Blackberry Basil Ricotta Pizza

Sustain the connoisseur pizza taste mixture by making an attempt our Cilantro-Lime Chicken Pizza or Jalapeno Scalloped Potato Pizza. Each are simply as scrumptious and straightforward to make as this one!

The olive oil and blackberry smash sauce is a recent, mild mix that helps pull that tart blackberry style all through the complete pizza, incomes its identify. Then 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 recent blackberries, strips of basil, and dollops of creamy, recent 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 will probably 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 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 – 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 if you happen to’re quick on time.

However if you happen to desire home made or wish to strive your hand at it (it’s really easy and tastes a lot better), we now have you coated with our Easy Homemade Pizza Dough or our Italian Style Pizza Dough.

A berry scrumptious dilemma…

It’s not at all times berry season and generally excellent, ripe blackberries will be laborious to seek out. For those who’re having a tough time getting recent blackberries, you need to use frozen/thawed blackberries, however we now have just a few suggestions.

1. 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 number of the extra juice.
2. 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 somewhat extra in order for you).
3. While you’re prepared to position the blackberries on prime 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 aspect going through 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 the boujee elevated possibility of drizzling your pizza with hot honey. For those who haven’t tried sizzling honey, now’s your time! We will’t get sufficient of it!