How to Make Pizza Sausage

I have been making homemade pizza for many years. Homemade pizza sausage is super easy to make and tastes delicious. It’s similar to Italian sausage, so you could serve it as patties and eat it on a bun too!

Homemade Pizza Sausage

Making pizza at home, especially with kids, is a fun experience. Growing up my kids always wanted pepperoni. I’ve never liked pepperoni on my pizza. Sausage, onion, green pepper, olives, and mushrooms… now that’s a pizza!

When I learned how to make my own pizza dough, real homemade pizza dough, I was totally hooked. The kids thought it was the best thing since sliced bread and asked for it all the time. They loved helping in the kitchen too.

Fast forward about 15 years and they still love my homemade pizza. Their favorite way is when I make personal sized pies. That way they can customize their own pizza with the toppings of their choice. Me, I always add the sausage.

Ingredients to make sausage at home:

• I use lean ground pork, which can be found at most grocery stores and definitely at your butcher shop. If your store doesn’t have any, grab some boneless pork chops and ask the meat department to grind it up for you.
• A clove of garlic or jarred minced garlic is needed, but not dried minced garlic.
• Dried herbs and spices include paprika, crushed thyme, fennel seeds, cayenne pepper, and regular table salt.

Helpful kitchen tools:

• Skillet, I prefer cast iron
• Mixing bowls
• Measuring spoons
• Spatula or wooden spoon

How to Make Pizza Sausage

This couldn’t be easier, honestly.

1. Place raw ground pork into a mixing bowl.
2. Measure out all your herbs and spices and sprinkle over the pork.
3. Thoroughly mix everything together.

1. Brown the meat mixture in a skillet over medium-high heat.
2. Drain sausage on a paper towel lined plate.

1. Add cooked sausage to your pizza with other toppings of choice.

More recipes to use this sausage:

While I primarily use this recipe for pizza, the sausage is perfect for these recipes as well.

• Italian Sausage Tomato Orzo Soup
• Pepperoni Pizza Lasagna
• Sausage, Pepper, Potato Casserole
• Zuppa Toscana Soup
• Sausage & Pepperoni Pizza Casserole