Homemade Pizza with Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Recipe

It's just a giant big fat sausage of a surprise. Somewhere someone at Pizza Hut said, "What if we stuffed our crust with hot dogs?" And instead of firing that person, they made it. So, obviously, we had to. Not going to lie, I'm loving the idea. You stuff a crust with cheese. That's kind of a no-brainer now. So, why not something else? Why not a hot dog? They're tubular in shape. They could fit that ring around the outside. It just makes sense. I like to know who that person was. That person was a forwardthinking person. So, we're going to do it. Make our own crust. Let

it rise. Pat it out. Make a little sauce, little cheese, some pepperoni. Oh, the hot dogs. Yeah. And then we're off to the oven. I was going to say races, but we wouldn't be off to the races. We'd be off to the oven. So then we're off to the oven. But we start with our dough. We begin with some warm water. It's about 100°. Somewhere between 100 and 120 is fine. You just don't want to kill this yeast that we're putting into it. Give it a stir. Leave that 5 six minutes. In the meantime, we'll get some flour happening. Into the bowl of our stand mixer, we'll put some allpurpose flour.

We're making enough for one dough. Recipes below. Some sugar, a little salt, and not necessary, but I love a little garlic powder in here. Just more flavor. Let's give this a mix. All right, that's mixed. Let's wait for our yeast. All right, we're ready. Let's get this going again. First in, a little olive oil. Like that. Let it mix. See? Mix. And then in goes our yeast business. Oh, we're going to let this go for I don't know 3ish minutes to come together. And you'll need to give it a little helping hand off the edges. Like that. Okay, let's take this out. Put it on the deck and knead it a bit. Extra flour to help cuz it's going to be a little sticky. And it goes. Tiny bit more on

top. And this guy we just want to give a good kneading to for a couple minutes. Get it nice and smooth. And if your bench scraper helps, then your bench scraper helps. It's getting quite lovely. And now we want this little fellow round. Pick them up. Put them in a greased bowl. Just like that. Throw a towel over the top. We're going to let this guy sit for about an hour. In the meantime, we'll make a little sauce. Easy. No cook sauce. I love it. These are beautiful little baby Roma tomatoes. And you'll squish these up just like you would the large size ones. Oh, I love the smell of this. But because tomatoes are fairly acidic, we're going to give this, among other

things, little shot of sugar, salt and pepper, of course, little squeezed garlic. Love it. Little hit of olive oil, and some red pepper flakes. Look at that. 3 minutes and you're done. And we mix. Chunky, gorgeous, beautiful smelling. Just what you want. All right, let's wait for our dough. It's dough time. There we go. Nicely risen. All right, let's take this out. Favorite part of what I do, trying to deal with pizza dough. It's just not my thing. I'm not good at it. Sorry, but I'm not. I mean, the things end up being okay, but round is going to be important here. And I say unfortunately because it generally doesn't work for me. I call it rustic and we're okay. But this kind of has to be round to fit this

hot dog crust. Okay, I see what's going on here. I'm going to get it on here because I'm not going to want to move it once it's shaped. We'll give it a little roll. That's actually not bad. You know, it's been sitting a couple hours and the more you let it sit, obviously the more relaxed it gets. The glutens, Max, it's the glutens. You need that. If you don't have that, if it's not moving, you're going to be in big trouble. Now, hot dog time. Here's what we've got. We've got hot dogs. I like these guys. These are natural casing. And so let's imagine we will have one, two, three, four. But you can see that's what shape is that? That's square. And the pizza is round. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the dogs and I'm

going to put little cuts. And this is going to help take the shape that I want. Don't make hot dogs in semicircle shapes. See, this is actually working. So continue till you've got your dogs seated around the outside of the circle. I think we all know what the next move is. It's this. We have to stretch over and push down. Stretch and push down. Stretch and push. Stretch and seal. That's what I should be saying. Stretch and seal. All right. If you get a little rip, fix it. Okay. I think I'm happy with this. What I'd be really happy with is if I could get it off of here.

Yeah. Well, it's got it has to come off. I know, but you're being rough. Let's do this while we can before it gets even heavier. You always joke about my cornmeal, but I'm telling you something. Gently get a little cornmeal under here. Okay, I think we're golden. I better work quick before it starts heating up. Remember our sauce? Of course you do. I love the fact that there's still some of these little Roma tomato skins in here. I know it ain't about looks, but come on. You got to appreciate a tomato skin, right? We're going to go fairly light on the sauce because we're going to go heavy on the pepperoni. Cheese is next.

I think a decent handful of mozzarell should do it. And I know it's already in the sauce, but a little more red pepper flake is going to make it great. And then it's pepperoni time. And I believe we all understand the pepperoni concept. And the pepperoni concept is this. Pepperoni shrinks like George Castanza getting out of the water and Seinfeld. And you know what that means? That means it gets small. And if there's gaps, there's going to be bigger gaps. So don't let there be gaps. You'll see. That's pretty good coverage. Just telling you there's going to be gaps in this. It's just going to go for fun.

Just give it a tiny bit of cheese on top cuz that always looks pretty. And I'm ready to go. Oven, here I come. And we're there. Look at you. But wait, couple things we have to do first. A little garlic butter around the outside is going to be, you know, come on, an unnecessary but oh so delicious step. You know, you're going to smell it. You lift a piece of pizza up to your mouth, you're going to smell this before you taste anything. And look at the little shine that it gives it. Okay, so that's one. When it goes on hot crust, that's a joy. Two is going to be this. A little fresh parmesan on top.

That will start to melt in, but we'll add that delicious little salty parmesan bite. And then last but not least, and I don't want to f this part up, but so it's a hot dog, so let's go a little mustard because that goes with hot dogs, right? Now, here's a question. Are you a ketchup person? Because if you are, we should do that, too. Are we ketchup people? I am. And I'm not ashamed of it. Well, let's see if I can do this nicely. There you go. A couple spots it comes out a little heavy. You can't help it. It's not a perfect situation. That damn Hines bottle thing. It's always making awful noises and stuff. two.

There we go. There. You look at that. That's pretty. And if I pull this little guy out right here, look at that edge. That's what you do this for. That nonsense. Time waits for no man. And this one is mine. This ridiculous looking thing. Now look, I know the crust has got the dog in it, but your first bite of any slice of pizza has to be there. You know, the sauce is so light. It's so good. And the little bit of red pepper flake makes a difference. Put it in. It's not hot. It's just more interesting. Okay, but now we're going over here. Right there. That's the money shot. Now this is the money bite.

I thought this was so stupid when I first saw it. Gone. Stupidity gone. Makes perfect sense. The hot dog meatiness just works. It just works. It's just a giant big fat sausage of a surprise right there. We don't see it coming. The thing to do is make this, cut it, but leave all the slices like still tight. And then when your guests go up and they pull one out and they go, "What the Oh, did I not mention there's a hot dog in that crust?" Yeah. Oh, I forgot to tell you. Yeah, there's a hot dog. All right. Thanks for hanging out with us. Make it for yourself. I mean, why not? It's all easy.

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