Bacon Jalapeño Pizza

This Bacon Jalapeño Focaccia Pizza is smoky, sweet and spicy! Homemade focaccia pizza dough is topped with (homemade) pizza sauce, a blend of mozzarella and fontina cheeses, sliced pepperoni, crispy bacon and spicy jalapeños. Once baked, drizzle with hot honey and sprinkle with red chili flakes. (prep time includes making the dough. If preparing the homemade sauce, allow for more time.)

Yields 8 slices.

Course Mains & Entrees

Cuisine American, American-Italian

Keyword dinner, focaccia, homemade pizza, hot honey, pizza friday

Prep Time 1 45

Cook Time 18

Total Time 2 3

Servings slices

Calories 314

Author Laurie McNamara

Ingredients

1 recipe focaccia pizza dough
2/3 cup pizza sauce more or less if desired
2 cups mozzarella grated
1 cup fontina grated
24 pepperoni slices
6 slices center cut bacon cooked and finely chopped
1 to 2 medium jalapeños sliced
1 drizzle hot honey more or less as desired
red pepper flakes for extra spice (optional)

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Instructions

Prepare the focaccia pizza dough as directed. Follow all steps through the first rise, and then stretch it out into the oiled pan. Lightly cover with a clean kitchen towel and let rise for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, prep the toppings.
Cook the bacon until just crispy, remove and finely chop. Measure out the pizza sauce (more or less as desired), freshly grate both cheeses and together in a bowl, slice the jalapeños, grab the pepperoni, hot honey and red pepper flakes – if using.
Once the dough has risen the second time, use your knuckle to make indentions in the dough.
Spread with pizza sauce and top with 1/2 of the cheese mixture. Next sprinkle with pepperoni, bacon and jalapeños and lastly, the remaining cheeses.
Bake on the middle or lower third of your oven for 9 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 375°, rotate the pan and continue baking for 9 to 12 more minutes or until the cheese has melted and is golden brown in spots.
Allow the pizza to cool in the pan slightly before using a spatula and carefully removing and transferring to a cutting board.
Drizzle with hot honey and sprinkle with red pepper flakes if desired.
Cut down the middle and then across to yield 8 pieces.

Notes

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