This is a delicious pizza. It’s got homemade Italian pork sausage, pepperoni, green peppers and bacon.
Basically a pork lovers pizza with freshly chopped green peppers. I put mozzarella cheese on the pizza sauce. Chopped up some fresh green pepper, then the pepperoni and sausage followed by Colby jack cheese and bacon bits. Bake for 18 minutes at 450 degrees (F). I am also including the recipe for the crust below.
1 cup hot water (105-110 degrees F)
1 TBSP active yeast (not rapid rise)
1 TBSP granulated white sugar
3 -3 1/2 cups all purpose flour ( do not use self rising)
1 TBSP olive oil ( you can use vegetable oil if you want)
1 tsp salt
In a large mixing bowl add yeast and sugar then add water. Allow yeast to activate, it will look foamy, about 5 to 10 mins. Add oil salt and flour, mix with a spoon until a lightly firm dough all forms. Use hands to knead the ball until not sticky, add flour if needed. You can use right away or if you want you can let it rise 10 to 20 minutes. Put flour on you counter top and press out by hand until almost the size of your pan. Transfer to baking pan stretching to the correct size. Add sauce and toppings.
This will make 2 thin crust pizzas or 1 hand tossed/thin pan crust pizza.
Let sit 5 minutes after coming out of oven, cut and enjoy.
That looks delicious. How does one make their own Italian sausage? Like, you did the spice mix and casing or something else?.. now I really want homemade sausage. 🤤
All I did was take some fresh ground pork add about 3 tablespoons of Italian seasoning and 2 teaspoons of smoked paprika. Fried it up after mixing well then let it cool in the pan leaving the grease in it don’t cool too much to avoid letting the grease congeal. Using a slotted spatula or spoon to let the grease drip away as much as possible and put it on the pizza. If you want spicy Italian sausage add red pepper flakes to your taste and heat with a small dash of ground cayenne pepper.