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 may have you ever falling in love with pizza yet again. If you happen to’ve by no means tried ricotta on a thin-crust pizza then you definitely’re in for a deal with.
Sustain the gourmand 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!
Why Our Recipe
- Completely distinctive and totally different for a pizza taste mixture that may have you ever reimagining the infinite 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 the complete pizza, incomes its title. Then topped with a mozzarella and parmesan cheese combine, you get the last 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 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 might be runnier.
- Mozzarella: Freshly shredded for optimum 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 positioned 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 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, good basil strips.
Crust Choices
This recipe makes one 14 to 16-inch pizza and requires an unbaked crust. You’ll be able to all the time buy premade pizza crusts or premade dough at your grocery retailer which can work nice on this recipe, particularly if you happen to’re quick on time.
However if you happen to desire do-it-yourself or need to attempt your hand at it (it’s really easy and tastes significantly better), we’ve got you lined 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 generally good, ripe blackberries could be arduous to search out. If you happen to’re having a tough time getting recent blackberries, you need to use frozen/thawed blackberries, however we’ve got just a few 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 soak up a number of 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 at liberty to smash them up somewhat extra if you’d like).
- If you’re prepared to put the blackberries on high of the shredded cheese, lower every of your berries in half lengthwise with a small paring knife, then place onto the pizza with the lower facet going through down.


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 sizzling honey, now’s your time! We will’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 by. Microwaving is fast however may go away you with a barely softer crust.
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