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. If you happen to’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, 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 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, contemporary basil, and dollops of sunshine, creamy ricotta cheese, this love baby 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 shall 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 contemporary 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—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 can work nice on this recipe, particularly should you’re brief on time.

However should you choose selfmade or need to attempt your hand at it (it’s really easy and tastes significantly better), we’ve got 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 might be onerous to search out. If you happen to’re having a tough time getting contemporary blackberries, you need to use frozen/thawed blackberries, however we’ve got a number 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 soak 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 may already be barely mashed, however be at liberty to smash them up just a little extra if you need).

If you’re prepared to position the blackberries on prime 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 facet 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 pink pepper flakes, or should you’re feeling boujee, attempt drizzling your pizza with hot honey. If you happen to haven’t tried sizzling honey, now’s your time—we are able to’t get sufficient of it!