Day Six Recipe: Pizza with sausage,olives, green peppers and sauteed onions.

Hey everyone! Here it is, DAY SIX RECIPE:


PIZZA WITH SAUSAGE, OLIVES GREEN PEPPERS AND SAUTEED ONIONS


INGREDIENTS:
CRUST:
1 Cup Lukewarm water
2 & ¼ tsp Quick Rise Yeast
1 tsp Sugar
2 tbsp Canola Oil
1 tbsp Cornmeal
Cooking spray ( like PAM)
2 & 2/3 Cup Flour
2 & ½ Tbsp Butter or Margarine
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Oregano
1 tsp Garlic Powder


SAUCE:
1 14oz Can Tomato Sauce
1 tbsp Oregano
2 tsp Garlic Powder
2 tsp Onion Powder
1 tsp Salt
½ tsp Pepper


TOPPINGS:
4 Sausage Links, your favourite kind
1 Small Onion, thinly sliced
10 Black Olives, Pitted, and sliced
½ Green Bell Pepper (or your favourite color), diced
3 cups Mozzarella Cheese, grated


DIRECTIONS FOR CRUST PREPERATION:
In a small bowl, dissolve sugar in water. Add yeast. Cover and let rise about 10 minutes.
In the meantime Combine flour, salt, oregano, and garlic powder. Cut in butter or margarine until crumbly.
Add yeast mixture to flour mixture. Stir slightly with a fork. Knead together until dough gathers into a ball.
Pour oil over and roll the dough ball to evenly coat in the oil.
Cover with a tea towel and let rise in a warm place for about 45 minutes.
Spray Pizza pan, or sheet pan with cooking spray. Lightly dust with cornmeal.
Place dough ball in the middle of the pan. Press out with your fingers towards the sides. Make as thin or as thick as you like at this point. I prefer a bit thinner. Remember that it rises as it bakes, to about double the original size. Cut any excess off the sides. (Extra dough makes great breadsticks!). Prick with a fork all over, and bake just the dough for about 10 minutes at 400 degrees.


DIRECTIONS FOR SAUCE PREPERATION:
Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Stir.


DIRCTIONS OR TOPPING PREPERATION:
Remove sausage from casing. Place in a non stick fry pan and cook over a med high heat, making sure to break up any really large pieces.
After about 5 minutes of cooking the sausage, add the onions to the pan.
Continue cooking over a med high heat, until sausage is fully cooked and onions are slightly browned.


ASSEMBLY OF PIZZA:
Top partially baked crust with sauce (as much as you like).
Next step: toppings.
There is some debate here. Some like everything underneath the cheese. Around here we put the majority of the cheese on top of the sauce, then we put on the topping then a scant layer of cheese over the toppings. You can choose whichever is best suited to your family.
After the pizza is assembled, bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes or until all the cheese in the centre is melted. A nice finish to the pizza is to broil for about 5 minutes to brown it up nicely.