sausage is fully cooked before adding it to the pizza.
In this recipe, the answer is both. There are two layers of cheese that hold the sausage onto the pizza.
If you want to add more toppings to this pizza, you can add them with the cooked sausage before the second layer of cheese. Some suggestions included (but are not limited to):
Green Peppers
Diced Onion
Black Olives
Pepperoni
Mushrooms
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Sausage Pizza Recipe
Ingredients
- pizza dough
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- 3 cups mozzarella cheese (12 oz)
- 8 oz Italian sausage
Instructions
Cook the sausage:
- You can crumble the sausage into a nonstick skillet or form 1 tsp balls of sausage with your hands and drop them into a nonstick skillet.
- Then, cook the sausage over medium-high heat until browned, stirring often. If crumbling the sausage, be sure to break it into smaller pieces as you cook it.
- Once cooked, set aside.
Preheat the Pizza Stone
- Put a pizza stone in the oven and preheat the oven to 500 degrees F.
Assemble the Pizza
- Roll out the pizza dough to a 14” circle on a piece of parchment paper (for easy transfer to the pizza stone).
- Spread pizza sauce evenly over the dough.
- Sprinkle 1 cup of mozzarella cheese evenly over the sauce.
- Evenly distribute the cooked sausage on top of the cheese.
- Add the remaining 2 cups mozzarella cheese on top of the sausage.
- Use a pizza peel to transfer the pizza on the parchment paper onto the baking stone in the oven.
- Bake the pizza in the preheated oven for 12-15 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted.
- Remove the pizza from the oven (using the pizza peel) and transfer it to a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes.
- Cut with pizza scissors or transfer to a large cutting board and use a pizza cutter, and serve.
Video
Notes
- Pizza dough. I suggest this homemade pizza dough, but store-bought works well too.
- Pizza Sauce. this is the best homemade pizza sauce! You can use store-bought, if desired.
- Italian Sausage. choose your favorite, mild, medium, spicy, etc.
- Green Peppers
- Diced Onion
- Black Olives
- Pepperoni
- Mushrooms
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
