Spicy Pizza Sausage

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.

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Serves: 5

Ingredients

• 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.