Spicy Sopressata Pizza with Hot Honey
Fluffy Sicilian style crust pizza topped with spicy sopressata, fresh mozzarella, and fragrant basil drizzled in hot honey.
Equipment
- 16-inch Pizza Pan
Ingredients
Pizza Crust
- 2 teaspoons instant dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 1 ¾ cups warm water
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- 5 cups all purpose flour
- 4 tablespoons butter melted, to brush crust before and after baking
Pizza Sauce
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 15 ounces tomato sauce
- 2 tablespoons oregano
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Hot Honey
- 1 cup honey
- 6 dried chili peppers chopped
Pizza Toppings
- 12 ounces fresh mozzarella drained and torn into rough chunks
- 6-10 ounces hot sopressata
- 10-15 fresh basil leaves
- fresh parmesan optional
Instructions
Pizza Dough
- In a bowl of a stand mixer or a large bowl, combine yeast, sugar, salt, water, olive oil, and flour.
- Knead on low or hand knead until dough starts to come together. Continue kneading until the dough forms a soft ball, and all sides of the bowl are clean. Add more flour if needed to achieve this texture.
- Dust a sheet pan with flour and set the dough on it. Lay a hand towel on top of the dough and rest for 5 hours.
Pizza Sauce
- In a medium-sized bowl, mix tomato paste and tomato sauce together until smooth.
- Add the oregano, fresh parsley, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper and mix again.
- Set aside.
Hot Honey
- Add honey and chopped dried chiles to the saucepan. Heat over low-medium heat to a bare simmer. Do not boil!
- Just as the mixture starts to simmer, turn the heat down to low. Cover and cook for about 30 minutes to infuse the chiles.
- Remove from heat and strain mixture into an airtight container.
Put it all together
- Preheat the oven to 550F.
- On a 16-inch pizza pan, place your dough. Gently stretch dough the size of the pan, about ¼ inch thick. Make edges of pizza dough a little thicker to form the crust.
- Spread a layer of pizza sauce around the pizza, leaving a 1-inch border around the edge. Brush melted butter on the crust edges and sprinkle garlic powder and dried parsley.
- Grab the fresh mozzarella, rip chunks with your hands, and place them evenly dispersed over the pizza. Followed by the spicy sopressata, and followed by the basil leaves.
- Transfer pizza to the oven and cook for approximately 16-20 minutes or until the crust is golden and toppings are bubbly.
- Cool for 5 minutes before serving. Brush crust with remaining melted butter. Drizzle hot honey on top and fresh parmesan.