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 may have you ever falling in love with pizza once more. For those who’ve by no means tried ricotta on a thin-crust pizza then you definitely’re in for a deal with.

For extra gourmand pizza taste mixtures, strive 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 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 baby 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 strong substitute.
• Ricotta: Bought in a plastic tub situated 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 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 is able to work nice on this recipe, particularly when you’re brief on time.

However when you desire do-it-yourself or need to strive your hand at it (it’s really easy and tastes significantly better), we now have 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 typically excellent, ripe blackberries may be laborious to seek out. For those who’re having a tough time getting recent blackberries, you should use frozen/thawed blackberries, however we now have just a few suggestions.

Thaw the bag of frozen berries within the fridge in a single day, then choose the most important, fullest berries from the bunch and place them on a dry paper towel to assist take in among 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 bit of extra in order for you).

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

Flip Up the Warmth

Our Blackberry Basil Ricotta Pizza is a mildly candy and tart pizza, however you possibly can add some spice with a sprinkle of crushed purple pepper flakes, or when you’re feeling boujee, strive drizzling your pizza with hot honey. For those who haven’t tried scorching honey, now’s your time—we are able to’t get sufficient of it!