Shortcut Spicy Pizza!

The shortcut is that I used Wegman’s dough, and Rao’s pizza sauce. I also used dried oregano, dried basil and shredded mozzarella. Normal I would use fresh herbs and fresh mozzarella. The spicy is from habanero pepper, hot italian sausage and crushed red pepper flakes.

While pre-heating the oven to 500° (it was a rainy day, so no fun times with my new griddle tonight) I rolled out the dough (resting for a couple hours) onto my pizza stone, dusted with corn meal. I also pre-cooked the sausage and put it into a strainer to remove some grease.

Then I brushed the edges with a melted butter/garlic powder mix. Onto this went half the small jar of Rao’s pizza sauce.

Chopped onions, red bell pepper, sliced black olives and habanero pepper went on top. On this was placed a healthy handful of pepperonis and the sausage. This was then seasoned with dried oregano, basil and red pepper flakes.

An 8oz bag of shredded mozzarella was put on top. This was slid into the oven for 15 minutes. I did crisp up the bottom in the air fryer for my two dinner slices, but I saw this coming. My goal is that 3/4 of the pizza would be leftovers, so under-cooking the pizza was actually part of the plan. Air fried leftover pizza is the best!

What a great bite! Very tasty and VERY spicy.