Homemade Delicious Pizzas

Pizza is always a popular and accessible dish for anyone, across all cuisines and cultures. Whatever the occasion, a hot cheesy pizza on the table is always welcoming. However, most could find the process of making a pizza daunting, especially if the pizza dough has to be made from scratch. And the choice of toppings is also equally important. To get the right combination of the toppings for the ideal mix of flavors and textures can be intimidating to some.

Here’s an easy solution to ward off any hesitations to making your pizza at home. We have 3 amazing homemade pizza recipes here that are super easy and quick to make and so delicious that you will not consider doing pizza deliveries anymore.

Ingredients

bread bowl (aka dinner bowl): 1

cup tomato sauce: 1/2

cup Mozzarella cheese – shredded: 1

cup pepperoni: 1/4

onion (sliced): 1/2

Handful of fresh basil/spinach

link cooked sausage (optional): 1

Ground black pepper to taste

pack ready-made pizza dough: 1

cup roasted red pepper - chopped: 1/2

cup Mozzarella cheese: 1

tsp crushed red pepper flakes: 1/2

tbsp dried oregano: 1

tbsp melted butter: 4

cloves garlic, minced: 2

tsp ground black pepper: 1

salt: 1 tsp

tbsp fresh parsley – chopped: 2

to 2 cups tomato sauce (for serving): 1

lb Italian sausage: 1

tsp olive oil: 1

medium onion: 1

cups bell pepper – chopped: 1 1/2

cloves garlic, minced: 3

cups tomato sauce / salsa: 4

sheets lasagna noodles: 6

cups Ricotta cheese: 2

cups shredded Mozzarella cheese: 2

cup pepperoni: 1

Handful of fresh basil - chopped

How To Make Homemade Delicious Pizzas

1. Preheat oven to 350^o F/ 180^o
2. Take a bread bowl and slice off the top. Keep the top aside as you’ll need it later on. Thenmost of the inner white part of the bread and press it down to the bottom of the bread bowl.
3. Fill the bowl with toppings below in order.

• Tomato sauce
• Onions
• Mozzarella cheese
• Pepperoni
• Basil/spinach
• Cooked Sausage (optional)
• Ground black pepper

4. Top it off with some more tomato sauce and Mozzarella cheese and close it with the top of the dinner bowl that you cut and set aside earlier.
5. Wrap the filled bowl with analuminum foil sheet and weigh it down with a heavy object such as a cast iron pan, for 15-20 to flatten it a bit.
6. Top the flatten bowl with more Mozzarella cheese and a few pepperonis if you like.
7. Place pizza bowl onto a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
8. Remove from oven and serve warm. As easy as that!

1. Preheat oven to 400^o F/ 200^o
2. Take a pack of ready-made pizzadough and cut it into a rectangle.
3. Arrange the pepperoni in a single row on the pizza dough from left to right along the length side of the pizza dough.
4. Arrange the mozzarella in another single row below the row of pepperoni, on the pizza dough. Continue this interlaying of the pepperoni and Mozzarella until the bottom of the dough.
5. Then sprinkle roasted red pepper, more shredded Mozzarella cheese, crushed red pepper, and dried oregano over the top. Feel free to change up on the seasonings to your preferences.
6. Roll up the dough into a cylinder like a cinnamon roll, from the length side and set aside.
7. Mix melted butter, garlic, pepper, salt, and parsley in a mixing bowl.
8. Brush the pizza roll with the butter mixture.
9. Bake in pre-heated oven at for 15-20 minutes.
10. Serve it hot with a bowl of tomato sauce.

1. Preheat oven to 375^o F/ 190^o
2. In a skillet, heat olive oil and cook Italian sausage until warmed through and set aside.
3. In the same skillet, sweat the onions for about 3 to 4 minutes. Then add bell pepper and garlic until everything is cooked through. Remove from heat and set aside.
4. In a casserole dish, start assembling the lasagna by layering the ingredients in the following order as one layer. Do this layering twice and you should get 2 complete layers.

• ½ portion of the tomato sauce/ salsa
• 3 sheets lasagna noodles
• ½ portion of the Ricotta cheese
• ½ portion of the cooked Italian sausage
• ½ portion of the cooked veggies
• 1/3 portion of the shredded mozzarella

5. Top off with pepperoni, basil and the rest of the Mozzarella cheese.
6. Bake lasagna in pre-heated oven for 45-55 minutes.
7. Serve warm!