DURATION :
Prep Time :15 mins
Cook Time :25 mins
Total Time :40 mins
Servings: 8 slices
Ingredients
For The Whole Weat Pizza Crust:
- 2 ½ cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 cup water
- 1 tbsp olive oil
For The Sauce:
- 1 cup your favorite healthy tomato sauce My Roasted Tomato Sauce recipe works well.
For The Pizza:
- 1/4 tsp dried oregano
- 1/4 tsp dried thyme
- 1/4 tsp dried basil
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup nitrate-free and nitrite-free Pepperoni sliced
- 1 link sweet Italian sausage casing removed
- 6 oz fresh mozzarella cheese thinly sliced
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
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Heat a non-stick skillet to medium-high heat. Cook Italian sausage until well-browned, making sure to break into bite-size pieces. Once browned, allow to cool. Set aside for later.
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Spread the tomato sauce over the pizza dough, leaving about 1/2 inch around the outside edge for the crust. Sprinkle sauce with oregano, basil, thyme, salt and pepper.
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Spread the mozzarella slices evenly across the pizza. Arrange the crumbled sweet Italian sausage and pepperoni slices over the mozzarella.
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Place the pizza into the oven and bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until the crust edges are golden and the cheese is melted. After taking the pizza out of the oven, allow it to cool for a few minutes so that the cheese has time to set. Slice pizza and serve
Recipe Notes:
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I added 1 teaspoon of oil in the pan to brown the sausage.
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Break up the sausages into little chunks before adding it to the plan, because it’s a lot more difficult to crumble them once cooked.
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I used a pizza paddle and stone to make the Italian Sausage Pepperonni
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If you plan to use one make sure that you build the pizza on the paddle.
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Remember to flour the paddle well so can easily transfer the pizza into the oven.
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I stretched the dough into an 11 ½ to 12 ½ inch round, maybe 1/8 to ¼ inch thick which you are free to adjust based on your preference.
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If you don’t have a paddle no worries, you can flip your baking sheet the other way around instead.
