Blackberry Basil Ricotta Pizza

This pizza is sauced with nothing greater than olive oil and a blackberry smash, topped with mozzarella and parmesan, and dotted with contemporary blackberries and contemporary basil. It’s a refreshing, gourmand twist on pizza that can have you ever falling in love with pizza another time. Should you’ve by no means tried ricotta on a thin-crust pizza then you definately’re in for a deal with.

For extra gourmand pizza taste combos, attempt our Cilantro-Lime Chicken Pizza or Jalapeno Scalloped Potato Pizza.

The olive oil and blackberry smash sauce is a contemporary, mild mix that helps pull that tart blackberry style all through all the pizza, incomes its identify. Topped with a mozzarella and parmesan cheese combine, you get the last word gooey tacky expertise with the nutty taste of parmesan—we’re contemplating topping all of our pizzas with this mix, it’s that good! Topped with vibrant blackberries, contemporary basil, and dollops of sunshine, creamy ricotta cheese, this love youngster of ours offers off some cheese Danish vibes.

Ingredient Notes

• Crust: Use your favourite crust or use our refrigerator pizza dough, easy pizza dough, or Italian-style pizza dough.
• Blackberries: Use contemporary berries for stability, frozen/thawed berries will likely be runnier.
• Mozzarella: Freshly shredded for optimum meltiness.
• Parmesan: Freshly grated has a sharper taste, however a container of pre-grated parmesan is a strong substitute.
• Ricotta: Bought in a plastic tub positioned within the refrigerated part of your grocery retailer often close to cottage cheese or cream cheese. Use a teaspoon for the perfect-sized scoops.
• Basil: Stack a number of contemporary basil leaves on high of one another, then roll the bunch lengthwise like a tiny basil stogie and maintain the roll closed whereas utilizing a knife to chop it into slices and voilà—excellent basil strips.

Crust Choices

This recipe makes one 14 to 16-inch pizza and requires an unbaked crust. You possibly can at all times buy premade pizza crusts or premade dough at your grocery retailer which is able to work nice on this recipe, particularly for those who’re brief on time.

However for those who want do-it-yourself or wish to attempt your hand at it (it’s really easy and tastes a lot better), now we have you coated with our Easy Homemade Pizza Dough or our Italian Style Pizza Dough.

Utilizing Frozen Blackberries

It’s not at all times berry season and generally excellent, ripe blackberries might be laborious to seek out. Should you’re having a tough time getting contemporary blackberries, you should use frozen/thawed blackberries, however now we have a couple of ideas.

Thaw the bag of frozen berries within the fridge in a single day, then choose the biggest, fullest berries from the bunch and place them on a dry paper towel to assist take in a few of the extra juice.

Use a mesh colander to empty the surplus juice from the remainder of the berries, then use a half cup of the thawed berries for the sauce (they may already be barely mashed, however be at liberty to smash them up a little bit extra if you’d like).

If you’re prepared to put the blackberries on high of the shredded cheese, lower every of your berries in half lengthwise with a small paring knife, then place onto the pizza with the lower aspect dealing with down.

Flip Up the Warmth

Our Blackberry Basil Ricotta Pizza is a mildly candy and tart pizza, however you may add some spice with a sprinkle of crushed pink pepper flakes, or for those who’re feeling boujee, attempt drizzling your pizza with hot honey. Should you haven’t tried scorching honey, now could be your time—we are able to’t get sufficient of it!