In honor of yesterday’s National Pizza Day, I present to you my all-time favorite pizza combination, this Caramelized Onion + Pear + Cambozola Pizza 🍐. This beautifully balanced mix of sweet, savory, and nutty flavors is one you’ll crave every day (my family has certainly become addicted). This is my take on a discontinued CPK pizza that I loved ordering, using cambozola instead. Founded in Germany, cambozola is smooth, creamy, and milder than gorgonzola. If you can find it, it really elevates the pizza and will make your taste buds dance!
Ingredients
- 🍐 pizza dough (homemade recipe coming soon)
- 🍐 flour (for the pan)
- 🍐 1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 🍐 3 tbsp olive oil
- 🍐 3/4 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 🍐 1/2 d’anjou pear
- 🍐 1/4 cup cambozola cheese (sub gorgonzola)
- 🍐 handful hazelnuts, chopped (sub walnuts)
Instructions
- 🍐 handful spring mix or arugula.
- 🍐 1 tbsp ranch dressing.
- Preheat oven to 450F bake.
- Add 2 tbsp olive oil and a sprinkle of flour to a 14” aluminum pizza pan, mix, and spread to coat evenly.
- From your prepared dough, grab a piece with both hands, form a ball, and place it onto the baking sheet to rest for 20 minutes.
- Once rested, stretch the dough and let it rest again for 15 minutes.
- Now that it is fully rested, the dough will be much easier to work with so stretch the dough for the last time until it evenly covers most of the baking sheet.
- While the dough is resting, heat a sauté pan with 1 tbsp olive oil over medium heat and add onions. Let the onions cook for ~30 minutes stirring every few minutes until caramelized. Once done, let cool before adding to the pizza.
- Drizzle additional olive oil across the base of your dough, sprinkle your cheese evenly, add onions.
- Cut your pear into evenly thin slices and arrange on top of the cheese.
- Put it into the oven and let it bake for ~15 minutes. You will know it’s done when the bottom of the crust turns golden.
- Once your pizza is done, top with hazelnuts, cambozola, spring mix, a drizzle of ranch and enjoy!
- Bon appétit, sahtain, صحتين 🌻.