Veggie Sausage, Caramelized Red Onion and Fennel Pizza
Recipe adapted from Cooking Light's Chicken Sausage, Sweet Onion and Fennel Pizza.
Ingredients
- 12 ounces Lightlife Italian sausage chopped into 1/2-inch thick slices
- 3 teaspoons olive oil divided, plus a few tablespoons for pizza dough
- Whole-wheat pizza dough I used the pizza dough from the Whole Foods deli section
- 1 and 1/2 cups vertically sliced red onion about 1/2 a medium red onion
- 1 and 1/2 cups thinly sliced fennel bulb about 1 medium bulb
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 and 1/4 cups monterey jack cheese
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives
- Freshly-ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Pre-bake pizza dough on a warmed pizza stone coated with cooking spray for 15 minutes or until the dough starts to brown.
- Heat one teaspoon olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add sausage slices to the pan; sauté for 4-5 minutes or until browned, stirring occasionally. Remove from pan.
- Add two teaspoons oil to pan. Add onion, fennel, and salt and cook for five minutes on medium-high, stirring frequently until the onion and fennel begin to brown. Turn heat down to medium low and cook 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until tender and starting to caramelize.
- Brush the pre-baked pizza dough with 1-2 tablespoons olive oil. Top evenly with onion and fennel mixture, sprinkle with cheese, and top evenly with sausage.
- Bake at 450° for 12 minutes or until cheese melts. Sprinkle evenly with chives. Cut pizza into 8 wedges.