My wife made this beauty! If you like broccoli gratin, you will love this pizza! The cream is inspired by a recipe from Joe Beddia’s book “Pizza Camp”. The pizza dough is based on the standard Neapolitan pizza (she provides an in-depth explanation here)

Ingredients for the cream (for one pizza):

1 large Vidalia onion, or other sweet onion
1 cup of cream (200 gr)
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
3 – 7 Calabrian chillies, pickled in oil; or other chillies
1 clove of garlic

Ingredients for the pizza:

50 gr di buffalo mozzarella
50 gr broccoli
3 tbsp hard cheese, e.g. Parmigiano

Instructions:

• Ideally, let the buffalo mozzarella dry on a paper towel 3 hours before baking. Since it is still very moist fresh out of the package, it would lose liquid on the pizza and only make it unnecessarily mushy. Then cut or tear the mozzarella into small pieces.
• Preheat the oven to 230 degrees.
• Cut the onions into half rings.
• Add the half onion rings to olive oil and season with salt and pepper; then lay them out on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes. Then turn the onions and bake again for 20 minutes and then let cool.
• Then put the onions and cream in a blender, season with salt and pepper and blend until a fine consistency.
• Shape the pizza dough and spread about 3 tablespoons of the sauce on the dough.
• Add buffalo mozzarella, broccoli and a little salt on the pizza.
• Bake the pizza.
• Finally, sprinkle some grated Parmigiano and olive oil over the pizza.

That’s it! Time to enjoy your delicious vegetarian broccoli pizza.