Sausage Pizza (Pizza alla Salsiccia)

By SaraB

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil
• 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• 1 (4-ounce) link sweet turkey Italian sausage
• 1/2 cup vertically sliced fennel bulb
• 1/2 cup thinly vertically sliced red onion (about 1 small onion)
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2/3 cup chopped seeded tomato (about 2 tomatoes)
• 1 (10-inch) Basic Pizza Dough
• 1/4 cup (1 ounce) grated fresh Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

Preparation

Step 1

1. Position an oven rack in lowest setting. Place a pizza stone on lowest rack.

2. Preheat oven to 500°. Preheat pizza stone 30 minutes before baking pizza.

3. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add pepper to pan; cook 10 seconds. Remove casings from sausage. Add sausage, fennel, and onion to pan; sauté 4 minutes or until browned, stirring to crumble sausage. Stir in salt. Add tomato; sauté 2 minutes or until tender. Remove from heat.

4. Spread sausage mixture over Basic Pizza Dough, leaving a 1/2-inch border. Slide dough onto preheated pizza stone, using a spatula as a guide.

5. Bake at 500° for 8 minutes or until crust is golden. Remove from pizza stone. Sprinkle with cheese. Cut pizza into 8 wedges.


CALORIES 123 (25% from fat); FAT 3.4g (sat 1g,mono 0.9g,poly 0.2g); IRON 1.4mg; CHOLESTEROL 15mg; CALCIUM 43mg; CARBOHYDRATE 16.7g; SODIUM 365mg; PROTEIN 6.4g; FIBER 1.6g