Milwaukee Pizza (Spain)

Milwaukee Pizza (Spain)
Milwaukee Pizza (Spain)

Milwaukee

This new pizza recipe is high on flavour and low on fuss.

Created well, this type of pizza provides a rare flavor with a classic smell to delight you.

Ensure you always pick the freshest toppings and pair these with a perfect base for your family and friends to enjoy a gratifying homemade pizza meal.

If you enjoy Meat pizzas with Tomato sauce then you’re in luck.

Pizza in Spain

People in Spain enjoy a Mediterranean style diet, based on vegetables, fish, olive Oil, pulses, cereals and other seasonal foods. They also eat approximately 4.3kg each in Pizza per year.

Take a look at some of the other pizzas from Spain here.

Milwaukee Pizza at a glance
Origin Spain
Type Meat
Sauce Tomato Sauce

Milwaukee Pizza Recipe

Below we’ve created a recipe for you to make a delicious homemade Milwaukee Pizza using a woodfired oven or on a pizza stone in your oven.

Preparation time
Dough 2 hours
Assembly 10 minutes
Baking 12-20 minutes

Milwaukee Pizza Ingredients

Choose enough of the pizza toppings for the amount of pizzas you plan to make. The pizza sauce and dough ingredients below are designed for 3-4 pizzas, so scale up or down, based on your requirements.

Milwaukee Pizza

Simple Pizza dough

  • 7 grams (2 tsps) dried yeast
  • 250 ml (1 cup) lukewarm water
  • 2 2/3 cups (400 grams) 00 fine flour
  • 2 tsps salt
  • 1/4 cup (3 tbsp) olive oil

Milwaukee Pizza Toppings

Toppings used in this pizza recipe, are;

  • Italian Sausage
  • Mozzarella

Tomato Pizza Sauce

  • 1 can (6oz/170g) tomato paste
  • 1 can (15oz/420g) tomatoes, whole or crushed
  • 2 large garlic cloves
  • 1/4 a small onion
  • 1 tbsp dried Italian herbs
  • 1 tsp salt

Want to try a different sauce? See our article on the different types of pizza sauces.

TIP

You can click on any of the tags at the bottom of this page, to find other pizzas besides Milwaukee Pizza, that use that topping.

Homemade pizza dough

Pizza Dough Method

If you don’t have much time, grab a premade pizza base at your local grocery store, or hand make your own pizza dough following the simple steps below.

  1. Whisk the lukewarm water and yeast in a plastic or glass jug. Let the mixture stand for approx. five minutes.
  2. Add salt and flour in a large bowl. Create a hollow well in the middle and gently pour the liquid yeast mixture and oil.
  3. Using dough mixer or hands, gently mix dough until smooth. Place pizza dough on a lightly floured work surface and then knead by hand for five minutes.
  4. Lightly oil a bowl, and place mixture in and cover with plastic wrap. Leave in a warm place to rise until the dough doubles in size.
  5. Pour dough mix out onto a clean, floured surface. Now hand knead gently for another five minutes.
  6. Sprinkle a little flour on the bench before rolling to prevent dough from sticking.
  7. Divide dough mixture into equal sized balls. Hand stretch or roll out the bases to the expected size.

TIP: We have other dough recipes if you would like to try your hand at sourdough, poolish or more.

Tomato Pizza Sauce

Tomato Pizza Sauce Method

Purchase a bottle of pizza sauce at your local supermarket, It takes around five minutes to make this yummy pizza sauce following the simple steps below.

  1. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl.
  2. Using either a whisk, or blender, mix well.
  3. Let sit for five minutes.
  4. Your sauce is now ready to use or keep in the fridge for up to 3 days.
  5. You can also freeze leftover sauce.

If you need to freeze this sauce, use an ice cube tray. Each cube is perfect for a small to medium sized pizza.

Preparing Milwaukee Pizza

Preheat your oven to at least 450 degrees for 30 minutes or longer.

Spread out pizza dough on floured surface.

If you have a pizza peel, you can create your pizza on it (after flouring).

Start by spreading the sauce all over the base. This pizza uses Tomato Sauce. Spread the Tomato Sauce Thinly yet evenly, leaving a margin for the crust.

Add the largest toppings first – typically meat or seafood, then the smaller toppings.

Add cheese last, and sprinkle it all over to help keep the toppings in place when it melts.

This pizza has the following toppings:

  • Italian Sausage
  • Mozzarella

Whilst this pizza is very good as is, or you could try it with other pizza types?

Cooking

Put the Milwaukee pizza on the middle shelf in oven, and wait ten minutes.

After approximately 10 minutes, open oven door and check on pizza.

The pizza should be done within roughly 15 minutes. Always cook to personal tastes.

About Sausage

Traditionally, sausages were made from ground beef or pork, with salt, spices and other flavourings. However, now there are chicken and vegetarian and even vegan sausages.
In different countries, Sausages are called different things, such as bratwurst, rolliche, banger, liverwurst, frankfurter, wienerwurst or kielbasa.

Pizza Tools

When making Milwaukee Pizza, it’s always handy to have the right pizza making tools. Here’s the basic pizza tools that I always suggest…

Dough Containers

Having quality, air tight dough storage containers is a must.

Glass Measuring Jug

A good quality, heavy glass measuring jug with clear marking for various measures to me is a must. I hate taking chances with portions, so it’s an important tool for me.

Dough Proofing Box

If you make a lot of dough through the year, you’ll find owning a pizza dough proofing box very useful.

 

Mozzarella

Mozzarella is typically white when fresh, however when seasoned, it often changes to light yellow. Ideally it is served the day after it was made. However it can be kept in brine for a week, or even longer if packaged well.

Mozzarella is the most popular cheese to put on pizza as a topping. It can also be twisted to form a plait, and called Treccia.

Stange Pizza Facts

Here are some facts about pizza.

Most pizzas made in 12 hours (team)

The Asociación Propietarios de Pizzerías y Casas de Empanadas de la Argentina (Argentina) in Buenos Aires, Argentina used five ovens to make 11,089 pizzas between 8.00am and 8.00pm on 11 November 2018.

The most popular pizza cheese

You guessed it! Mozzarella is one of the most popular pizza toppings around the world, no matter what country you are in.

We love maths

There is a mathematical theorem named after pizza cutting. The pizza theorem is so called because it mimics a traditional pizza slicing technique. It states that the equality of two areas that arise when one partitions a disk in a certain way.

Pizza making FAQ

Want to know how to make fantastic pizza at home? Here are some FAQ and their answers to the most common pizza making questions.

Who delivers pizza underwater?

Daniel Blezio is a certified scuba diver and instructor. His daily duties include bringing guests their belongings and he also delivers pizza to guests of the Jules Undersea Lodge, located 22 feet below sea level in a Florida Keys lagoon.

How to cut pizza without pizza cutter?

If you don’t have a pizza cutter, you can use a large kitchen knife, or even scissors!

How long is frozen pizza good for?

It is typically recommended that you do not store frozen pizza for any longer than three months in the freezer.

Have you made Milwaukee Pizza?

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