Pear Goat Cheese and Italian Sausage Pizza with Roasted Garlic and Fresh Basil
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Category
Main Dish
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Cusine
American
What do you need?
How to make?
Ingredients
1 pizza dough, homemade or store bought
1 head garlic
2 Tbsp olive oil
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
2 pinches salt
1 1/2 barlett pears
6 oz low-moisture mozzarella cheese
3 oz goat cheese
5 oz Italian sausage
Yellow corn meal
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Remove loose papery outer layers from garlic , and cut about 1/4-inch from top to expose garlic cloves. Set garlic over a piece of aluminum foil , drizzle 1 1/2 tsp olive oil evenly over top of garlic, then wrap with foil to enclose. Bake in preheated oven until nearly roasted through , about 28 - 30 minutes. Remove from oven and set aside to cool, then remove cloves from skins. Increase oven temperature to 450 degrees and place an pizza stone in center of oven. On a large sheet of parchment paper lightly dusted with corn meal , shape and stretch pizza dough to 12 1/2 inches. Brush top of dough evenly with 1 1/2 Tbsp olive oil then sprinkle top evenly with pepper and salt. Layer pears, mozzarella, goat cheese, cooked italian sausage and garlic cloves over pizza. Using a pizza peel, transfer pizza on parchment to hot pizza stone in oven and bake 11 - 14 minutes until crust is golden and cheese is melted. Remove from oven and sprinkle with basil ribbons. Slice and serve warm. *I recommend using the kind that comes shaped like a cylinder . Part skim or whole. **I slightly undercooked the sausage as it will continue to cook in the oven. Just make sure it's fully cooked through after baking.