Pizza with Honey Whipped Ricotta
The sweet and savory flavors of this pizza make it the perfect appetizer or main meal. Roasted vegetables paired with honey and balsamic create a pizza like you've never tried before.
Ingredients
Dough
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 1 T sugar
- 1 t salt
- 2 T olive oil
- 2 t yeast
- 1 ½ cups warm water
Honey Whipped Ricotta
- 16 oz. ricotta cheese
- 8 oz. cream cheese softened
- 4 T honey
- ¼ t sea salt
- ¼ t black pepper
- ½ t rosemary
- ½ t sage
- ½ t thyme
- ¼ t nutmeg
- ¼ t cinnamon
Other
- 1 package cherry tomatoes
- 1 red pepper cut into small pieces
- ½ cup mozzarella cheese
- ¼ cup basil leaves or spinach leaves
- olive oil for drizzling
- salt and pepper
- balsamic glaze for drizzling
Instructions
Dough
- Combine the flour, sugar, salt, olive oil, yeast, and water in a stand mixer with a dough hook. If you don't have a stand mixer you can do this by hand with a spoon, it'll will just take a little more muscle!
- Mix on low until the dough comes together. Make sure to be scraping the excess flour stuck to the side of the bowl.
- Up the speed and continue mixing for 2-3 minutes.
- Cover and let it rise for 45 minutes.
Honey Whipped Ricotta
- Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, add the cream cheese to a bowl and whip it until it's smooth.
- Add the ricotta cheese and whip the cream cheese and ricotta together until it's fluffy.
- Add the honey, sea salt, black pepper, rosemary, sage, thyme, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Whip it until it's all combined and adjust to your taste!
Making the Pizza
- Preheat oven to 425° F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Pour the dough out of the bowl it's in and onto the baking sheet. Using wet hands, spread the dough out so that it covers the baking sheet.
- While the dough is still wet, spread the ricotta mixture over the top.
- Sprinkle the mozzarella on top.
- Add the cherry tomatoes, red peppers, and basil leaves on top.
- Lightly drizzle olive oil on top and season with salt and pepper.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until lightly golden around the edges.
- Take it out of the oven and let it cool. Drizzle the balsamic glaze on top.
Notes
If you don't have a balsamic glaze, heat 2 cups of balsamic vinegar and 1/2 cup of brown sugar (or white sugar) over low/medium heat and let it reduce for about 10 minutes. Be careful because it can burn and turn sticky and unuseable very quickly!