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 can have you ever falling in love with pizza once more. If you happen to’ve by no means tried ricotta on a thin-crust pizza then you definately’re in for a deal with.
Sustain the gourmand pizza taste mixture by attempting our Cilantro-Lime Chicken Pizza or Jalapeno Scalloped Potato Pizza. Each are simply as scrumptious and straightforward to make as this one!
Why Our Recipe
- Completely distinctive and completely different for a pizza taste mixture that can have you ever reimagining the countless potentialities of pizza!
- This pizza is simple to place collectively. We’re all for gourmand, however who mentioned gourmand must be difficult?
The olive oil and blackberry smash sauce is a recent, mild mix that helps pull that tart blackberry style all through your entire 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 baby of ours offers off some cheese Danish vibes.
Ingredient Notes
![An overhead shot of raw pizza dough rolled out, surrounded by fresh ingredients and measuring cups and spoons with other ingredients.](https://thestayathomechef.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Ingredient-Shot_Blackberry-Basil-Ricotta-Pizza-1.jpg)
- 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: Offered 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 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 – voilà, excellent basil strips.
Crust Choices
This recipe makes one 14 to 16-inch pizza and requires an unbaked crust. You may all the time 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 brief on time.
However if you happen to choose 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 side by side collage of the prepped unbaked pizza and a finished baked pizza.](https://thestayathomechef.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Process-Shot_Blackberry-Basil-Ricotta-Pizza.png)
A berry scrumptious dilemma…
It’s not all the time berry season and generally excellent, ripe blackberries may be exhausting to search out. If you happen to’re having a tough time getting recent blackberries, you should utilize frozen/thawed blackberries, however we now have a couple of ideas.
- 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 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 somewhat extra if you would like).
- Once you’re prepared to position the blackberries on high 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 facet going through down.
![A close up of a slice of a blackberry basil ricotta pizza slice being taken from the rest of the pie.](https://thestayathomechef.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Blackberry-Basil-Ricotta-Pizza-Best2.jpg)
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 purple pepper flakes, or the boujee elevated possibility of drizzling your pizza with hot honey. If you happen to haven’t tried scorching honey, now could be your time! We are able to’t get sufficient of it!
Storage and Reheating Directions
Refrigerate leftovers in an hermetic container for as much as 3 days.
Reheat parts within the oven at 375 levels and bake for about 10 minutes. The purpose is to revive that crispy crust whereas guaranteeing the toppings are heated via. Microwaving is fast however may go away you with a barely softer crust.
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