Grilled Pizza

Grilled Rosemary-Crusted Pizza with chicken andouille sausage, goat cheese and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. This pizza gets a nice smoky flavor from the grilling process. From Gourmet Club May 1998. This recipe makes 4 pizzas, divide as needed.

Makes four 9-inch pizzas

Grilled Pizza With A Nice Dry Red

Dough
1 cup warm water (105 to 115F)
1 T sugar
1 envelope dry yeast
3 T olive oil
3 cups (or more) all-purpose flour
1 ½ t salt
1 T chopped fresh rosemary
Combine water and sugar in food processor. Sprinkle yeast over; let stand till foamy, about 10 minutes. Add oil, then 3 cups flour and salt. Process until dough comes together, about 1 minute. Turn dough out onto floured work surface. Knead dough until smooth and elastic, adding more flour by tablespoons if dough is sticky, about 5 minutes. Lightly oil a large bowl. Add dough; turn to coat with oil. Cover bowl with plastic then a towel. Let stand in warm draft-free area until dough doubles, about 1 hour. Punch down dough. Knead dough in bowl until smooth.
Toppings
¾ cup olive oil
6 T balsamic vinegar
2 T minced garlic
2 T chopped fresh rosemary (For Dough)
1 lb. spicy chicken andouille sausage
2 yellow or red bell peppers, cored, quartered lengthwise
1 large red onion, peeled, cut through root end into ½ inch thick wedges
Whisk first 4 ingredients in medium bowl. Let vinaigrette stand 15 minutes at room temperature or refrigerate up to 2 hours.
Prepare barbeque grill (medium heat). Arrange sausages, peppers, and onion on baking sheet. Brush with some of the vinaigrette. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill sausages until cooked through and peppers and onion until slightly charred and crisp-tender, turning and basting occasionally, about 12 minutes for sausages and 8 minutes for peppers and onion.
Transfer sausages and vegetables to cutting board. Cut sausages into ¼ inch pieces and peppers into thin strips.
Final Preparation:
2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
½ cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
1 ½ cups crumbles chilled soft fresh goat cheese
3 plum tomatoes, halved, seeded, chopped
¾ cup chopped green onion tops

Dust the cookie sheet with corn meal

Add coals to barbeque, if necessary. Mix rosemary into dough. Divide dough into 4 equal pieces. Stretch out each piece on floured surface to 9-inch round.
Place 2 dough rounds on grill. (I made one large pizza for this demo)

Slide the dough onto the grill

 

Grill over medium heat until top of dough puffs out and underside is crisp, about 3 minutes.

It will not stick but do not walk away

Turn rounds over. Grill 1 minute.









Transfer to baking sheet with well-grilled side up. Repeat with remaining 2 rounds.
 

Flip it over when it just starts browning

Sprinkle each with ¼ of the mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
 

Ready to slide the topped pizza onto the grill

When the cheese has melted and just started to brown

Top each with ¼ of the sausage, peppers, and onion, then with ¼ of the goat cheese, tomatoes and green onion. Drizzle each with 1 ½ teaspoons of the vinaigrette.



Using a large metal spatula, return 2 pizzas to grill. Close grill or cover pizzas loosely with foil. Grill until cheeses melt and dough is cooked through and browned, using tongs to rotate pizzas for even cooking, about 5 minutes. WATCH CLOSELY! This can burn easily!

Grilled and ready to serve

Transfer to plates. Repeat grilling for remaining pizzas.









Cut each pizza into fourths and serve.

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