Made Just Right! Breakfast Pizza
Get a light and healthy start to your day by munching on this Whole Grain Pizza Crust topped with sausage, eggs, mozzarella and parmesan cheese, shallots, and Baby Bella mushrooms. It's just the right amount of yum to get your day to a beautiful start.
Ingredients
Pizza crust
- 1 pkg active dry yeast
- 3/4 cup water 105-115℉
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 3/4 cup white whole wheat flour or all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup semolina flour affiliate link
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- cornmeal for dusting baking sheet
Pizza
- 1/2 pound ground breakfast sausage
- 5-6 baby bella mushrooms sliced
- 4 eggs
- 1 shallot chopped (divided)
- 1/4 cup scallions minced (divided)
- 4 teaspoons chives minced (divided)
- 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese divided
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese divided
Instructions
Pizza Crust
- In a bowl combine active dry yeast and warm water. Let stand for 5 minutes at least, or until yeast is dissolved.
- Transfer to bowl of stand up mixer. Add flours, sugar, salt, and olive oil . Mix on low speed for one minute.
- Using dough hook, increase speed to medium-low for 7 minutes. Can also knead dough by hand for 10 minutes.
- Transfer dough to a bowl lightly coated with oil. Flip dough over to coat both sides. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 1 hour.
- Grease 2 baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray. Lightly dust each baking sheet with cornmeal.
- Punch down dough and divide it into two halves.
- Roll each half into a ball and let rest for 10 minutes, covered loosely with plastic wrap.
- On a floured surface, flatten each ball of dough and roll out into somewhat of a 10-12 inch round.
- Transfer dough to baking sheets. Pinch edges all the way around to form a lip.
Pizza Toppings
- Preheat oven to 450℉.
- Cook sausage in a fry pan over medium high heat for about 6-8 minutes or until cooked through. Meanwhile heat 1/2 tablespoon olive oil over medium heat in a small pan. Add sliced mushrooms and cook for 8 minutes.
- Sprinkle 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese over each pizza crust followed by 1/4 cup parmesan cheese over each crust.
- Crack 2 eggs over each crust being careful not to break the yolks.
- Evenly add sausage and mushrooms to each pizza crust, followed by chopped shallot.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes and crust is golden brown. Baking for 12 minutes may give slightly runny yolks.
- Top pizzas with scallions and chives and more parmesan cheese if desired.
Notes
Can prepare the crust without a stand-up mixer. Simply mix the yeast mixture with the flours, sugar, salt, and olive oil together in a large bowl, and then knead by hand for 10 minutes.