One of my favorite pizzas is made by Delucia’s in Raritan
NJ. They make a nice dough, have a
wood-burning oven, but what really sets their pizza apart is the fresh homemade
sausage. They season ground pork with
some spices and then put the raw pork on top of the pizza. Their oven cooks the sausage right on the
pizza. It’s way better than sliced
formed sausage because the ground pork has nooks and crannies in order to increase
browning.
I chose to add this sausage to a flatbread pizza. I brushed the flatbread with olive oil and
topped it with sausage, cooked spinach, red onions, and sea salt.
You can adapt this very basic sausage recipe however you
choose. You can:
- make it more spicy by adding hot pepper flakes
- omit the brown sugar for a savory sausage
- add any type of herbs (including fennel seeds)
Process:
Start by making your pizza dough. Get a big bowl and combine the lukewarm water
+ the yeast packet + the honey. Mix it
all together and let it sit for 5 mins.
Gradually add in your flour, mixing constantly. Once you can start kneading the dough, add
only enough flour so the dough doesn’t stick to your hand. Knead for 2 more mins until the dough is
silky. Drizzle a bit of olive oil on top
and cover the bowl with a kitchen towel.
Let the dough rise for an hour or so.
In another bowl, combine all of the ingredients for the sausage
and mix well.
Pre-heat your oven well in advance to the maximum broil
setting. I like to use an overturned
cast iron skillet on the middle rack of the oven instead of a pizza stone
(thanks Kenji!).
Roll out your pizza dough and add the toppings. I like
to brush the crust with olive oil. Open
the oven and carefully place the pizza on top of the cast iron skillet. Cook the pizza until the crust browns nicely
and the sausage has a few crisp edges.
Ingredients:
1 lb ground pork
2T brown sugar
1tsp harissa powder (or ½ tsp paprika, ½ tsp pepper flakes)
1tsp onion powder
1tsp garlic powder
1tsp sea salt
Pizza dough:
Approx 3 ½ cups pastry or type 00 flour
1 envelope instant yeast
1T honey
2 tsp salt
1 ½ cup lukewarm water
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