Italian Sausage Pizza

Cuisine: Italian

Cook Time: 30 Minutes

Serves: 3


This Italian-styled pizza holds up to the regular pizza topping out there. It is delicious with its sweet and spicy flavors and is seasoned with basil and mozzarella cheese. With your pizza arsenal, you can make it right at home without waiting for delivery, without any fuss.

  • 1 package Italian sausage links (2-3 servings)
  • 1 packaged pizza crust (12 inches, pre-baked)
  • 1 cup marinara sauce
  • 1 cup mozzarella cheese, grated
  • 2 tbsp red pepper flakes
  • Fresh basil, for garnish
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp chili oil

A fool-proof pizza for weekends

  1. Gather the ingredients.
  2. Preheat your oven till 400 F
  3. Cut the sausages into smaller pieces in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook for 3-5 minutes till brown.
  4. Spread pizza base with marinara sauce, chili oil, and the sausage mixture.
  5. Sprinkle the grated cheese and red pepper flakes over the pizza
  6. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Make sure to rotate the pizza halfway through cooking.
  7. Top with remaining mozzarella cheese and garnish with fresh basil
  8. Remove to a cutting board. Allow the pizza to cool down for a couple of minutes.
  9. Slice the sausage pizza into portions. Serve while the cheese is still sizzling.

Chef Tip: Add salami and ham along with BBQ sauce to turn this Italian pizza into a meat lover's delight.

This pizza bursting with big flavors is great to be enjoyed with friends and family over nostalgic memories! It is equally enjoyed by kids.

Quick Bites

Fun Fact

• In one form or the other, pizza was in existence from centuries.

• The pre-pizza is mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid.

Historical Fact

•Sausages on pizza are as old as the pizza itself.

• Sausages are mentioned in The Odyssey written by Homers more than 2700 years ago.

Nutrition Fact

• A typical slice of Italian sausage pizza can have around 325 calories of which 129 is from fat.

• Its nutrients can be roughly broken into 14g of fat, 36g of carbohydrates, 13g of protein, 27mg of cholesterol and 734mg of sodium.