Ooni Sausage Pizza
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This fennel and sausage pizza is made with my Ooni pizza dough and pizza sauce, topped with cooked fennel and sausage, and cooked in the Ooni pizza oven. It's the favorite Ooni pizza recipe in my house, and I hope it becomes one of your favorite pizza recipes too.
Servings: 4
Calories: 380kcal
Equipment
- Ooni pizza oven or pizza stone
Ingredients
Sausage mixture
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ½ medium sized fennel bulb chopped
- 1 pound mild Italian sausage bulk sausage or removed from casings
Ooni sausage pizza
- 1 pizza dough ball I use 250 to 300 gram balls for a 14 inch pizza.
- ¼ to ½ cup pizza sauce
- ⅓ cup low moisture mozzarella shredded
Instructions
Sausage mixture
- Fry your chopped fennel in a frying pan with the olive oil over medium-low heat until soft and just starting to lightly brown, about seven to ten minutes.1 tablespoon olive oil, ½ medium sized fennel bulb
- Add the bulk Italian sausage to the pan and cook it, breaking it up into smaller pieces, until browned. Once cooked, taste and add some salt and pepper if it really needs it.1 pound mild Italian sausage
- Drain any fat and let the mixture cool until you're ready to top your pizzas.
Ooni sausage pizza
- Prepare your pizza just before baking it in the Ooni. Dust your peel or countertop with semolina (depending on how you like to transfer pizzas to the Ooni), then use your fingers and palms to stretch your dough. If you are using a same day pizza dough that is very elastic, you may need to let it rest 15 minutes or so if it keeps springing back.1 pizza dough ball
- Lightly top your pizza with pizza sauce, the shredded mozzarella, and your fennel sausage mixture.¼ to ½ cup pizza sauce, ⅓ cup low moisture mozzarella
- Cook in the Ooni pizza oven for a few minutes, turning every few seconds. We prefer to cook on low heat until the cheese has melted, turn off the oven and keep turning to cook the pizza dough through.
- Serve immediately with hot pepper flakes and Parmesan at the table. A drizzle of hot honey can be delicious as well!
Notes
With one pound of ground sausage, this recipe will make enough fennel and sausage mixture for three or four 12 to 14 inch Ooni pizzas, which should be lightly loaded.
Feel free to substitute chopped yellow onion for the chopped fennel if you don't like the licorice taste of fresh fennel. Or use a combination of the two.
The sausage topping shouldn't need any additional seasonings, depending on where you get your sausage, but please taste it after cooking and add salt and pepper if needed.
Here are my favorite Ooni pizza dough and Ooni pizza sauce recipes. That pizza dough post has tons of tips and tricks for preparing pizza dough for the Ooni.
Of course, you're most likely going to be making different types of pizza recipes, so feel free to freeze leftover cooled sausage mixture in an air-tight container for three to six months. Alternatively, it is delicious in this cavatappi alfredo recipe.
Nutrition
Calories: 380kcal | Carbohydrates: 49g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 1056mg | Potassium: 158mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 133IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 76mg | Iron: 3mg