This pizza is nothing but olive oil and blackberry smash, topped with mozzarella and parmesan, and dotted with fresh blackberries and fresh basil. It's a refreshing, gourmet twist on pizza that will make you fall in love with pizza all over again. If you've never tried ricotta on a thin-crust pizza, you're in for a treat.
Try our gourmet pizza flavor combinations Cilantro-Lime Chicken Pizza or Jalapeño Scalloped Potato Pizza. Both are just as delicious and easy to make!
Why our recipe?
- Totally unique and different for pizza flavor combinations that will help you re-imagine the endless possibilities of pizza!
- This pizza is easy to put together. We're all for gourmet, but who says gourmet has to be complicated?
The olive oil and blackberry smash sauce is a fresh, light blend that helps pull that tart blackberry flavor throughout the pizza, earning it its name. Then topped with a mozzarella and parmesan cheese blend, you'll have the ultimate cheesy experience with the nutty flavor of parmesan – we're considering topping all our pizzas with this blend, it's so good! With fresh blackberries, strips of basil and dollops of creamy, fresh ricotta cheese, this love baby of ours gives off some cheesy Danish vibes.
Material notes
- Crust: Use your favorite crust or use ours Refrigerate pizza dough, Easy Pizza Doughor Italian style pizza dough.
- Blackberry: Use fresh berries for durability, frozen/thawed berries will be more queen.
- Mozzarella: Freshly cut for maximum meltiness.
- Parmesan: Freshly grated has a sharper flavor, but a jar of pre-grated Parmesan is a solid alternative.
- Ricotta: Usually sold in a plastic tub located in the refrigerated section of your grocery store near cottage cheese or cream cheese. Use a teaspoon for perfectly sized scoops.
- Basil: Stack several fresh basil leaves on top of each other, then roll the bunch lengthwise like a small basil stogie and hold the roll while slicing using a knife – voilà, the perfect basil strip.
Crust option
This recipe makes a 14- to 16-inch pizza and calls for one baked Crust You can always buy premade pizza crust or premade dough at your grocery store which will work great in this recipe, especially if you're short on time.
But if you prefer homemade or want to try your hand at it (it's so easy and tastes so good), we've got you covered with our Easy Homemade Pizza Dough or us Italian style pizza dough.
A berry delicious dilemma…
It's not always berry season and sometimes it can be difficult to find perfect, ripe blackberries. If you are having a hard time getting fresh blackberries, you can use frozen/thawed blackberries, but we have a few tips.
- Thaw the bag of frozen berries in the refrigerator overnight, then pick the largest, whole berries from the bunch and place them on a dry paper towel to help absorb some of the excess juice.
- Use a mesh colander to squeeze out excess juice from the remaining berries, then use half a cup of the thawed berries for the sauce (they may already be a bit mashed, but feel free to break them up a bit more if you like).
- When you're ready to place the blackberries on top of the sliced cheese, use a small paring knife to cut each of your berries in half lengthwise, then place them cut side down on top of the pizza.
Turn on the heat
Our Blackberry Basil Ricotta Pizza is a light sweet and tart pizza, but you can add some spice to the pizza pizza with a sprinkle of cayenne pepper, or a boozy elevated option to sprinkle on your pizza. hot honey. If you haven't tried hot honey, now is your time! We can't get enough of it!
Storage and reheating instructions
Keep in fridge Leftovers in an airtight container up to 3 days.
Reheat Bake the portions in the oven at 375 degrees for about 10 minutes. The goal is to revive that crisp crust and make sure the toppings are heated through. Microwaving is faster but can leave you with a slightly softer crust.
