This Italian Sausage and Pepperoni Pizza is a Friday night time favourite, and it’s 1,000,000 occasions higher than your normal boxed pizza! This submit will present you precisely what to do and how you can make it—It’s Straightforward!
Dustin and I’ve by no means agreed on what kind of pizza we like finest. I do know. Loopy, huh? How can we nonetheless be collectively if we are able to’t agree on one thing as very important to marriage as pizza?
You already know we each love our pizza. However with out fail, Dustin will at all times be an Italian Sausage and Pepperoni Pizza kinda man. Me? I like selection! I bounce from the Hawaiian to the Vegetarian to the Supreme to the…I think about you get my level.
Dustin is the way in which he’s as a result of meat-only toppings are his jam. Add some breakfast bacon and perhaps some salami and he’s in heaven.
Finally, I made a decision to embrace Dustin’s beloved pizza. However…in my very own means. I wasn’t going to make use of mediocre Italian sausage or low-cost, skinny pepperoni discovered within the majority of frozen pizzas. Nope. I purchased freshly made candy Italian sausage hyperlinks from my butcher and some nitrate and nitrite free pepperoni. Yep, my means.
Substances
Contadina(R) Fast Pizza Sauce:
½ (12 ounce) can CONTADINA® Tomato Paste
1 teaspoon dried oregano, crushed
1 teaspoon dried basil, crushed
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon onion powder
½ teaspoon sugar
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
Fleischmann’s® Straightforward Pizza Crust:
3 ¼ cups all-purpose flour, or extra as wanted
2 (.25 ounce) envelopes FLEISCHMANN’S® Pizza Crust Yeast or RapidRise® Yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
1 ½ teaspoons salt
1 ⅓ cups very heat water (120 levels F to 130 levels F)
⅓ cup oil
Toppings:
1 (6 ounce) package deal HORMEL® Pepperoni
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, or extra to style
Instructions
Directions Guidelines
Step 1
For sauce: Mix all sauce elements with 1/2 cup water in a medium bowl; put aside for flavors to develop whereas making crust. Freeze remaining paste .
Step 2
For crusts: Mix 2 cups of flour with the dry yeast, sugar and salt. Add the water and oil and combine till properly blended (about 1 minute). Progressively add sufficient remaining flour slowly, till a gentle, sticky dough ball is fashioned.
Step 3
Knead for about 4 minutes, on a floured floor, till dough is clean and elastic. Add extra flour, if wanted. (If utilizing RapidRise® Yeast, let dough relaxation, coated, for 10 minutes.)
Step 4
Divide dough in half. Pat every half (with floured fingers) right into a 12-inch greased pizza pan OR roll dough to suit pans.
Step 5
For pizzas: Preheat oven to 425 levels F. High crusts with sauce, pepperoni and cheese.
Step 6
Bake for 18 to twenty minutes till crusts are browned and cheese is bubbly. For finest outcomes, rotate pizza pans between high and backside oven racks midway via baking.
