How to Make a Sausage & Pepper Pizza in a Wood Fired Brick Oven

mozzarella cheese

🥗Healthier: part-skim mozzarella

💰Cheaper: provolone cheese

Part-skim mozzarella reduces fat while maintaining texture.

Italian sausage

🥗Healthier: turkey sausage

💰Cheaper: pork sausage

Turkey sausage is lower in fat and calories.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated Romano cheese

Nutritional yeast provides a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

Roast multicolored bell peppers (red, yellow, orange) in the brick oven until charred.

Roast whole garlic cloves with extra virgin olive oil in the brick oven.

Roast a combination of sweet and spicy Italian sausage in the brick oven.

Break up fresh mozzarella cheese and scatter it on the pizza base for good coverage.

Dollop crushed tomato sauce on top of the mozzarella, ensuring pieces of cheese are visible.

Add roasted garlic on top of the sauce.

Spread the roasted bell peppers evenly over the pizza.

Scatter the roasted sweet and spicy Italian sausage on top of the peppers.

Add sliced cherry peppers for extra kick, if desired.

Finish with a sprinkle of grated Romano cheese before placing the pizza in the oven.

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

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