Pizza Recipes

Welcome to my selection of pizza recipes. Traditional Italian pizza toppings are very simple. One, two or three ingredients like basil, olives, chilli, fresh mozzarella are all that is needed to make an amazing pizza, if the ingredients are good quality. Of course the beauty of homemade pizza is that our recipes don’t have to be restricted by tradition – we are free to use any and every ingredient we want! It is still worth taking note of the traditional pizza philosophy though. The more ingredients you use, the less you will notice any one of them. If you want to showcase a certain topping on your pizza choose what will go with it carefully and think about why you are adding each other topping. Aim to have flavours that complement each other. For instance if pumpkin and roast mushroom are a classic pairing on a pizza – both are quite sweet but where the pumpkin is mild and creamy, the mushroom can have more pronounced tangy flavour. Add a neutral ingredient like chicken or fresh mozzarella and you’ll be in pizza heaven!

There’s no need to be shy when designing your own pizza recipes, and plenty of inspiration can be found online. For example this thread about flavour combinations has some great ideas. You might also want to check out The Flavor Bible at Amazon for ideas. I have made some weird experimental pizza recipes in my time, some of them will never be repeated but it was fun trying them out. Dessert pizza recipes in particular are great fun to come up with. You don’t see many dessert pizzas around but they can be delicious whether a slightly healthier version with fruit, honey and cream or a decadent marshmallow, peanut and chocolate 'rocky road' pizza.

On to the recipes...

Bacon and Egg Breakfast Pizza

A bacon and egg pizza has been on my mind for a while now, so with a cool sunny morning on the weekend

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Leek, Tomato and Mushroom with Stracchino

I cooked a bit of an unusual pizza recently on a whim, and it turned out pretty well! I was inspired by a new

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Fig, Walnut & Mascarpone Pizza with Pear

This pizza recipe is a bit of a different combination. You wouldn’t quite call it a dessert pizza, but is quite light and sweet

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Bacon and egg pizza

This pizza, as you might expect, is great if you have any leftovers for breakfast. The problem is trying not to finish the whole

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Onion, rosemary & blue cheese

The strength of this pizza is it’s simplicity and the combination of a small amount of powerful ingredients. The subtle sweetness and texture of

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Zucchini, mushroom & smoked cheese

This is a simple veggie pizza that packs a flavour punch. The earthy mushrooms work nicely with the sweet zucchini, and the smoky cheese

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