Fully loaded spicy sausage and pepper pizza

Fully-loaded spicy sausage and pepper pizza – so much better than takeaway and the perfect midweek meal!

📝 Ingredients

• Makes 1 pizza - double if making 2
• 200 g | 7oz thick salsa (I used El Paso)
• 3 pork sausages
• 100 g | 3 1/2 oz spicy chorizo sausage
• 1 small red bell pepper (slced into thin rings)
• 1 small green bell pepper (slced into thin rings)
• 1 red onion (peeled and slced into thin rings)
• 2-3 large handfuls grated mozzarella
• 8 mozzarella pearls (roughly torn)
• sweet paprika to sprinkle
• olive oil to drizzle
• handful rocket (arugula to serve)
• For the pizza dough
• makes enough for 2 large pizzas
• 500 g | 1lb 2oz white bread flour (plus more to dust)
• 360 ml | 12fl oz tepid water
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp dried yeast (suitable for bread makers)
• 1 tsp salt
• cornmeal or fine semolina to dust

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Make the pizza dough in a bread maker, checking your machine can handle the quantity of flour first. Add the water, oil, sugar, flour, salt and finally the yeast. Use the dough or pizza setting. The machine will mix and prove the dough. See notes for how to make by hand.
2. 2Preheat the oven to highest temperature and heat the pizza steel or stone if using for 45 minutes.
3. 3Remove the casing from the sausages and dry fry in a non-stick fryling pan until nicely browned, breaking them up with the back of a wooden spoon. Set aside.
4. 4Remove the casing from the chorizo and slice into disks. Dry fry for a couple of minutes and set aside.
5. 5In the same pan, fry the onion and pepper for 5 minutes until slightly softened.
6. 6Spread greaseproof baking paper over your worktop and sprinkle with semolina. Cut your dough in half and keep any you are not using in a an oiled bowl. Roll the dough out to a circle slightly smaller than the peel.
7. 7Spread the salsa over the base and sprinkle with the grated mozzarella.
8. 8Spread the onion, peppers and mozzarella pears over the top. Top with the sausage and chorizo and sprinkle with a little paprika. Add a drizzle of oiive oil. Transfer onto the combi peel.
9. 9Transfer from the peel onto the pizza steel and cook for 8-10 minutes.
10. 10Served topped with a little rocket.