Meat Lover’s Pizza
Homemade thin crust pizza, topped off with two types of cheese, bacon, ham, pepperoni and hot sausage! A must make for meat lover’s.
I’m just a tad excited. Why? Because tomorrow I’m going away. Eek! Heading away somewhere top secret with the Mr to celebrate our 10th anniversary, a few weeks early.
When we got engaged, he whisked me off for a surprise weekend. So I’m basically recreating that – only not entirely, because I’ll say it’s definitely not the same location we got engaged. I haven’t told him anything but what to pack and what the weather will be like. He’ll find out tomorrow. And it’s possible he knows already, but it’s possible he doesn’t too. Either way, he hasn’t said for sure.
Stay tuned…
And until then, you have pizza to tide you over!
I couldn’t skip pizza Friday even if I wasn’t around to celebrate it. This is definitely not for vegetarians. This homemade thin crust pizza is loaded with four delicious varieties of meat… crispy bacon, thin sliced ham, spicy pepperoni and hot sausage! If you’re a fan of salty and spicy meat, then this loaded meat lover’s pizza is for you!
Ditch the take-out and make this tasty pizza at home!
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Meat Lover's Pizza
Ingredients
- 1/2 C water
- 1/2 tsp active dry yeast
- 1/4 tsp granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 C all purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp olive oil if needed
- 1/3-1/2 C Pizza sauce
- 1 1/2 C mozzarella
- 3 Tbsp Parmesan cheese
- 3-4 slices bacon cooked and chopped
- 1/2 C ham roughly chopped
- 1/2 C hot sausage cooked and crumbled
- 1/4 C pepperoni slices
- Ground black pepper
Instructions
- Prepare dough by combining warm water, heated to 115°F, with yeast and sugar. Stir to dissolve and allow to proof.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, add flour and salt. With mixer running on low, slowly add yeast mixture. Increase speed, adding olive oil, if needed or desired. Mix until a ball forms, pulling away from the sides of the bowl. Transfer to a greased bowl. Cover and allow to rise in a warm location until doubled, roughly 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, cook bacon and sausage. Chop bacon and ham. Crumble sausage.
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Grease a baking sheet with olive oil. Shape dough to desired size. Spoon pizza sauce over dough. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and 1/2 cup shredded whole milk mozzarella. Add meat toppings. Finally sprinkle with remaining 1 cup mozzarella and ground black pepper.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until desired crispness is reached. Serve warm.
Oh goodness! My family would devour this!!!! Pinned!
Thanks Meg!
AWww, I hope you guys have a blast on your trip! And this pizza looks great!
Thank you! :)
That is so fun, have the best time celebrating your anniversary!!
Thanks Lauren!
I could be vegetarian probably 95% of the time, but every once in a while, the inner cavewoman takes over and nothing sounds more delicious than a pile of meat (covered in cheese of course)!
Enjoy your trip and anniversary-celebrating :)
I agree… but bacon would just be too hard to give up ;) Thanks Jessica!
This looks amazing! We love pizza, and meat, so this is right up our ally! Happy Anniversary :)
Thanks Ashley!
This is right up my alley!! Ahh it’s making me want pizza so badly! I know where y’all are going so I’ll just meet you guy there ok? Crash the party ;)
hahaha sounds good
What a cute idea!!! A surprise get away! This pizza looks scrumptious so meaty and cheesy!
Thanks Lindsey!
My meat loving pizza men would LOVE this! THanks :)
Thanks Aimee! :)
Have a fun weekend away!!! This pizza looks delicious…perfect for the meat eating boys in my house!
Thanks Jocelyn!
I’d NEVER thought of sprinkling the whole pizza with ground black pepper. What an idea! My farmer husband will adore this recipe. Excited to try it this weekend!
The pepper gives it such a nice touch! Definitely give it a try. And thank you, I hope everyone enjoys the pizza :)
Oh how exciting! I’m sure you’ll have a wonderful time. Can’t wait to hear about it!
Thanks Liz!
I love everything about this! Making it soon!
Thanks Amanda!
This is the perfect pizza to me, love all that meat!!
Thanks Matt!
Wow super impressive. It looks better than the meatlovers from our local pizza shop. I will definitely have to try!
Thanks Jessica!
Ha, this would be my husband’s favorite pizza. I have a strict rule about only one meat per pizza. He is always wanting the supreme with as much meat as possible. Our key to a happy marriage – two pizzas.
We do the same thing! Always two, to please both preferences :)
I love pizza! This has all my favorite meats, ham, sausage, pepperoni and bacon and of course cheese, Pinned!
Thanks Cathy!
Friday is pizza night, your timing is perfect!
Awesome! :)
Sounds like a great getaway! Hope you have a great time!
This pizza needs to be added to our pizza night soon!
Thanks Jessica!
I hope that you guys have a WONDERFUL trip. I managed to pull off a surprise trip for Price’s bday once. He didn’t know where we were going until we got to the gate.
Can you please deliver pizza to me one day? pretty please!!!
One of these days we should totally plan a pizza outing ;)
Oh Lord, I need a whole one of these in front of me right now!! Looks so delicious.
Thanks Annie!
I’m making this for my boyfriend.. like now
Enjoy! :)
when you say mix which attachment are you using?
The dough hook should be used for this recipe.
Just made this today, all the family said it was awesome!!!!!!!
I’m glad everyone enjoyed it, Wendy!
the recipe does not say when to add the yeast mixture
The recipe states to add the yeast in step 2. Enjoy! :)
This looks SO delicious! Need to try!
Love to try this pizza recipe but what sort of sausage do you mean
I used hot Italian sausage for this recipe. You can use whichever flavor or heat level you prefer. You can use pre-ground or links removed from their casings and then cooked and crumbled.