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 can have you ever falling in love with pizza another time. If you happen to’ve by no means tried ricotta on a thin-crust pizza then you definitely’re in for a deal with.

For extra connoisseur pizza taste mixtures, attempt our Cilantro-Lime Hen 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 offers off some cheese Danish vibes.

Ingredient Notes

• Crust: Use your favourite crust or use our fridge pizza dough, simple pizza dough, or Italian-style pizza dough.
• Blackberries: Use recent berries for stability, frozen/thawed berries can be runnier.
• Mozzarella: Freshly shredded for max meltiness.
• Parmesan: Freshly grated has a sharper taste, however a container of pre-grated parmesan is a stable 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 recent basil leaves on prime 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 if you happen to’re quick on time.

However if you happen to choose do-it-yourself or wish to attempt your hand at it (it’s really easy and tastes a lot better), we have now you coated with our Straightforward Do-it-yourself Pizza Dough or our Italian Fashion Pizza Dough.

Utilizing Frozen Blackberries

It’s not all the time berry season and generally good, ripe blackberries might be laborious to seek out. If you happen to’re having a tough time getting recent blackberries, you need to use frozen/thawed blackberries, however we have now a couple of ideas.

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 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 at liberty to smash them up just a little extra if you’d like).

Whenever you’re prepared to put the blackberries on prime 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 facet 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 if you happen to’re feeling boujee, attempt drizzling your pizza with sizzling honey. If you happen to haven’t tried sizzling honey, now could be your time—we are able to’t get sufficient of it!