Sausage and mushroom pizza
Ann Marie
ingredients
- 2 Pizza dough
- Pizza tomato sauce
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 sweet fresh Italian sausage, removed from casing
- salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- 1/2 pound mushrooms, thinly sliced
- flour for coating
- 3 oz mozzarella cheese
- Grated Parmesan cheese for sprinkling
- 4-6 basil leaves, torn into pieces
directions
- 1
Place a pizza stone in the oven. Preheat the oven to 550 for at least 30 minutes
- 2
Meanwhile in a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium high heat and saute the onion and garlic for 3 minutes, or until soft. Add the sausage and stir until lightly browned. Drain off the fat, season with salt and pepper, and set aside.
- 3
Add 2 tbsp olive oil and saute the mushrooms until they release their moisture and are browned; set aside.
- 4
Lay an unbaked, shaped pizza round on the the lightly floured pizza stone. Add a ladle of tomato sauce to the center. Use the bottom of the ladle to swirl out a spiral of sauce to cover the surface, Leaving about a 1 inch border. Top with half of the mozzarella. Distribute half the sausage mixture and mushrooms evenly over the mozzarella. Sprinkle with Parmesan and half the basil.
- 5
Bake for 4 to 6 minutes, or until the crust is puffy and browned. Remove from the oven, cut into wedges, and serve at once. Repeat to make 2 pizzas.
notes
Best served with a cold one!
Source: Ann
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