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 simple to make as this one!

The olive oil and blackberry smash sauce is a recent, gentle mix that helps pull that tart blackberry style all through all the 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 youngster 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 recent 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 strong substitute.
• Ricotta: Bought 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 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, good basil strips.

Crust Choices

This recipe makes one 14 to 16-inch pizza and requires an unbaked crust. You possibly can 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 favor selfmade or need to attempt your hand at it (it’s really easy and tastes significantly better), now we have you coated with our Easy Homemade Pizza Dough or our Italian Style Pizza Dough.

A berry scrumptious dilemma…

It’s not all the time berry season and typically good, ripe blackberries may be onerous to search out. In the event you’re having a tough time getting recent blackberries, you need to use frozen/thawed blackberries, however now we have a couple of suggestions.

1. 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.
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 happy to smash them up somewhat extra if you need).
3. While you’re prepared to position 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 possibly can add some spice with a sprinkle of crushed purple pepper flakes, or the boujee elevated possibility of drizzling your pizza with hot honey. In the event you haven’t tried sizzling honey, now’s your time! We will’t get sufficient of it!