Fennel, Apple Sausage, & Onion Pizza

Ingredients:

  •  24 oz pizza dough, room temp
  • 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
  • 6 oz fresh mozzarella, shredded
  • 1/2 large onion, sliced thin
  • 1 fennel bulb, shaved or thinly sliced
  • 4 apple sausages, chopped
  • Garlic cream sauce
  • Seasonal herbs, I used: basil, ground fennel, and oregano.
  • Salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
  • Sheet of baking paper

Preparation:

Place pizza dough in a bowl cover with olive oil and aluminum foil. Leave outside for two hours or until it doubles its size.

Shave fennel. Ok, so I’m using a cooking gadget called mandolin, which looks more like a guillotine, a torture device  from the 18th century. It’s a bit dangerous if you dont use the guard, but it is amazingly useful in slicing vegetables paper-thin or for making evenly cut fries. If you don’t have one, shaving the fennel with a plain old peeler will do the trick! Have a bowl with iced water to put the fennel shavings on it ,otherwise they will turn brown. Quickly saute fennel and set aside in a bowl.

Saute the sausage just a bit, not too much because they are going to finish cooking in the oven.

Lay pan with baking paper. Then, stretch the pizza dough in table until the dough has the desired thickness.

Spread the homemade cream  sauce on dough.

 Place the fennel, sausage and onion atop of the dough. Then, top with mozzarella, Parmesan and season with herbs, sea salt and fresh ground black pepper. I’m experimenting with another type of shape , like a pizzeta to see what tastes/looks better. ..

Pizettas

vs Pizza. 

Cook according to the 1,2,3 method from my potato pesto pizza blog post for baking a stellar crust and enjoy!

Ready for some obscenely mouthwatering pizza pics! Here we go….

Comments

  1. kingmidget says:

    Great recipe and great looking pizzas/pizzetas. So, which one was better?

    • Pizzetta for sure! It has a higher crispy crust ration than the normal pizza! thanks for stoping by :)

      • kingmidget says:

        In response to your other response to another comment … making pizza dough takes about ten minutes. Ditch the store bought stuff! :)

      • I thouhgt you had to let it proof for a while before using it. But I’ll give it a try for sure!

      • kingmidget says:

        I make the dough and let it rise while I’m getting the rest of the ingredients ready. Here’s my recipe: Combine 1/2 tsp active dry yeast, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, 1 3/4 cup warm water. Then add 2 cups bread flour. Then flour about 1/2 cup at a time until it’s not real wet and you can take it out of the bowl and knead it, adding more flour as you go. Pour one TBSP of olive oil in a bowl, put the dough in it and turn over to coat both sides, cover with a towel. This is enough for four medium sized pizzas or six small pizzas. While the dough rises, grate your cheese, slice your toppings. Get everything read. Cut the dough in to the number of pizzas you want, form into balls, dust with flour, cover with a towel. Let rest for 15 minutes or so, while preheating your oven as high as it goes. Make Pizza.

  2. That look phenomenal. Yum!

  3. Looks yummy. Do you make your own pizza dough or buy a prepared dough? I’m dying to get a mandolin.

  4. Thanx for the follow of Food Nazi

  5. Oh my goodness, this looks delicious. My mouth is watering!

  6. we just tried this recipe for pizza crust. it was delicious and you don’t have to wait for it to rise. http://bit.ly/LVmnNT
    Sidenote: I did have add more flour when I was rolling though because it was a little to moist.

  7. That is a gorgeous pizza! :) …and I’m completely jealous of your mandolin. What kind is it? No idea why I haven’t bought one yet. Now it’s on my list! :)

  8. You can’t go wrong with fennel… perfect for schnapps too…

  9. sounds fantastic going to give this a try.

  10. Hi Angela, thx for the “like” to my blog :) Wow, this pizza looks delic…was missing it while in Thailand…I actually just picked up 2 slices for dinner, haha.

    If I had seen your post earlier, I would’ve paid for your plane ticket to NYC/ NJ to cook it for me :P

  11. Devonbull 1 says:

    What can I say that others have not? It all looks great. What a wonderful site. I’ll have to check back when it’s time to have pizza here at the farm. Thanks for liking a post of mine at Pairodox – much appreciated. Keep up the good work. Boy … I’m hungry now!

  12. OMG (as the kids say) the pizza looks great. I just rolled out of bed but, somehow, I could eat pizza right now. Thanks for the great recipe, I’ll have to revisit the next time we’re thinking about pizza for dinner. Thanks also for checking in at PairodoxFarm … much appreciated. D

  13. I love making pizza for my family. I also like to repurpose an ordinary bread machine for making the crust dough. All you need to do is to throw in the ingredients for whichever dough you like, set it to the dough cycle and forget it (mine has a timer, so you can have it done by the time you need the dough.) The great thing is, I think every second hand store in the world has a new, or nearly new one for $5-$10. I got mine for free because my sis-in-law got it for a wedding present and never knew what to do with it.

    • Thank you for the tip! I actually have one that my mother in law gave me, but did not know that I could use it for making pizza dough ! Thank for stopping by & looking forward to your blog posts!

  14. Wow,,, i wanna order pizza all of the sudden LOL. Great tips :) oya, thanks for the ‘like’ , u may open jayidforus.wordpress.com, thats my design too. keep it inspired people madame :D

  15. Hey there, I made this. Even though it came out looking nothing like your pictures, it still tasted pretty awesome!

  16. Can you share your homemade pizza dough recipe? Thank you!

  17. IS A NICE ARTICLE… you have a good knowledge!!
    really beneficial for me

  18. Wow, very delicious!!

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