Roasted Red Pepper, Sausage & Mushroom Pizza

Home-made sausage, mushroom and roasted red pepper pizza
Home-made sausage, mushroom and roasted red pepper pizza
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Fresh basil leaves

Ingredients:
1 Pizza Dough
1 Recipe Sauce
2.5 Lb. Freshly Shredded Low Moisture, Whole Milk Mozzarella. I like Galbani.
2 Lb. Sweet Gianelli Italian Sausage Links. Grilled or pan fried to 170°F+, with a little char, broken into rough chunks by hand.
2 Lb. Hot Gianelli Italian Sausage Links. Grilled or pan fried to 170°F+, with a little char, broken into rough chunks by hand.
1 6 oz jar Fire Roasted Red Peppers sliced into 1/2″ x 1″strips if not already cut.
1 Small Red Onion (cut in half pole-to-pole, then into roughly 1/2″ x 1″ pieces.
16 oz White Button Mushrooms, stems removed, sliced 1/4″
16 oz Crimini o small Portobello (Baby Bella) Mushrooms, stems removed, sliced 1/4″,
Freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
Extra Virgin Olive oil
  • Place the oven rack as close to the bottom as possible. Place the pizza steel on the rack and preheat to 550°F for at least an hour.
  • Lightly sauté the onion in a little (1 – 2 tsp) of Olive Oil until it’s slightly softened.
  • Boil the mushrooms in abou 1/4″ of water in a wide pan, until they have released most of their moisture and browned slightly. Then toss with a little olive oil3        .
  • Sprinkle corn meal on the pizza peel (be generous).
  • Flatten the dough by poking it down gently with your fingers more towards the edge then the center. It should be roughly a “flying saucer” shape. Then gently stretch it out and lay it on the pizza paddle.
  • Add a layer of Mozzarella (the cheese goes on first to keep the sauce from making the crust soggy) and a half-dozen blobs of sauce. The sauce spreads out while cooking, so don’t use too much or your pizza will be soggy.
  • Toss some red-pepper strips, a lot of mushrooms and some onions on the top
  • Sprinkle on some sausage. Break the chunks apart with your fingers before you add them.
  • Grate fresh Parmigiano Reggiano over the top, lay down a dozen or so Basil leaves and drizzle with a little bit of Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
  • Slide into oven on hot  steel and bake until the top is browned and the bottom is crispy.

Makes 4 Pizzas