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7 Gourmet Pizza Recipes

Classic Pizza Dough

Once considered “junk food”, pizzas these days can be found on the menu at many gourmet restaurants. By using quality ingredients and mixing various toppings, this previous fast-food dish can now be a desirable delicacy. What makes each pizza unique is the toppings and sauces, making this dough an all-around base for your pizzas. This recipe will yield you an easy-workable dough that will perform well as a base for any pizza topping you can dream of. Good luck!

Ingredients for dough:
Water - 1 cup (lukewarm will work best)
Olive oil - 2 tbsp.
Yeast - 2 tsp.
Salt - 1 tsp.
Sugar - 1 tsp.
Melon, Ricotta, and Pine Nuts Pizza

A summer specialty, this pizza is a little sweet and nutty. Combining one of the summer’s best fruits – the melon, with pine nuts and ricotta cheese, plus the light tang of fresh arugula. It can be a delicious dish, as well as a desert. We suggest our recipe for pizza dough instead of the store-bought option. 

Ingredients for pizza:
Pizza dough - as needed
Ricotta cheese - 1 cup (grated)
Melon - 1 cup (thinly sliced)
Basil leaves - 1/4 cup
Honey - 2 tbsp.
Pine nuts - 2 tbsp. (roasted)
Salt - as needed
Beetroot, Kale, and Goat Cheese Pizza

This pizza swaps the classic tomato sauce with a rich beetroot sauce, upgrades the parmesan cheese with mild goat feta, and combines all these oddities with kale – a super green. Who ever said pizza is junk food? We suggest our recipe for pizza dough instead of the store-bought option. 

Ingredients for beetroot sauce:
Beets - 1 cup (finely chopped)
Walnuts - 1/2 cup (crushed)
Parmesan cheese - 1/2 cup (grated)
Garlic - 3 cloves
Lemon juice - 3 tbsp.
Salt - as needed
Olive oil - 1/2 cup
Ingredients for pizza:
Pizza dough - as needed
Kale - 2 cups (finely chopped)
Mozzarella - 1 1/2 cups
Feta cheese - 1 1/5 oz. (goat feta is best)
Turkish Style Ground Beef Pizza

This Mediterranean take on the Italian pizza is a colorful and flavorful combination of seasoned ground beef and egg. It is the perfect hearty meal for any season, but we think you'd most enjoy it in the winter. We suggest our recipe for pizza dough instead of the store-bought option. 

Ingredients for pizza:
Onions - 1/2 an onion (chopped)
Olive oil - as needed
Ground beef - 1 lbs
Garlic - 1 clove (minced)
Sun-dried tomatoes - 1/4 cup
Pickled cherry peppers - 2 (pureed)
Cumin - 1/2 tsp.
Pizza dough - as needed
Eggs - 4 (optional)
Parsley leaves - 2 tbsp.
Salt and Pepper - as needed
Savoy Cabbage and Sunroot Pizza

This fascinating and delicious combination of root vegetables, topped with pecorino and Emmental cheese, will awaken the pallet of anyone who eats it, sending them to a place of sheer gastronomical bliss. We suggest our recipe for pizza dough instead of the store-bought option. 

Ingredients for pizza:
Lemon - 1 (halved)
Sunroot - 2.2 lbs (A.K.A Jerusalem Artichoke)
Whole milk - 1 1/2 cups
Salt and Pepper - as needed
Onions - 1 (sliced)
Savoy cabbage - 1lbs
Pizza dough - as needed
Emmental cheese - 1/2 cup (grated)
Pecorino cheese - 3 tbsp. (grated)
Thyme - 1 tbsp.
Olive oil - as needed
Peaches, Mozzarella, and Tomatoes Pizza

If you love your cheese, you know that burrata cheese is considered to be the “queen of cheese”, and has a wonderful and juicy texture. It can be a great replacement for mozzarella if you want to enjoy a real treat. We suggest our recipe for pizza dough instead of the store-bought option. 

Ingredients for pizza:
Pizza dough - as needed
Olive oil - as needed
Mozzarella - 1lbs (alternative: burratta cheese)
Corn - 2 cups
Peaches - 2 (sliced)
Cherry tomatoes - 2 cups
Parmesan cheese - 1 cup (grated)
Basil leaves - 1/2 cup
Raspberry, Pecans, and Brie Pizza

Comfort food deluxe. This pizza goes nuts and takes the traditional cheese and jam pastry to a whole new world. It marries fresh raspberry and crunchy candied pecans, that go along perfectly with the nutty taste of the brie. We suggest our recipe for pizza dough instead of the store-bought option. 

Ingredients for pizza:
Butter - 2 tbsp plus more
Brown sugar - 2 tbsp.
Ground cinnamon - 1/4 tsp.
Pecans - 1 cup
Pizza dough - as needed
Brie cheese - 3 oz. (sliced)
Raspberry jam - 1/3 cup
Raspberries - 1 cup (fresh)
Rosemary - 1 tsp.
Honey - as needed
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