Sometimes you've just gotta throw caution to the wind and have a Burrata Pizza Pie for dinner. Or lunch. Or better yet... breakfast!
It's a treat yourself kinda day today, don't you think. It felt like a long week. Can someone throw a three day weekend my way please? I'd be ever so grateful. For some reason this week was nutty. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that I attempted a juice cleanse for 4.54345 hours and then decided that I was being majorly HANGRY and taking it out of my family and needed to cool it immediately and eat a pizza. Yup, I think that was it. If there's ever any doubt about anything in life, pizza is generally the answer. Especially when it's piled high with burrata cheese and fried basil. I mean, come on!! It's pure perfection and there's no ifs ands or buts about it.
If I had to pick one food to eat for an entire day, it would probably be burrata. Just leave me alone with it and a spoon and I'd be content. But, we're going big today. It's almost the weekend and pizza is deserved. Remember that homemade pizza dough I made a few weeks ago... grab some of that (or some from the store, I won't judge) and let's go to work. Burrata. Prosciutto. Basil. Pizza Sauce. Red Pepper Flakes. That's it. Done.
Burrata Pizza Pie
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Homemade Pizza Dough
- ½ cup pizza sauce
- 8 ounces burrata cheese
- 1 3- ounce package 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 pizza sauce 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 ten minutes.
- After ten minutes, pull out the pizza and sprinkle the creamy burrata on top of the pie.
- Put your pizza back in the oven for another 3-4 minutes.
- When the cheese is just starting to melt, take it out and top with prosciutto and the fried basil, salt, and red pepper flakes. Cut into 6-8 slices and serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition Information
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!