Pizza Beans with Chicken Sausage

Name: Pizza Beans with Chicken Sausage
Prep time: 10
Cook time: 35
Total time: 45
Yield: 1
Ingredients: olive oil; large onion, chopped; Italian Herb Chicken Sausage links, diced (reserve ½ sausage and slice thinly into rounds for topping); large cloves garlic, minced; dried oregano; red pepper flakes; 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes; 15-ounce cans cannellini beans, drained; grated mozzarella cheese; grated Parmesan cheese; roughly chopped Italian parsley, optional, for garnish; Toasted garlic bread, for serving

Prep Time: 10 min | Cook Time: 35 min | Servings: 1

Appetizers and Snacks

Game-Day

Italian Herb

Pizza

Pizza has evolved at a pace that would make Charles Darwin marvel (and drool). What started as a round pie sliced into triangles has expanded into squares, pockets, oblong Roman slabs, deep-dish giants, and crusts made from everything from flour to cauliflower to chicken cutlets. At this point, the rules are pretty loose.

Which brings us to pizza beans—a crustless, one-skillet take on pizza that eats like a hearty dip and works just as well for game day as it does for a casual dinner party. Tomatoes and cannellini beans form the saucy base, while Italian Herb Chicken Sausage steps in where pepperoni usually lives, adding basil, Calabrian chilies, and juicy chicken to every bite. Finished with melty mozzarella, Parmesan, and even more crispy sausage on top, this is the kind of scoopable, crowd-friendly dish that disappears fast — especially when there’s garlic bread involved.

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Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 large onion, chopped

Italian Herb Chicken Sausage links, diced (reserve ½ sausage and slice thinly into rounds for topping)

3 large cloves garlic, minced

½ teaspoon dried oregano

¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes

1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes

2 15-ounce cans cannellini beans, drained

2 cups grated mozzarella cheese

¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese

2 tablespoons roughly chopped Italian parsley, optional, for garnish

Toasted garlic bread, for serving

Instructions

Prep Time: 10 min | Cook Time: 35 min | Servings: 1

Heat the oven to 450°F.

Heat the olive oil in a 12-inch oven-safe skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring, for about 3 minutes, until softened and translucent. Add the diced sausage and continue cooking for about 5 minutes, until both the onion and sausage begin to lightly brown.

Next, stir in the garlic, oregano, and red pepper flakes and cook for 1 minute or so, until fragrant. Season with a generous pinch of salt and pepper.

Add the crushed tomatoes and beans and stir to combine. Bring it all to to a simmer, then reduce the heat to medium-low and cook for about 10 minutes, until slightly thickened.

Sprinkle the mozzarella and Parmesan evenly over the beans, then scatter the reserved sausage rounds on top. Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake for 10–15 minutes, until bubbly and golden.

Remove from the oven, sprinkle with parsley (totally optional, totally worth it), and serve hot with toasted garlic bread.