Sausage Pizza Recipe

• servings: 12 servings
• active time: 20 minutes
• total time: 45 minutes

Ingredients

▢ pizza dough

▢ 1 cup pizza sauce

▢ 3 cups mozzarella cheese (12 oz)

▢ 8 oz Italian sausage

Directions

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.

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 slice
• Calories: 241 kcal
• Total Fat: 13 g
• Saturated Fat: 6 g
• Unsaturated Fat: 6 g
• Cholesterol: 36 mg
• Sodium: 667 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 19 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1 g
• Total Sugars: 3 g
• Protein: 12 g