Beer Brat Pizza with Calabrian Chilis

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Dinner, Main Course American/Italian
By Kelly Djalali Serves: 2-4
Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 25 Minutes

Leftover beer poached bratwurst with peppers, mushrooms and onions gets a new life on a pizza with Fontina cheese and crushed Calabrian chilis.

Ingredients

  • 1 Prepared Pizza Dough
  • 1 cup Grated Fontina Cheese
  • 2 Cooked Bratwurst Sausages, sliced into rounds
  • 1 Red, Orange or Yellow Bell Pepper, sliced into strips and sautéd until soft and slightly browned
  • 1/4 Yellow Onion, sliced into strips and sautéd until soft and slightly browned
  • 1 Portobello Mushroom, sliced and sautéd until soft and slightly browned
  • Crushed Calabrian Chilis, for finishing, to taste

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

2

On a floured pizza peel, dust the dough with flour and create a crust around the perimeter of the dough and flatten down the center.

3

Stretch it out on the backs of your hands, left hand over right hand, until the dough is roughly 12-inches around.

4

Add more flour evenly on the peel and lay the dough on the peel.

5

First add a layer of Fontina cheese.

6

Then Evenly top with cooked mushrooms, bell peppers and onion.

7

Add a little more cheese and top with sliced sausages.

8

Bake for 15 minutes, until the crust is golden and the cheese is melted and bubbly.

9

After baking, top the pie with dollops of crushed Calabrian chilis and their oil.