There's really nothing like a freshly fired Burrata pizza loaded with creamy burrata, salty prosciutto and a squeeze of olive oil. It's a trio of perfection and this Burrata Pizza needs to be in your pizza night rotation asap, I know you'll be obsessed.
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Why I Love This Recipe
Pizza night has been a longstanding tradition at our house. It typically occurs on a Friday and it's the perfect way to welcome the weekend. It ranges from just the 3 of us to a larger crew if we go big and invite friends. I fire up the outdoor pizza oven if the weather permits or plug in our indoor pizza oven and go to town. I'll always do a mix of 2-3 different pizzas and more times than not, that include this Burrata Pizza. It's salty and creamy and very easy to whip up.
Ingredients & Substitutions
- 1 pound of store bought or homemade pizza dough
- Olive oil
- Garlic
- Parmesan
- Burrata
- Prosciutto
- Basil, fresh or fried
- Red pepper flakes
How to Make
Preheat your oven to 500 degrees (or preheat your indoor pizza oven to 650-700)
Thirty minutes before cooking the pizza, put your pizza stone in the oven.
Stretch out your pizza dough using your hands in a circular motion, then lay it on a flat surface and flatten it out using a rolling pin. If you have a pizza peel, sprinkle some flour on it and place the stretched out dough on the peel.
Once your dough is flat and ready to be heated, use a spoon to spread the oil, garlic and parm all around the dough leaving a little bit for the crust.
Pop your pizza peel in the oven and slide it over the stone for 8-12 minutes.
Once the crust is cooked, remove from the oven and slather with the burrata and prosciutto.
Garnish the Burrata Pizza with fried basil, salt, and red pepper flakes. Cut into 6-8 slices and serve immediately.
Tips & Tricks
If you're making your own pizza dough, grab a bag of 00 flour. It's a finer ground flour that allows for a softer and better dough. This is key because no one wants a tough pizza. If you can’t find 00 flour at your local grocery store, you can also order it from Amazon.
As I mentioned above, it's super important to let your pizza dough come to room temperature before trying to mold it into your pizza shape. I take it out at LEAST 30 minutes before forming, but it's best if you can let it sit at room temperature for 45-60 before shaping into a circle, oval or rectangle.
If you don't have a pizza oven or pizza peel, you can make pizza on a baking sheet without issue! Just be sure to have your oven on 500 so you can get the crust as crispy and perfect as possible.
FAQ's
Burrata is a type of Italian cheese made from mozzarella and cream. It has a soft and creamy interior with a firm outer shell.
After baking as it's such a delicate cheese, it will get too watery if it's on before the dough goes into the oven.
Fior di Latte is a type of fresh mozzarella cheese made from cow's milk, while burrata is a cheese made from mozzarella and cream.
Heat a thin layer of oil in a heavy duty pan, add the basil leaves, and fry until crispy. Carefully remove and let dry on a paper towel.
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Burrata Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Homemade Pizza Dough
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic finely chopped
- ¼ cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 8 ounces burrata cheese
- 3 ounce thinly sliced prosciutto
- handful of fresh basil fried or torn into pieces
- red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 500 degrees.
- Thirty minutes before cooking the pizza, put your pizza stone in the oven.
- Stretch out your pizza dough using your hands in a circular motion, then lay it on a flat surface and flatten it out using a rolling pin. If you have a pizza peel, sprinkle some flour on it and place the stretched out dough on the peel.
- Once your dough is flat and ready to be heated, use a spoon to spread the oil, garlic and parm all around the dough leaving a little bit for the crust.
- Transfer your pizza on the pizza peel in the oven and slide it over the stone to bake for about 8-12 minutes.
- Once the crust is cooked, remove from the oven and slather with the burrata and prosciutto. Garnish with fried basil, salt, and red pepper flakes. Cut into 6-8 slices and serve immediately.
Notes
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Photo by Matt Armendariz / Food Styling by Adam Pearson / Recipe from What's Gaby Cooking
I stumbled across your IG picture and your menu planning is to die for
I’ve shared it now with at least dozen ppl
I will be following you for sure and making this delicious recipe this weekend
Cheers
Satu
So good! Even following directions it was still a little watery- just poured some off and topped it with arugula. A winner!
Hello, this pizza sounds delicious/ but it looks like I’ve missed your instructions for “fried basil”.
~Beth
Any hints for how to dry out the burrata? Mine ended up losing a lot of moisture while cooking and made the pizza soggy. Still delicious, but wondering if there's a way to avoid this?
you put the burrata on AFTER you bake the dough! If you do it before, it gets too wet 🙂
Made the pizza - it was very flavorful, used store bough pizza dough from deli for easy qick meal. I tried to fry the basil, it looked pretty but had no flavor, ended up adding Fresh basil and a little mozzarella. Would make again.
Freakin amazeballs! Will you ever think about including nutritional counts in your recipes?
we don't do nutritional value right now - maybe down the road one day but I always encourage people to do it via their own apps so you can guess how many servings you had
what kind of pizza sauce do you use?
I like the Rao's pizza sauce or the one from Trader Joes
What kind of pizza peel do you use?
This pizza is now on this weeks menu! Thank you.
I have like a $20 one from amazon! it's so old I don't know the brand
We had the most amazing burrata pizza in Italy a few weeks ago. It was a plain Margarita, about 14 inches, with a whole burrata on top. It was in a town just outside Turin and the friend who took us there said he goes to the restaurant regularly just for the Burratina! Burrata is a wonderful thing.
Does this recipe make one pizza, or two like some of your others?
2!!
LOOK DELICIOUS
I could just cry this looks so good! Love the video!
OMG yum! Burrata + prosciutto is everything!
That gorgeous cheese <3
This is my pizza dream. Gimme all the burrata!