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
What is Burrata?
Burrata is a type of Italian cheese made from mozzarella and cream. It has a soft and creamy interior with a firm outer shell.
Do you put burrata on pizza before or after baking?
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.
What's the difference between Fior di Latte and burrata?
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.
How to fry basil?
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.
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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!