{"id":613,"slug":"cheese-stuffed-crust-pizza","title":"Cheese-Stuffed Crust Pizza","description":null,"ingredients_raw":["Cooking spray","Corn meal","1 can refrigerated pizza crust","7 ea. 1-inch (2.5 cm) pieces of string cheese","½ cup pizza sauce","24 slices pepperoni","1 cup cooked Italian sausage, crumbled","2 cups Italian blend shredded cheese"],"ingredients_norm":["cooking spray","corn meal","refrigerated pizza crust","ea. inch pieces of string cheese","pizza sauce","pepperoni","cooked italian sausage crumbled","italian blend shredded cheese"],"steps":["Preheat oven to 425°F (220C)","Spray 12-inch (30 cm) pizza pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle lightly with cornmeal, if desired.","Starting in the center, press pizza dough in pan beyond the sides of the pan by an inch.","Fold the hanging edge of the dough back toward the middle, placing the sticks of string cheese in the pouch, all the way around the circle.","Pinch the dough to seal in the cheese.","Bake the crust 8 or 10 minutes, or until the edges are light golden and the dough has started to set.","Remove from oven and spread the sauce over the crust with the back of a spoon.","Scatter on the sauce the pepperoni, sausage, and shredded Italian cheese.","Replace in oven and bake until crust is deeply golden brown and the (topping) cheese is melted.","Cut into 6–8 slices."],"categories":["Bread recipes","Inexpensive recipes","United States recipes","Recipes using cheese","Recipes using sausage","Recipes using tomato","Recipes for pizza","Baked recipes","Main course recipes","Recipes using cornmeal","Recipes using cooking spray","Recipes using pizza dough"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":40,"servings":null,"yield_text":"1 ea. 12-inch (30 cm) pizza","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Cheese-Stuffed_Crust_Pizza","source_ref":"4517832","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Cheese-Stuffed_Crust_Pizza&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"a12fb416c194621f5bc02371e10817a97be9665c88310e17d52fb0d06defeb11","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:42:58Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/cheese-stuffed-crust-pizza"}