Grilled Pizza

We made a grilled sausage & veggie pizza tonight and mmmmmmm... was it good!  It was too good not to share the recipe, in fact!  It's a Bobby Flay recipe, so you just KNOW it's good! Todd & I tried it last summer and were quickly obsessed with it!  We also learned that it is a great meal for us to cook together- and when it was all said and done, it only took about 20 minutes to prepare!  

So here's what you need:

1/2 lb. Italian sausage (we used 4 of the HEB original sausage links.  It was kind of a lot, but it was good, so don't judge!)
1/2 red onion, cut into 1/4 inch rings
1 red bell pepper
1 yellow bell pepper
Olive oil
Salt & pepper
Oregano
Store bought pizza dough, cut into 4 equal pieces
1/2 lb. Monterey Jack cheese (Bobby's recipe calls for Fontina)

{Grill the sausage links on both sides until they are browned and cooked through- about 10 minutes.  Brush the peppers & onions with olive oil and sprinkle salt and pepper.  Grill the veggies until they are soft- about 4 minutes.  Once they are cooked, remove from the grill and cut the sausage into 1/4 inch slices and roughly chop the veggies.

Brush the pizza dough with olive oil and sprinkle with a little oregano.  Put the pizza dough on the grill and grill both sides until it is golden brown and you can see grill lines- about 3 minutes.  Take the dough inside and assemble your pizzas with sausage, peppers, and onions.  Top the pizzas with a little cheese.

To melt the cheese, put the pizzas on a baking sheet in a preheated to 450 degree oven for about 5-10 minutes (until the cheese melts)

and then you top all of that with a basil vinaigrette, which is the BEST part, so don't skip it!}

Basil Vinaigrette
1/2 cup fresh basil leaves
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
1 TBS honey
Salt & pepper

{Blend all vinaigrette ingredients in a blender & drizzle over pizza}

And there you have it!  Yum yum.

Side note: In Bobby Flay's recipe, he has about twice as many veggies, but I don't know how he fits all of that on a pizza.  2 bell peppers are PLENTY!  He also tops the pizza with ricotta/oregano, but in our opinion, it didn't add anything but calories to the pizza.