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Pear and Gorgonzola Pizza with Arugula and Ranch Dressing
This Pear and Gorgonzola Pizza with Arugula and Ranch Dressing is a unique pizza with a surprisingly delicious combination of flavors.
Ingredients
1 20-ounce ball of pizza dough, room temperature (store bought or homemade)
3 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh garlic, minced (about 2-3 cloves)
4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup whole milk
1 cup half and half
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon white pepper
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
Few grinds fresh nutmeg
1 Bosc pear, unpeeled and cut into thin large slices (discarding core)
1/2 cup Gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
A few very thin slices of red onion
2 cups fresh arugula
3-4 tablespoons ranch dressing
Flour for counter
Corn meal for pizza peel
Instructions
- Place a pizza stone in the bottom of your oven and heat the oven to as high as it will go.
- In a small sauce pan, melt butter over medium heat and add garlic.
- Cook for 2-3 minutes or just until the garlic starts to brown and add flour.
- Stir and cook for three minutes and add milk and stir with a wire whip.
- The mixture will be thick.
- Add half and half and stir again to a smooth consistency.
- Add salt, pepper, dry mustard and nutmeg and stir one last time. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Flour your counter and cut the dough balls in half to form two balls.
- Flatten each to about 12-14 inches round.
- Sprinkle corn meal on the pizza peel and place one pizza dough over the corn meal.
- Use a small ladle and cover the top with the cream sauce, going to about a half inch from the edge. Be generous on the sauce but save at least half for the second pizza.
- Place the sliced pears around the pizza. (We put six large slices on each pizza so when cooked and sliced, each slice will have one pear slice).
- Sprinkle half the thin sliced onion over the pears.
- Crumble half the Gorgonzola over the pizza and slide onto the stone.
- Depending on your oven, the pizza should be ready between 5-7 minutes.
- Remove to a cutting board and cut into six slices then top with half the arugula and drizzle ranch dressing over the top.
- Repeat for the second pizza.
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