Sage Sausage Gravy Breakfast Pizza
I have been experimenting, unsuccessfully, with a 'white' pizza for some time. While wondering how to use my leftover sausage gravy recently, I though it would make a very tasty base for such a pizza.
After a bit of net surfing, I ran across a recipe for a 'breakfast pizza', but you can eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you want to serve it to company, for brunch, you can bake your pizza in a 9 by 13 inch baking pan, using those ready made biscuit in a tube, and then cut it into bars.
Because the scrambled eggs would turn into cement if you baked the pizza along with the toppings, you have to prebake your pizza crust and then add your toppings, selecting for colour and flavour. Since I was cooking for one, and didn't want to have most of an onion hanging around the fridge until I got around to using it up (I'm not doing much cooking these days), I decided to add green onions to the eggs, but you can certainly add sliced or diced sweet red or yellow onion and saute it until it's tender, along with red, green or yellow sliced or diced peppers and mushrooms.
Amounts for the toppings are estimates based on what you have available and how loaded you want your breakfast pizza to be. If you're like me, you'll have to eat your breakfast pizza with a knife and fork or your sausage gravy will slide off the pizza dough...taking the rest of the toppings with it.
Sausage and Gravy Breakfast Pizza - serves 4 generously
1/3 batch of pizza dough (recipe)
~ 1 cup sausage gravy ie sage sausage gravy
4 scrambled eggs (ingredients and recipe below)
1/2-3/4 cup shredded old cheddar cheese
Preheat the oven to 350 deg Fahrenheit.
On a baking sheet, or a 9-inch cast iron frying pan, lightly brushed with olive oil, lay out the pizza dough. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove from the oven and assemble the toppings.
Spoon the sausage gravy over the prebaked pizza dough. Spoon the scrambled eggs over the sausage gravy.
Then sprinkle the cheddar cheese over the pizza.
Bake for 10-13 minutes until the crust is lightly browned at the edges and cheese is completely melted.
NOTE: If you don't want to make your own pizza dough, use a prebaked pizza shell, naan or thick Greek pita bread instead.
Scrambled Egg Ingredients
1 tbsp butter
~ 1/4 cup white, red or green onions (2-3 is plenty)
~ 1/4 cup sweet green, red or yellow peppers, diced
~ 1/4 white mushrooms, sliced
~ 1/4 cup ham, diced
4 eggs, slightly beaten with a tbsp of milk
salt and pepper, to taste
In a saute pan, melt the butter over medium heat and add the peppers, sliced mushrooms and onions. (If using green onions, there's no need to saute them ahead of time. Just add them along with the beaten eggs.) Saute for 5 minutes until the onions are golden and translucent and the mushrooms are slightly browned.
Add the beaten eggs, salt and pepper, and cook until the eggs are scrambled to desired consistency.
Reserve the eggs and spoon over the sausage gravy.
If you're on a budget and want to feed unexpected friends, making pizzas is an economical way of filling people up and you can design the toppings to suit any taste. From one batch of pizza dough, I made 3 separate pizzas: the sausage gravy breakfast pizza above and the two more traditional tomato based pizzas under the cut below. If I'd had some mushrooms, I would have replaced the green peppers on one of the tomato sauce pizzas making them all different.
Dough ready for the toppings - 9 inch cast iron frying pan, 12 inch round and rectangular pizza pans
Ham, green peppers and cheddar cheese
Hot pepperoni sausage, green peppers and mozzarella cheese
After a bit of net surfing, I ran across a recipe for a 'breakfast pizza', but you can eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you want to serve it to company, for brunch, you can bake your pizza in a 9 by 13 inch baking pan, using those ready made biscuit in a tube, and then cut it into bars.
Because the scrambled eggs would turn into cement if you baked the pizza along with the toppings, you have to prebake your pizza crust and then add your toppings, selecting for colour and flavour. Since I was cooking for one, and didn't want to have most of an onion hanging around the fridge until I got around to using it up (I'm not doing much cooking these days), I decided to add green onions to the eggs, but you can certainly add sliced or diced sweet red or yellow onion and saute it until it's tender, along with red, green or yellow sliced or diced peppers and mushrooms.
Amounts for the toppings are estimates based on what you have available and how loaded you want your breakfast pizza to be. If you're like me, you'll have to eat your breakfast pizza with a knife and fork or your sausage gravy will slide off the pizza dough...taking the rest of the toppings with it.
Sausage and Gravy Breakfast Pizza - serves 4 generously
1/3 batch of pizza dough (recipe)
~ 1 cup sausage gravy ie sage sausage gravy
4 scrambled eggs (ingredients and recipe below)
1/2-3/4 cup shredded old cheddar cheese
Preheat the oven to 350 deg Fahrenheit.
On a baking sheet, or a 9-inch cast iron frying pan, lightly brushed with olive oil, lay out the pizza dough. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove from the oven and assemble the toppings.
Spoon the sausage gravy over the prebaked pizza dough. Spoon the scrambled eggs over the sausage gravy.
Then sprinkle the cheddar cheese over the pizza.
Bake for 10-13 minutes until the crust is lightly browned at the edges and cheese is completely melted.
NOTE: If you don't want to make your own pizza dough, use a prebaked pizza shell, naan or thick Greek pita bread instead.
Scrambled Egg Ingredients
1 tbsp butter
~ 1/4 cup white, red or green onions (2-3 is plenty)
~ 1/4 cup sweet green, red or yellow peppers, diced
~ 1/4 white mushrooms, sliced
~ 1/4 cup ham, diced
4 eggs, slightly beaten with a tbsp of milk
salt and pepper, to taste
In a saute pan, melt the butter over medium heat and add the peppers, sliced mushrooms and onions. (If using green onions, there's no need to saute them ahead of time. Just add them along with the beaten eggs.) Saute for 5 minutes until the onions are golden and translucent and the mushrooms are slightly browned.
Add the beaten eggs, salt and pepper, and cook until the eggs are scrambled to desired consistency.
Reserve the eggs and spoon over the sausage gravy.
If you're on a budget and want to feed unexpected friends, making pizzas is an economical way of filling people up and you can design the toppings to suit any taste. From one batch of pizza dough, I made 3 separate pizzas: the sausage gravy breakfast pizza above and the two more traditional tomato based pizzas under the cut below. If I'd had some mushrooms, I would have replaced the green peppers on one of the tomato sauce pizzas making them all different.
Dough ready for the toppings - 9 inch cast iron frying pan, 12 inch round and rectangular pizza pans
Ham, green peppers and cheddar cheese
Hot pepperoni sausage, green peppers and mozzarella cheese