Pear and Blue Cheese Pizza
Pear and Blue Cheese Pizza uses sourdough crust, roasted garlic, and a creamy white base to show why sweet fruit and bold cheese pair so well.
Calories per serving: 235kcal
Ingredients
Pizza Crust
- 1 cup sourdough starter
- 1 cup 00 flour
- ½ cup bread flour
- ¼ cup *flour
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon Frozen Pizza spice
- 1 teaspoon basil
- 1 teaspoon salt
Roasting Garlic
- 1 head garlic, roasted
- 1 tsp *olive oil
Sauce
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon *garlic base
- ½ teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
Topping
- 1 pear, peeled and thinly sliced
- ¼ cup *blue cheese, crumbled
- ¼ cup pizza cheese
Instructions
- Mise en Place
Pizza Crust
- Put the sourdough starter, flours and seasonings for the pizza dough into the bowl of a stand mixer or large bowl. Mix the ingredients together then knead for 4 minutes (mixer) or 10 minutes (by hand). Put a little oil in a bowl and let the dough rise for about an hour.
Roasted Garlic
- Separate the garlic cloves but do not peel them. Put them in a cast iron garlic roaster and pour oil on them.
- Roast them at 350 °F (177 °C) until they have softened inside.
- Let the garlic cool on the counter until they are cool enough to touch.
- Squeeze the garlic into a bowl from the bottom of the clove.
Sauce
- In a small pan, mix the sour cream, roasted garlic, garlic base and black pepper.
Assembly
- Increase the oven temperature to 500 °F (260 °C)
- Roll the pizza dough out to the desired size.
- Put the sauce on the pizza and spread it out. Leave the last inch uncovered.
- Put the pear slices artfully all over the pizza sauce.
- Sprinkle the blue cheese crumbles over the pears.
- Roll up the sides of the crust.
- Sprinkle the pizza cheese over the blue cheese.
- Bake the pizza at 500 °F (260 °C) until the edges of the crust have browned, about 15-20 minutes,.
- Let the pizza cool for about 10 minutes before slicing.
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