Sausage, Radicchio and Burrata Pizza

By danaheller

Ingredients

• 3 tbs olive oil, divided
• 1/2 lb mild Italian sausage, removed from casing
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 2 heads radicchio
• 1/4 tsp kosher salt
• 1/2 recipe pizza dough
• freshly ground black pepper
• 4 oz fresh burrata, sliced
• Burrata is available at Whole Foods stores. You can also substitute fresh mozzarella.

Details

Servings 6

Preparation

Step 1

1. Plast a cast-iron pizza pan on the middle rack of the oven and heat to 350 degrees.

2. In a saute pan over medium heat, add 1 tbs olive oil. Saute sausage and fennel seeds, breaking apart the sausage as it cooks. Cook until browned, about 8 to 10 minutes. Set aside.

3. Trim the radicchio and cut it into 3/4-inch slices. Toss in a bowl with 1 tbs olive oil and 1/4 tsp kosher salt. Mound the radicchio on the pizza pan in the oven and roast, stirring and turning with a spatula, until it just begins to caramelize, about 10 minutes. Take the pan out, remove the radicchio and set it aside and return the pan to the oven. Turn the oven up to 450 degrees.

4. Brush the prepared pizza dough with the remaining olive oil. Spread the sausage, then the radicchio, evenly over the pizza. Grind a little black pepper over the top.

5. Slide the parchment paper with the pizza onto an inverted cookie sheet or peel, then transfer both parchment and pizza to the hot pizza pan. Cook until golden and crispy, about 12 to 16 minutes, rotating once halfway through (use the parchment to do so). One minute before the pizza is done, add the burrata slices to the pizza in the oven, so that it gets just melted.

6. Remove the pizza from the oven either by pulling out the parchment paper and sliding the pizza back onto the cookie sheet, or by taking out the hot pizza pan and placing it on a trivet. Slice and serve hot.