The Best Damn Breakfast Pizza Ever!

I love a good slice of breakfast pizza! But let's be honest, when you grab it from the gas station it's probably loaded with thawed out veggies and powdered eggs. Anyway, my love of breakfast pizza along with my love of breakfast for dinner, had me searching high and low for the perfect recipe. After looking at dozens of different ones, I shut my laptop and said, "Screw this...I'm going to wing it!" Forget winging it...According to the guys in this house (and my humble self)! I've included my crust recipe because I love a good homemade pizza crust, but you can certainly grab a premade crust from the store. Also, feel free to add or subtract different veggies. I made a delicious, smaller second pizza for my son and only topped it with meat, eggs, and cheese. Trust me when I say don't add a lot more cheese...it doesn't need it...and I'm the queen of dumping extra cheese onto your standard pepperoni pizza! My only regret is that I didn't get a better picture because we were so lost in pizza nirvana, I didn't think of it. 

The Best Damn Breakfast Pizza Ever
Crust:
2 ½ to 3 cups all purpose flour
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 packet (2 ¼ teaspoons) quick active yeast
3 Tablespoons olive or vegetable oil
1 cup of very warm water (about 125 degrees)


Whisk together 1 cup of the flour, yeast, salt, and sugar. Add oil and warm water, mixing with a wooden spoon for just a few seconds. (It doesn't have to be totally mixed at this point) Let that sit for about five minutes and then stir in the rest of the flour. Now at this point, I use the dough hook attachment on my mixer for about 5 minutes, but you can mix it well by hand for a couple of minutes and then turn it out on a lightly floured surface and knead the dough for about 5 minutes. Cover with a towel or plastic wrap and let rise for about 30 minutes or until doubled. This is a good time to start mixing up the “gravy” and frying up the sausage and bacon.


Preheat oven to 425. Press or roll dough onto a greased cookie sheet or pizza pan and then give it some random pokes with a fork to keep it from bubbling up in the oven. Bake for about 10 minutes or until it just barely starts browning and remove to add toppings. After the toppings are on, return to oven for another 10-15 minutes.


The Good Stuff
2 Tablespoons butter
2 Tablespoons flour
1 Cup milk
1 Pound breakfast sausage (I like the “hot” Jimmy Dean's)
3-4 Large eggs (and a splash of milk)
½ Cup chopped peppers (green, red, yellow, whatever you like)
¼ Cup chopped onion
4 slices cooked and crumpled bacon (I cook the bacon in the microwave)
1 ½ Cups shredded mozzarella cheese
½ Cup shredded cheddar cheese


Fry up the sausage and crumble it up. Set that aside (I dump it into a bowl lined with paper towels to get rid of the grease) On Medium heat, melt butter in sauce pan. Stir in flour and continue stirring often for 3-4 minutes. Whisk in 1 cup milk. Cook, stirring often, until it reaches a gravy consistency. Stir in ½ the sausage and set aside. Mix up your eggs with a splash of milk and cook as you normally would cook scrambled eggs.
Once your crust has done it's first bake, spread the sauce mixture evenly across the crust, top with veggies, bacon, the rest of the sausage, scrambled eggs, and finally the cheese. Return to oven and bake for 10 minutes.