Sausage Pizza with Arugula and Grapes

(from castro15’s recipe box)

Categories: Pizza/Flatbread

Ingredients

  • 4 tsp olive oil
  • 1 lb. refrigerated pizza dough, at room temp
  • 1/2 cup ricotta cheese
  • Kosher salt and black pepper
  • 2 tsp chopped fresh thyme
  • 2 oz. Cambozola cheese, rind removed, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
  • 2/3 cup red seedless grapes, halved
  • 2 links hot Italian sausage, casings removed, broken into marble-size pieces
  • 1/2 small shallot, thinly sliced and separated into rings
  • 1 tbsp. honey
  • 1 cup baby arugula

Directions

  1. Put a pizza stone or an inverted baking sheet on the lowest rack of the oven and preheat to 450. Place a piece of parchment on another inverted baking sheet and brush with 2 tsp olive oil. Stretch and lightly pan the pizza dough into a 10×14-inch rectangle on the parchment. Prick the dough with a fork everywhere but the edges. Brush with the remaining 2 tsp olive oil. Slide the dough (on the parchment) onto the hot stone or baking sheet and bake until lightly browned on the bottom, about 8 minutes.

  2. Season the ricotta with 1/4 tsp salt and black pepper. Remove the crust from the oven and spread the ricotta on top. Sprinkle with the thyme and top with the Cambozola, grapes and sausage. Slide back onto the hot stone or baking sheet and continue baking until the sausage is cooked through and the crust is golden, about 10 minutes.

  3. Remove from the oven and immediately scatter the shallot rings on top. Drizzle with the honey and top with the arugula.

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