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 recent blackberries and recent basil. It’s a refreshing, connoisseur twist on pizza that may have you ever falling in love with pizza over again. In the event you’ve by no means tried ricotta on a thin-crust pizza then you definately’re in for a deal with.

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

The olive oil and blackberry smash sauce is a recent, mild mix that helps pull that tart blackberry style all through the whole pizza, incomes its title. Topped with a mozzarella and parmesan cheese combine, you get the final 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, recent basil, and dollops of sunshine, creamy ricotta cheese, this love youngster of ours provides 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 recent berries for stability, frozen/thawed berries will likely be runnier.
• Mozzarella: Freshly shredded for max 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 situated within the refrigerated part of your grocery retailer normally close to cottage cheese or cream cheese. Use a teaspoon for the perfect-sized scoops.
• Basil: Stack a number of recent 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 may at all times buy premade pizza crusts or premade dough at your grocery retailer which can work nice on this recipe, particularly if you happen to’re brief on time.

However if you happen to desire do-it-yourself or wish to attempt your hand at it (it’s really easy and tastes significantly better), we’ve you lined 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 could be laborious to search out. In the event you’re having a tough time getting recent blackberries, you should utilize frozen/thawed blackberries, however we’ve a number 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 up 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 could already be barely mashed, however be at liberty to smash them up just a little extra in order for you).

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

Flip Up the Warmth

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