Any night is Italian night when you start with store bought pizza dough to make this scrumptious sheet pan Italian American pizza. There are a lot of flavors going on in the topping. Use your favorite tomato sauce or keep a stash of homemade in the freezer. Keep some homemade meatballs in the freezer too and take out as needed.

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Sheet Pan Pizza

INGREDIENTS

3 tablespoons olive oil

1 pound package pizza dough at room temperature

1 cup tomato sauce

8 precooked meatballs, finely chopped

½ cup thin sliced pepperoni

3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

1 cup shredded provolone cheese

1 tablespoon dried oregano

Hot red pepper flakes to taste

DIRECTIONS

Preheat the oven to 450F

Brush a sheet pan with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Gently press the dough evenly into the pan with your hands out to the edges. Spread ½ cup of the tomato sauce in a thin layer over the dough.

Top the sauce evenly with the meatball mixture. Scatter the pepperoni over the meatball mixture. Sprinkle the mozzarella and provolone cheeses over the peperoni. Dab the remaining ½ cup of the tomato sauce over the top. Sprinkle the oregano evenly over the top and drizzle on the remaining olive oil.

Bake until the crust is golden brown and puffy, about 25 to 30 minutes.

Serve hot cut into squares. Pass the pepper flakes. Serves 6.