Quick & Tasty Sausage and Cheese Pizza

Easy and simple, incredibly tasty, youʼll lick your fingers! Pizza with sausage and cheese cooks very quickly in the oven. In just 15 minutes the dough and filling will be ready, and then you just have to wait for the baking time. Pizza can be different — change the ingredients depending on what you have in the refrigerator.
cook time: 1h 10 min
Caleb Huxley
Quick & Tasty Sausage and Cheese Pizza

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

241
Calories
16g
Fat
15g
Carbs
9g
Protein

Ingredients (5 portions)

For dough:

Water 60 ml
Salt 0.25 tsp
Dry yeast 0.3 tsp
Olive oil 1 tbsp
Wheat flour 100 g

For the sauce:

Tomato paste 70 g
Water 50 ml
Salt to taste
Sugar 1 tsp
Garlic 1 clove
Olive oil 1 tbsp
Basil 0.5 tsp

For filling:

Tomato sauce 3 tbsp
Semi-smoked sausage 100 g
Hard cheese 120 g
Olives 35 g
bell pepper 80 g
Olive oil 0.5 tbsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make pizza with sausage and cheese? First, prepare the tomato sauce so that it infuses a little, becomes more aromatic and tasty. It will also have time to cool down.

Step 2

Step 2
Peel the garlic, wash it, cut into thin slices.

Step 3

Step 3
Heat olive oil in a frying pan. Over moderate heat, fry the garlic slices on both sides for 1 minute. This will give the oil a piquant aroma. Remove the garlic from the pan. If you want garlic to be present in the sauce, pass it through a press or grate it on a fine grater.

Step 4

Step 4
Place tomato paste in the pan and stir. Warm the tomato paste over low heat for 1 minute, stirring.

Step 5

Step 5
Pour water into the pan, stir well. Bring the sauce to a boil.

Step 6

Step 6
Add salt, sugar, basil, stir.

Step 7

Step 7
Simmer the sauce over low heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the pan from the heat and cover with a lid to allow the sauce to infuse. It will become more aromatic and thicken a little.

Step 8

Step 8
Prepare the pizza dough. Olive oil can be replaced with any vegetable oil.

Step 9

Step 9
Sift the flour into a suitable size bowl to enrich it with oxygen. This will increase the leavening ability of the yeast. If you are using dry active yeast, before using it you need to “wake it up”, dilute it in a small amount of warm water and let it sit for about five minutes. Instant yeast like mine, just mix with flour

Step 10

Step 10
Add yeast and salt to the sifted flour and mix. Please note that you may need more or less flour than I did. Focus on the structure of the test. If necessary, add extra flour and, conversely, add a little water.

Step 11

Step 11
Make a funnel in the flour and pour in water at room temperature.

Step 12

Step 12
Stir with a spoon first.

Step 13

Step 13
Add olive oil to the flour mixture, stir and knead the dough with your hands.

Step 14

Step 14
The dough should be homogeneous, soft, but elastic, not sticking to your hands. Wrap the dough in cling film and leave to rest for 30 minutes. During this time, the gluten will develop and the dough will become more pliable and manageable.

Step 15

Step 15
Meanwhile, prepare the ingredients for the filling. You can use any sausage. For hard cheese, take one that melts well. You can also use mozzarella or processed cheese. Choose the remaining ingredients for the filling as desired. If you donʼt want to make homemade tomato sauce, you can use regular ketchup.

Step 16

Step 16
Cut the sausage into thin slices.

Step 17

Step 17
Wash the bell pepper and dry it. Remove seeds and green parts from the pepper. Cut the vegetable as desired. I cut it into rings.

Step 18

Step 18
Grind the cheese on a coarse grater.

Step 19

Step 19
The dough stood a little longer and became more pliable and soft.

Step 20

Step 20
Roll out the dough into a round layer, form small sides. You can do this directly on parchment paper to make it convenient to transfer the dough onto a baking sheet. If you have a special pizza pan, you can use it.

Step 21

Step 21
Brush the pizza base with a thin layer of olive oil.

Step 22

Step 22
Apply cooled tomato sauce evenly.

Step 23

Step 23
Sprinkle with a little grated cheese.

Step 24

Step 24
Place the sausage slices.

Step 25

Step 25
Then bell pepper rings.

Step 26

Step 26
Distribute the olives. You can also take olives.

Step 27

Step 27
Top the pizza with the remaining cheese.

Step 28

Step 28
Bake the pizza in an oven preheated to 190C for about 25 minutes. The edges of the pizza should be slightly browned and the cheese should melt. Baking times may differ from those indicated, as they depend on the operating characteristics of your oven.

Step 29

Step 29
Bon appetit!

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