Meat Lovers Pizza ~ Recipe | Queenslee Appétit (2024)

FAQs

What does meat lovers pizza have on it? ›

Every Meat Lover's® pizza is fully loaded with pepperoni, Italian sausage, ham, bacon, seasoned pork & beef.

Pizzas usually don't take very long to bake, and the bake time is really to crisp the dough and melt the cheese. Raw meats — like sausage, chicken, or bacon — usually won't cook through in the short baking time, so they should be precooked.

You can do any order you want, though I strongly suggest putting the dough on the bottm. :-) Typically, one smears the dough with thick pizza sauce, add extra seasoning if desired (like a little hot pepper, garlic power, oregano) then add toppings. I start by putting meats on carefully so they are evenly distributed.

Depending on where you live, supreme may be used to denote a pizza with a smattering of pepperoni, sausage, onions, and peppers, or that list can be amended to include mushrooms, pork, beef, olives, and more.

Cheese always goes belowthe toppings

You've got your dough as the foundation. Then your sauce. The cheese is the next solid layer. Then your toppings (after all, they're called top-pings and not bottom-ings), and then finally your garnishes like basil, pepper, fresh mozzarella, etc, after the pizza is cooked.

The sausage might fully cook in the oven, but cooking it in a pan first makes it brown and add extra flavor. You don't have to cook it through on the stove, just enough to get some browning on it. Then put it on the pizza and bake.

Pizza oil is intended to be drizzled over a pie fresh from the oven. It can either amplify the flavors already present in the pizza or complete the flavor profile with complementary ingredients.

Fennel sausage, pepperoni, uncured bacon

Nonetheless, it's hard to go wrong when combining this crowd pleasing topping with sausage and bacon to create an amazing trinity of toppings. The fennel sausage adds further dimension to this combination, offering a fresh, spring-like aroma that many liken to anise.

What is the most popular meat pizza topping? ›

This may not come as a surprise, but pepperoni is by far the most popular pizza topping in the United States.

Meat lovers don't have to lose out. Swap out fatty meats like pepperoni and pork sausage for thinly sliced (leaner) cuts of salami, turkey bacon and chicken sausage. Instead of simply eating less pizza, serve it up with a large salad.

The smaller the piece the less time it will take to cook, so when I do slices of onions or bell peppers I slice them as thin as I possibly can and then there's no need to pre-cook them. If I'm doing chunks, or less than finely diced peppers and onions I always cook them first.

The best oven temperature for pizza is between 450 and 500 degrees F (250 to 260 degrees C). Pizza ovens cook at temperatures between 800 and 900 degrees F. You can't get that hot in your home oven, but the higher you can go, the better. Place a pizza stone on a lower oven rack.

Here is what I have found to be the best layering: pizza sauce, cheese (3/4) portion, pepperoni + onions + mushrooms + red pepper, cheese (1/4) portion. So I like to put the layer of cheese on the top for the toppings to melt underneath it and sort of get trapped.

For my version, I'm using my favorite pepperoni cups, chopped bacon, and Italian sausage. They sit atop the perfect amount of pizza sauce and lots of melty mozzarella cheese. You can get creative and modify the toppings to your liking, adding more pepperoni, no bacon, or whatever toppings your heart desires.

Freshly sliced pepperoni + beef + sausage + Canadian bacon = 4 Meat Pizza.

Pizza Hut Melts are available in 4 recipes: - Meat Lover's® - pepperoni, ham, Italian sausage, beef, bacon and cheese. Served with marinara for dipping. - Chicken Bacon Parmesan - chicken, bacon, creamy Alfredo sauce and cheese.