Italian Sausage Deep Dish Pizza
photo by Johnsonville Sausage
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 1 (19 ounce) package Johnsonville Mild or Hot Italian Sausage Links, casings removed
- 1 small green bell pepper, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 cup sliced mushrooms
- 1 (2 1/4 ounce) can sliced black olives, drained
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 4 teaspoons yellow cornmeal
- 2 tubes refrigerated country italian bread dough (13.2 ounces)
- 6 slices provolone cheese
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1⁄2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
- 1 (15 ounce) can pizza sauce
directions
- Cook sausage links according to package directions; drain, cut into ¼-inch slices and set aside.
- In a skillet, sauté green pepper slices in 1 tablespoon of olive oil over medium-high heat until lightly browned.
- Remove peppers and set aside.
- In the same skillet, add remaining olive oil; sauté mushrooms over medium-high heat until lightly browned.
- Position oven rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat to 400ºF.
- Butter the bottom and sides of two 9-inch round baking pans.
- Sprinkle 2 teaspoons of cornmeal in the interior of each pan.
- Remove bread dough from tubes, unroll and press one tube of dough up sides and over the bottom of each prepared pan.
- Arrange 3 slices of provolone over dough, followed by 1 ½ cups of mozzarella and ¼ cup of Parmesan into each pan.
- Spread ¾ cup of pizza sauce over cheese layer.
- Top each pizza with half of the green peppers, mushrooms, olives and sausage slices.
- Bake at 400ºF for 30-35 minutes or until crusts are golden brown.
- Remove from oven and let rest for 5 minutes.
- Cut into wedges.
- Serve.
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