Sausage and Pickled Pepper Pizza
Serves 2 to 4
If the first two pizza recipes are a welcome taste of the familiar,
this is a pizza that takes you by surprise. It’s really a beautiful
study in contrasts: the meaty, fatty sausage against the zingy,
spicy pickled peppers. You could probably buy commercially
packaged pickled peppers (something like pickled jalapeños), but
making your own pickled peppers is so easy and so worth it. Even
though you may be tempted to, don’t overload the pizza. Less is
more, even when it comes to pizza.A splash of olive oil, plus more for drizzling
3 or 4 links of pork sausage, out of the casing
Homemade Pizza Dough
1 cup Pizza Sauce
½ cup aged mozzarella (look for Polly-O or Grande brand),
cut into ½-inch cubes and pulsed in the food processor
1 ball fresh mozzarella (Grande or Lioni brand)
A scattering of pickled peppers*Heat the olive oil in a sauté pan and shape the sausage meat into a
patty*. Cook the sausage on both sides until slightly browned on
the outside and still pink in the middle. Remove the sausage to a