Dinner Oct 21, 2024
Note: This was made mostly with some leftover items, so portions may be a little odd.
Ingredients:
1 Hot Italian Sausage
1 large Yellow Onion
Butter
~¼ cup Spinach
Parmesan Cheese
~2 cup Pumpkin Puree Heavy Whipping Cream Fine Grain Sea Salt
fresh ground White Pepper
MSG
fresh Sage
Directions:
Remove the meat from the sausage casing. Cook the meat in a large skillet over medium heat, chopping with a spatula into smaller pieces. Cook until just no longer pink. Remove the meat from the skillet and set aside, but try to keep the grease.
Finely slice the onion and add to the skillet the sausage was cooked in. Season with a pinch of salt. Caramelize the onion over low heat, stir frequently. Add a small pat of butter to the onions if they start to look dry. Remove onions from skillet when they're a deep gold/brown color and set aside, try to keep some of the butter/grease.
Cook the spinach in the reserved onion grease until just wilted. Remove from skillet and set aside.
Add the pumpkin puree to a small mixing bowl. Stir in the heavy whipping cream a tablespoon or two at a time until it has the consistency of cake frosting (maybe about 5 tablespoons). Starting with a teaspoon, stir in the salt. As needed, season additionally to taste by adding a fourth of a teaspoon at a time and tasting. Season to taste with white pepper. Add a sprinkle of MSG, half the caramelized onion, and 1 sprig of sage leaves finely minced.
Preheat your oven as high as it can go with a Baking Steel on the bottom rack for an hour.
Divide the dough in half. Stretch each half into a small circle, 10-12 inch diameter. Spread half of the sauce over each rolled-out crust. Top each pizza with half of the sausage, spinach, remaining onions, and shredded parmesan cheese.
Final Notes:
Sauce was surprisingly sage-y, I would be interested in not adding any to the sauce and only some finely chopped on top, either before or after baking.
I thought I might end up with too much sauce, but it was a nice amount.
Thinly slicing enough parmesan to cover the whole pizza would be nice. The baked slices have a nice texture that's different than grated.
Luke wants to try a hot honey drizzle on top next time.
Cut slices of parmesan held their shape very well after cooking, but more cheese would have been nice.
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