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Homemade Pesto Pizza with sausage and mushrooms – this is an easy pizza recipe method. It’s cheesy and SO delicious – if you love pesto you’re going to love it on pizza.
BEST Pesto Pizza Recipe with Sausage
Don’t you just love pesto pizza? How the juicy Italian sausage sits over the melted mozzarella cheese and the kitchen is filled with the aroma of basil. Best part? This pesto sausage pizza recipe has delicious variations and can easily be customized to your liking.
Enjoy homemade pizza week after week by switching up from the traditional tomato sauce to pesto. This simple recipe is one of my many favorite pizza recipes and will surely be yours too!
Ingredients Needed
Feel free to customize the pizza toppings, you can use more or less of what I used depending on your taste.
- Italian sausage: You can use links and remove the casing, or buy bulk sausage.
- Mushrooms: stems removed, diced
- Recipe pizza dough: or store bought pizza dough
- Pesto: my homemade pesto recipe or buy from the store
- Mozzarella cheese: freshly shredded. You can also use a mix of both mozzarella and gorgonzola cheese for extra flavor.
How to make this Pesto Pizza Recipe
- Prepare: Preheat the oven to 450°F. Place a cookie sheet, pizza pan, or pizza stone in the oven to preheat.
- Cook: Remove sausage meat from their casings. Add olive oil to the pan and cook over medium-high heat until brown and cooked through. Drain fat and let cool.
- Make: Roll out pizza dough to desired shape on parchment paper. (Dust with flour if needed.) Spread with pesto and sprinkle it with cheese, sausage, and mushrooms.
- Bake: Transfer pesto pizza to the oven and bake for 8-12 minutes. Cool slightly before slicing and eating.
Expert Tips
- To fully control your pizza ingredients, try this ultimate pizza dough recipe. It’s easy and you can make one thicker crust pizza or two thin crust, depending on what you’re craving! Win-win!
- For an alternative and more “foodie” flavor combo try a combination of cheeses (mozzarella and gorgonzola).
- To make this vegetarian, skip the Italian sausage and add other pizza toppings like red pepper flakes and fresh basil leaves.
FAQs
Anything! I love Italian sausage and mushrooms on this recipe.
You can! It’s a quicker way to make this recipe and equally just as good.
I pop it in the oven for about 5 minutes for ultra freshness but you can heat up your pesto pizza in the microwave!
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Mushroom Sausage Pesto Pizza Recipe
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Ingredients
- 2-3 Italian Sausage links
- 4 white or cremini mushrooms stems removed, diced
- 1 recipe pizza dough or store bought
- ½ cup pesto or more, to taste
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450°F. Place a cookie sheet, pizza pan, or pizza stone in the oven to preheat.
- Remove sausage meat from their casings. Cook over medium-high heat until brown and cooked through. Drain fat and let cool.
- Roll out pizza dough to desired shape on parchment paper. (Dust with flour if needed.) Spread with pesto (use up to the full jar depending on how much you want; I used about 3/4 of the jar). Sprinkle with cheese, sausage, and mushrooms.
- Transfer pizza to oven and bake for 8-12 minutes. Cool slightly before slicing and eating.
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We LOVE this recipe – it’s the perfect twist on a regular pizza recipe. Make homemade dough and top it with your favorite toppings!
I too, love pesto! I like to drizzle it over my regular pizza, in addition to many other ways to use it. But, I am too lazy to make it & after discovering the Costco brand, I never will!!! Need to make this sausage & pesto guy SOON 🙂
I’ve never tried flatbread – but I’m going to this weekend! And your homemade pesto.
Yummy. I can’t wait to try this.
oh wow that looks and sounds like heaven!
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