Dinner · 40 min · american

Copycat The Works Pizza (Papa John’s style)

Weeknight-friendly American cooking: Copycat The Works Pizza (Papa John’s style) comes together in 40 minutes with pizza dough, crushed tomatoes, and not much else. The macros do the talking: 26g protein, 32g carbs, and 18g fat in every 400-calorie serving. It scales cleanly if you are cooking for more than one.

Ingredients

• 1 lb Pizza dough
• 3/4 cup Crushed tomatoes
• 6 oz Part-skim mozzarella
• 1.5 oz Turkey pepperoni
• 2 oz Canadian bacon
• 4 oz Lean Italian turkey sausage
• 1/2 Green bell pepper
• 1/4 White onion
• 4 Mushrooms
• 8 Black olives
• 1 tsp Dried oregano

Steps

1. Squeeze the sausage out of its casing and brown it in crumbles, then drain — rendered fat is the enemy of a crisp Works pizza.
2. Roll the dough thin, dock it with a fork, and pre-bake 4 minutes at 500°F so the loaded center cannot turn gummy.
3. Season the tomatoes simply with oregano and a pinch of salt; The Works is about toppings, and a fussy sauce fights them.
4. Layer sausage, Canadian bacon, pepperoni, peppers, onion, mushrooms, olives, then cheese — meat under cheese melts into the pie instead of rolling off the slice.
5. Bake 8 to 10 minutes until the edges are leopard-spotted and the sausage sizzles, then cool 3 minutes before cutting into 6.

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