Recipe: Tasty Italian Sausage and Bell Pepper Pizza

Italian Sausage and Bell Pepper Pizza. This Italian Sausage and Peppers Pizza has skyrocketed to a new family favorite! A tasty homemade pizza crust made with Fleischmann's Pizza Yeast, topped with a secret sauce, crumbled Italian sausage, peppers, onion and cheese. I love to make Italian sausage and peppers.

I think every Italian family makes this dish, with slight variations of course, within their own family traditions. While this is a fairly standard way of making sausage and peppers, my family uses olive oil rather than butter, uses little or no herbs (fresh basil is always nice here), red wine rather than white, and some crushed or diced canned tomatoes, or marinara sauce. Prepare pizza dough according to package directions. You can have Italian Sausage and Bell Pepper Pizza using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Italian Sausage and Bell Pepper Pizza

1. Prepare 2-1/2 c of almond meal/flour.
2. Prepare 2 c of mozzarella cheese, shredded.
3. It's 1/4 c of ground golden flaxseeds.
4. It's 1 tsp of onion powder.
5. Prepare 1/2 tsp of sea salt.
6. You need 2 of eggs.
7. You need 1/2 c of EVOO.
8. It's 1/2 c of water.
9. Prepare 8 oz of Italian sausage, loose or removed from casing.
10. You need 1 of yellow onion, chopped.
11. It's 2 cloves of garlic, minced.
12. Prepare 1 of small red bell pepper, seeded and sliced.
13. It's 1 of small green or yellow bell pepper, seeded and chopped.
14. You need 1 c of pizza sauce (3 net carbs per serving).
15. You need 1/4 tsp of crushed red pepper flakes.
16. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
17. You need 1/8 tsp of black pepper.

Italian Sausage and Green Bell Pepper Deep Dish Pizza.. After the Italian sausage has cooked the bell peppers will be added to the sausage and cooked covered on a lower heat just to slightly soften them. This gives the bell peppers a texture that compliments the rest of the pie once cooked, the added bonus it allows the peppers to take on. Top with remaining Parmesan and mozzarella cheeses.

Italian Sausage and Bell Pepper Pizza step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°F..
2. In large bowl, combine almond meal/flour, 1 c cheese, flaxseeds, onion powder and sea salt..
3. In small bowl, whisk eggs. Add 1/4 c oil and water. Pour into flour mixture and combine well..
4. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Place dough on paper and flatten to form crust. Bake 20 min..
5. In large skillet, heat 1 T oil. Cook sausage until no longer pink. Add onion, garlic and peppers until softened. Remove from heat..
6. Remove crust from oven and spread sauce. Top with sausage mixture, 1 c cheese, 3 T oil, pepper flakes, salt and pepper. Bake 10 min or until cheese melts..

Top with sausage, pepperoni and bell pepper. Sprinkle with a pinch of marjoram. To bake, quickly slip the pizza, still on the parchment, onto the baking stone. Remove from the pan and pour out any remaining grease. Season with salt, pepper and the rosemary.