This is a delicious pizza. It’s got homemade Italian pork sausage, pepperoni, green peppers and bacon.
Basically a pork lovers pizza with freshly chopped green peppers. I put mozzarella cheese on the pizza sauce. Chopped up some fresh green pepper, then the pepperoni and sausage followed by Colby jack cheese and bacon bits. Bake for 18 minutes at 450 degrees (F). I am also including the recipe for the crust below.
1 cup hot water (105-110 degrees F)
1 TBSP active yeast (not rapid rise)
1 TBSP granulated white sugar
3 -3 1/2 cups all purpose flour ( do not use self rising)
1 TBSP olive oil ( you can use vegetable oil if you want)
1 tsp salt
In a large mixing bowl add yeast and sugar then add water. Allow yeast to activate, it will look foamy, about 5 to 10 mins. Add oil salt and flour, mix with a spoon until a lightly firm dough all forms. Use hands to knead the ball until not sticky, add flour if needed. You can use right away or if you want you can let it rise 10 to 20 minutes. Put flour on you counter top and press out by hand until almost the size of your pan. Transfer to baking pan stretching to the correct size. Add sauce and toppings.
This will make 2 thin crust pizzas or 1 hand tossed/thin pan crust pizza.
Let sit 5 minutes after coming out of oven, cut and enjoy.
What about the sauce?
I honestly used Classico pizza sauce this time. I was just too lazy to make my own thanks to the killer heat we’ve had here in Texas the past few weeks. Just cooking the pizza raises the temp in my apt by about 6 degrees, and I’m lucky if my a/c is able to keep the temps cool enough for comfort at this time.
Generally for a tomato based sauce I will use tomato paste, tomato sauce, a tbsp of sugar and Italian spices to taste, heat over medium low heat for about 10 to 20 mins. Let cool completely before using.