Spicy Pizza Sausage

Julesong's Note:

Use this cooked spicy sausage on your pizzas! You can cook it up and freeze it in batches to use later, too. Adapted from Cooking Light.

• Total Time: 15 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 5

• 1 lb ground turkey
• 1 1/3 lbs ground lean pork
• 1/2 cup dry red wine
• 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
• 3 tablespoons minced fresh basil
• 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 tablespoon crushed fennel seed
• 1 1/2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
• 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese or 2 tablespoons asiago cheese
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 5 garlic cloves, pressed

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients and stir well.
2. Over medium heat in a large nonstick skillet, brown the sausage, stirring to crumble into pieces of the desired size (I like big-ish chunks rather than "gravel"), about 7 to 9 minutes.
3. Drain well.
4. Use on your pizza.
5. Makes 5 cups (5 servings of 1 cup each, for a large pizza) of pizza sausage – you can put it into Ziplock bags and freeze them for later use, if you like.

Reviews

[cam063]

Very good recipe. I only had 1 lb. of sausage so I cut the ingredients in half and skipped the fennel seed. Used it on pizza and tasted great!

[Kim~In~Canada]

GREAT. I could't get ground turkey or ground pork, but I tried it with lean ground beef. I also didn't have any fennel, but have since gotten some, so am looking forward to tryng it again. We eat a lot of pizza and this is completely addicting!!

[MommyMakes]

This is excellent, very flavorful! I did not have any ground turkey so I used only lean ground pork and I had no fennel seeds either. For the wine I used a peppery Shiraz and the flavor is excellent! Thank you!