Pizza dough for medium to large size pizza 1 pound of bulk sausage (type of meat and spiced or not... your choice) Shredded cheddar cheese Ketchup for sauce Sliced jalapenos optional Crumble and cook sausage completely, drain off grease and blot sausage with paper towels to dry off more. Spread pizza dough into rectangular baking sheet Spread with ketchup, amount depends on your preferrence Evenly spread cooked sausage over pizza Evenly spread sliced jalapenos over top (or only on half the way I do) Evenly spread as much of the cheddar cheese as you like over the top. Bake at 350 degrees until crust is cooked and cheese is melted.
No, mostly German. I am not sure I ever saw a jar of herbs in her kitchen. Most of the flavor comes from the type of sausage she used....which was usually the cheapest pork kind she could find. It is good in a different way, you just have to remember not to compare it to anything Italian.
I am 99.99% German but have been raised by my Italian wife for 45 years of my 75 years. You never use catsup for sauce.
The real story 2000 years ago when the Roman legions invaded Germany they brought their pizza with them. For the duration of the occupation pizza delivery was quick and the ingredients were first class. When the legions left, so did the secret recipes. Sausage….no problem, cheese…great, crust….a bakers delight, sauce…..??? Not on the shelf. The Germans resorted to substituting whatever they had for the sauce. This explains the ketchup ingredient on German pizza. Jerry
My Grandmother was one of 6 children of a widowed oil well shooter....she had 7 children herself...she only opened one can of Tomato Soup for lunch and you filled up your bowl with white bread to make it go further. She used Ketsup as a sauce because of her frugal habits not because of any ingrained German cooking she was taught. I had a friend years ago who had recently married an American and moved to the U.S. from Germany. First time she made spaghetti for her husband she put the bottle of ketsup on the table when he asked her what kind of sauce she had for the noodles...might have been only regional but ketchup was her idea of 'sauce' for many things.
Being born to and raised by 2 German parents, I want to say that adding ketchup to ANY meal cooked at home was seen as an insult by the cook. Still to this day, when my Mom sees a grandchild add ketchup the eyes get very wide and she gets very quiet! LOL
My Grandmother didn't keep any of the old ways as far as the culture of where her family came from. Her Mom's side of the family was from Scotland and my Grandmother was born in Pennsylvania and I think her relatives were more interested in distancing themselves from their past than reliving it. I figure she probably used ketchup more because it was cheap. So when I said she was from German ancestry I wasn't implying that she learned to cook the German way, just that she wasn't Italian so didn't know anything about making pizza taste Italian.
Think I will try this, without jalapenos, for my great granddaughter. Flour tortilla crust would be good too. I always need quick and easy lunch ideas for her. Thanks Toni !
