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Makes

1 16-inch pizza

Ingredients

  • Flour
  • Cornmeal optional
  • Olive oil
  • 1 medium white or red onion sliced
  • 4 ounces fresh local mushrooms like maitake, chanterelle, black trumpet, or oyster, sliced
  • 1 round Rogals family pizza dough Page XX
  • 1 cup simple pizza sauce Page XX
  • 4 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese thinly sliced
  • 3 sweet Italian sausages sliced into rounds approximately 1/4 inch thick
  • Handful of fresh basil roughly chopped
  • Sea salt

Instructions

  • Place a pizza stone in the oven if you are using one. If you aren’t, line a baking sheet with parchment paper that is dusted with a bit of flour and cornmeal. Preheat the oven to 550°.
  • In a large pan, pour 2 tablespoons of oil into a large skillet, add onions, place over low heat, and cook until the onions just start to caramelize, 6–7 minutes.
  • In a small bowl, toss 1 tablespoon olive oil with mushrooms.
  • Sprinkle flour over a clean countertop and begin to prepare your pizza dough. Press down into the center of the ball of dough with your fingertips to form a circle. Keep pressing the dough outward until it is 16 inches in diameter, about 1/4 inch thick in the center, and 1 inch thick at the crust. If using a pizza peel and pizza stone, sprinkle the peel with a bit of flour and cornmeal and gently place the dough on top of it. If you’re using a sheet pan lined with parchment, place the dough in the pan.
  • With a spoon, spread pizza sauce evenly around the dough. Place mozzarella slices over the sauce so they are evenly spaced and not overlapping. Sprinkle onions, sausage rounds, and mushrooms over the cheese.
  • Slide the pizza into the oven (either directly onto the hot pizza stone if using a peel or onto the rack if using a baking pan) and bake until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is bubbling with light brown spots, about 12 minutes.
  • Drizzle pizza with olive oil (especially on the crust). Sprinkle with sea salt and chopped basil. Slice and serve warm.