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Fig, walnut, and feta pizza with a cocktail

Fig Walnut and Feta pizza

Ingredients

For one pizza

  • ¼ of a sourdough recipe or one small portion of pizza dough see note
  • ½ cup fig jam or fig butter. About 5 ounces
  • 1 cup ricotta cheese
  • ¾ cup crumbled Feta cheese
  • ¾ cup walnuts chopped
  • ½ cup grated Parmesan Cheese
  • 1 cup arugula
  • 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

Instructions

  1. Heat your oven to 500° with a baking or pizza stone. Let the stone heat for at least 45 minutes or an hour if you have time. If you don’t have one, you can bake the pizza on a cookie sheet.
  2. Once the oven has heated, stretch pat or roll the pizza dough into a rough 12-14 inch circle. Be careful not to tear any holes in the dough. If you do, pinch together the dough to seal the hole.
  3. I find the I like to shape my pizzas onto a piece of parchment paper. You can use a peel dusted with cornmeal or just flour. Or if you are using a baking sheet, right onto a lightly greased cookie sheet.
  4. If you are using a stone for baking your pizza, turn the oven to broil for 5 minutes as you make the pizza.

  5. Spread the ½ cup of the fig jam or butter evenly over the stretched surface., leaving an inch or so clean around the edge.

  6. Dollop tablespoon-sized spoonfuls of the ricotta cheese evenly over the surface of the fig coated pizza dough.
  7. Sprinkle evenly over the pizza the feta cheese and then the walnuts.
  8. Make sure you turn the oven back to bake.
  9. Using a peel, if using, or slide the pizza with the paper onto the hot stone.
  10. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes checking the pizza after 10 minutes to make sure it doesn’t burn.
  11. When the crust has a beautiful golden or browned bubbly appearance, and the cheese has browned nicely remove the pizza from the oven.
  12. Immediately sprinkle the parmesan cheese over the pizza and top with the arugula.

  13. Drizzle some of the balsamic vinegar over the finished pizza and serve hot.

  14. If making several of these pizzas remember to preheat your stone with the broiler for 5 minutes between pizzas.

Recipe Notes

If you don’t want to make your own pizza dough., You can find fresh dough in many grocery stores, or you can also ask to see if your local pizza place will sell you a portion. I used ¼ of my sourdough bread recipe for each pizza