This cheese sausage pizza with cherry peppers is perfect for an easy quick dinner. We love making pizza on Friday nights while watching a fun movie. Usually by the time Friday rolls around, we are ready to make something quick but still have a lot of flavor. To make this really really easy, buy the individual crust like a Boboli crust, stone fried artisan crust, or other pre-made crust that is available at the local grocery store
It's so much fun to make homemade pizza. Other homemade pizzas we love are Chicken Cordon Bleu Pizza, Mushroom 4 cheese Pizza, Shrimp Scampi Pizza, Pesto Pizza, BBQ Pizza, and More
Cheese sausage pizza with cherry peppers
The steps to make this cheese sausage pizza with cherry peppers are so easy.
First, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Then start to cook the sausage in a saute pan. We use spicy Italian sausage links. Remove the sausage from the casing or cut the sausage into chunks. Cook it completely, it takes about 4 to 5 minutes.
While the sausage is cooking get the sauce ready. No need to make homemade pizza sauce. We like to buy a jar of pizza sauce and then add additional spices to the sauce. This is a fun tip to give the pizza more of that great flavor and an easy way to elevate the pizza sauce. All you need to add is some additional garlic powder and oregano to the pizza sauce. And if you want a really spicy pizza, mix in some Habanero pepper to the sauce
For the cheese, we added fresh mozzarella, gorgonzola, and grated parmesan cheese. Prepare the cheese by slicing the mozzarella, crumble the gorgonzola, and grate the parmesan. To make this even easier, buy the already-sliced mozzarella cheese..
Now build the pizza. Spray the bottom of the crust and sprinkle on some parmesan cheese. For another fun flavor boost sprinkle some chunky salt to the bottom of the pizza crust with the parmesan cheese. Place the pizza crust on a cookie sheet. We like to line our cookie sheets with foil. This cuts the time for the clean up!!
Spread the pizza sauce on the dough. Sprinkle on the sausage, Gorgonzola cheese, mozzarella cheese slices, and cherry peppers (we used fresh for this one but pickled cherry peppers work also).
Bake for 15 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the crust is golden brown on the bottom. Slice and ENJOY!!!!
Some of our favorite homemade pizzas are: Artichoke Dip Pizza, Chicken Cordon Bleu, Mushroom four cheese, Shrimp scampi, Spicy Pesto chicken, Tomato and Pesto, Ricotta Sauce, and Grilled chicken Caesar salad. Just Search for Pizza to get a complete list of all our homemade pizzas.
Cheese Sausage Pizza with Cherry Peppers
Ingredients
- 2 Individual Pizza Crust
- 8 Ounces Italian Sausage - Spicy
- 1 Cup Pizza Sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon Oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 1 1/2 Ounces Gorgonzola Cheese Crumbled
- 3 Ounces Mozzarella Cheese
- 1/2 Ounces Parmesan Cheese
- 1 Habanero Optional
Instructions
- Preheat the Oven to 400 degrees. Cook the Italian Sausage in a sauté pan.8 Ounces Italian Sausage - Spicy
- Slice or shred the mozzarella cheese.3 Ounces Mozzarella Cheese
- To prepare the pre-cooked pizza crust, first spray the bottom with cooking spray. Then, sprinkle some parmesan cheese onto each crust. Finally, place the crusts on a baking sheet with the cheese side down.1/2 Ounces Parmesan Cheese, 2 Individual Pizza Crust
- Add oregano, garlic powder, and chopped habanero to the pizza sauce and stir to combine1 Cup Pizza Sauce, 1/2 teaspoon Oregano, 1/2 teaspoon Garlic Powder, 1 Habanero
- Spread the pizza sauce on each crust
- Place cooked Italian sausage on the pizzas.
- Add mozzarella cheese to the pizzas.
- Add the crumbled gorgonzola cheese to the pizzas.1 1/2 Ounces Gorgonzola Cheese
- Place the sliced cherry peppers on top.
- Place pizzas in the oven. Bake for 15 minutes or until the cheese is melted.
- Enjoy!!!!!