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, gourmand twist on pizza that can have you ever falling in love with pizza another time. In case 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 recent, gentle mix that helps pull that tart blackberry style all through the complete 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, recent basil, and dollops of sunshine, creamy ricotta cheese, this love little one 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 can be runnier.
• Mozzarella: Freshly shredded for optimum meltiness.
• Parmesan: Freshly grated has a sharper taste, however a container of pre-grated parmesan is a stable substitute.
• Ricotta: Offered 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—good basil strips.

Crust Choices

This recipe makes one 14 to 16-inch pizza and requires an unbaked crust. You’ll be able to all the time buy premade pizza crusts or premade dough at your grocery retailer which can work nice on this recipe, particularly in case you’re brief on time.

However in case you desire do-it-yourself or need to attempt your hand at it (it’s really easy and tastes a lot better), we’ve you lined with our Easy Homemade Pizza Dough or our Italian Style Pizza Dough.

Utilizing Frozen Blackberries

It’s not all the time berry season and typically good, ripe blackberries could be exhausting to seek out. In case you’re having a tough time getting recent blackberries, you should utilize frozen/thawed blackberries, however we’ve a couple of suggestions.

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 number 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 happy to smash them up a little bit extra if you would like).

While 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 going through 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 in case you’re feeling boujee, attempt drizzling your pizza with hot honey. In case you haven’t tried sizzling honey, now’s your time—we are able to’t get sufficient of it!