Breakfast Pizza
Breakfast Pizza that is loaded with breakfast sausage, white gravy, and mozzarella cheese! This Breakfast Pizza makes a great breakfast or brunch for the weekend. Freezer friendly and completely homemade.
Ingredients
Pizza Dough
- ½ Cup warm water
- ¾ Teaspoon dry active yeast
- ¼ Cup warm milk
- 4 ½ teaspoon olive oil
- 1 ½ teaspoon honey
- 1 Teaspoon salt
- 2 cup bread flour approximately
- 12 oz breakfast sausage such as Jimmy Dean's
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 Cup milk
- To Taste salt
- To Taste pepper
- 2 ½ cup mozzarella shredded
I always use Kosher salt in my kitchen! If using table salt, start with half the amount and adjust to taste, as it is much "saltier" by volume.
Instructions
- In your mixer, mix together the warm water, yeast and warm milk and allow to sit for a few minutes so that the yeast has time to bloom.
- Mix in the honey, salt, olive oil and half of the flour. Using the dough hook on its lowest speed, start to knead the dough. Continue kneading the dough and start adding ½ cup of flour at a time, only using enough flour for the dough to come together. You may or may not need all of the flour. Or you may need more flour.
- Once you have added as much flour as it needs, turn the speed up to the next setting and knead the dough for approximately 10 minutes. The dough should be elastic, soft and tacky, not sticky. Remove the dough hook, lightly coat the dough with oil, cover the bowl with a towel and set aside to proof until it doubles in size, 1 ½ to 2 hours.
- In a large skillet, over medium heat brown the sausage. Crumble it as it cooks. When it is cooked through remove from the pan, place on a paper towel to drain off the grease. Set aside.
- In the same skillet you cooked the sausage in, over medium heat, add in the butter. Once melted whisk in the flour to make the roux. Cook for 1 minute then slowly whisk in the milk until smooth and thickened into a gravy. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Set aside. Do not add hot gravy to pizza dough. Let it cool before using it.
- Preheat the oven to 450° F. Lightly oil a work surface and roll the dough out into an 11"x16" rectangle. Place on lightly oiled or parchment lined baking sheet. Stretch back out to the original size.
- Spread the gravy all over the pizza dough, sprinkle over 1 ½ cups of the shredded mozzarella. Top with sausage and remaining 1 cup of shredded mozzarella.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until the cheese is lightly browned. Cool slightly before slicing. Enjoy!
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