Throwback Thursday, Pizza Caprese
Have you ever heard of the holy trinity in cooking?
The three ingredients vary depending on where you live ~
In Cajun country, or Louisiana,
the holy trinity ingredients are onions, celery, and bell peppers
In other parts of the country they are often
onion, celery, and carrots
In Italy they are tomatoes, basil and garlic
What ever the ingredients are,
the concept is the same,
it is basically an intense flavor base
My personal holy trinity is
caramelized onions, roasted garlic, and parmesan cheese
Anything tastes good with this!
This is the base for my Pizza Caprese
If you don’t have time to caramelize onions in a skillet,
just peel and slice the onion,
drizzle it with olive oil and salt and pepper,
wrap in foil and bake at 400 for an hour
Basically the same technique that you use for roasting garlic
You can do this a day or two before
and keep the roasted onion and garlic in the refrigerator
until you need them
Slice the tomatoes and cheese and cut the basil into chiffonade
by rolling the leaves up tightly
and then cutting horizontally into thin strips
Partially bake the pizza dough just until it starts to brown
Brush the crust with a little olive oil
Sprinkle with kosher salt,
I used Hawaiian Sea Salt~ that’s the pink flecks
Squeeze roasted garlic from bulb
and spread over crust with the back of a spoon
Top with roasted or caramelized onions
Top with shredded Parmesan cheese
Next add the mozzarella
Add the tomatoes and return to oven and bake
until crust is golden and cheese is melted
Garnish hot pizza with the basil chiffonade
Cut into squares to serve,
large squares for main dish or small squares for appetizers
PIZZA CAPRESE
Ingredients
- 1 ball of fresh pizza dough* or prepared pizza crust
- 1 large onion
- 1 head garlic
- 1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 3 ounces of fresh mozzarella
- 12 cherry tomatoes halved
- 6 leaves fresh basil
- olive oil
- Kosher salt
Instructions
- Roast garlic in a foil packet, drizzled with olive oil, at 400 for 1 hour. Peel and slice onion and cook the same way or caramelize the slices in a skillet. Cut basil leaves into chiffonade.
- Prepare pizza dough and bake according to package directions until it just starts to brown, about 1/2-3/4 of cooking time.
- Remove from oven and brush with olive oil and sprinkle with Kosher salt.
- Squeeze garlic onto crust and spread with the back of a spoon.
- Top with caramelized onions.
- Top with 3/4 cup Parmesan, reserving the rest for topping later.
- Top with sliced mozzarella and tomatoes.
- Return to oven and continue baking until cheese has melted and crust is done.
- Remove and top immediately with reserved Parmesan and basil.
- Cut into large squares for main dish or small squares for appetizers
Notes
Enjoy!
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Love your personal holy trinity, Jenna! Your pizza looks delicious! Happy Thursday ♥
Thank you Mary, have a great weekend!
I love caprese…a great idea to use them to top the pizza.
Thanks Angie!
This looks delicious and perfect for this time of the year. Thanks for the tip on the onions.
Thank you Bernadette, roasting onions this way is a great shortcut~
Jenna, your pizza looks delicious. It would be great for tonight’s dinner. Happy Thursday!! ☔️
Thank you Pam 🙂
I bet the roasted garlic is the little extra here that makes this beyond delicious!
Yes, the roasted garlic really adds great flavor!
Made my mouth water!! And so colorful, too!
Thanks Patti!
MMMmm this looks so good. Roasted garlic is something I never smelled in my mother’s kitchen, but we love it in our house! – maybe it’s the Italian husband’s influence!
Roasted garlic adds so much good flavor!
I bet it melts in your mouth. Such a delicious treat to enjoy a preset pizza. Paul love pizza period.
Thank you Linda, we love pizza and flatbreads, endless possibilities!
Jenna I love the roasted onion and garlic. I have actually served roasted onions as a side dish and my family loves it. Actually I am a onion lover, raw or cooked. I need raw onion on baloney sandwiches, hamburgers, hotdogs and fried potatoes….and yes, with pancakes. When we are ordering breakfast, servers give me that ‘look’ when I ask for a side of sliced raw onion and a few dill pickle slices. I make a sort of sandwich using the pancakes as bread and put eggs, sausage or bacon, onion and pickle in between and cut it all up and eat it. It is so good.
I am adding your pizza to my recipe file.
Wow Kari, you do love onions!!!
I think this would make a delicious, fancy snack.
Thanks Linda, it does make great appetizers cut into small squares
I love love love caprese…a great idea to use them to top the pizza.
Thanks Deb!
Thank you for this, Jenna, I am inundated with cherry tomatoes this year, and am looking for different ways in which to use them. Have a great weekend!
Thanks Pattie, I hope you enjoy it!
I love pizza and your caprese version sounds heavenly, Jenna. I made a caprese salmon the other day and it was so good, too.
Thank you Kitty, so easy and so good 🙂
Yum – this looks delicious Jenna! Thanks for the tip about roasting the garlic and onions and anything with cherry tomatoes, parmesan, caprese, and fresh basil has got to be tasty! I am pinning and can’t wait to try this. Thanks!
Thanks Kim, enjoy!