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When you combine a good homemade pizza dough with a handful fresh and flavorful pizza toppings, pizza night is on! The key is using flavor-packed, fast cooking ingredients that have a tendency to melt (or cook) quickly for your toppings. Second thing? Don’t go overboard, thoughtfully curate each pizza so the flavors of each ingredient have room to speak.
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<\/span>In this post you\u2019ll find a range of favorite pizza topping ideas. They\u2019re organized into sauces, cheese, vegetable toppings, finishing flavors, and a long list of favorite pizza topping combinations from years of pizza making. Enjoy! And I highly recommend keeping a pizza journal to keep track of all your favorite topping combinations!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Cheeses<\/span><\/h2>\n

Along with your sauce, cheese is often a defining pizza topping. Correspondingly, it\u2019s important to get right. I avoid pre-shredded cheeses. They can have anti-caking agents and mold-inhibitors. Generally speaking, you want your cheese to be\u2026cheese. My favorites? I love to tear up balls of fresh mozzarella into shreds, use dollops of ricotta, and grate fresh Parmesan or pecorino for the best results. On occasion, spoonfuls of Greek yogurt scooped around the tops of a pizza sets up beautifully as well (pictured above). Crumbled feta adds a nice salty accent, and gruyere cheese grated by hand delivers that oozy, melty cheese vibe with lots of flavor.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Foundation: Good Pizza Sauce<\/span><\/h2>\n

Aside from a good, reliable pizza dough, your sauce choice is another foundation you want to get right before moving on to the wide world of pizza toppings.<\/p>\n

Tomato Sauce:<\/em> This is a favorite simple tomato sauce<\/span><\/a>, and it\u2019s great on many red sauce pizzas. My one pro-tip is to make it ahead of time, it\u2019s fine for up to a week refrigerated. When you go to assemble your pizza, be sure the sauce is room temperature or cooler. Make sure it\u2019s not hot. If the sauce is still warm when you’re topping your pizza, the dough is more likely to stick.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pesto<\/em>: Pesto pizzas are a favorite, and this pesto<\/a> is my go-to. <\/span>Made with hand-chopped basil, garlic, Parmesan, olive oil and pine nuts, it\u2019s the real deal. It\u2019s a pesto recipe taught to me by my friend Francesca’s mother who came to visit from Genoa, Italy.\u00a0It\u2019s what you want as the foundation for your pesto pizza.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mushroom R<\/span>ag\u00f9<\/em>: Use this mushroom rag\u00f9<\/a> to double down on your favorite mushroom pizza combination. A pizza made with this sauce topped with pre-roasted sliced mushrooms, dollops of ricotta cheese, a sprinkling of rosemary, and finishing drizzle of chile oil is A-plus.
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Vegetable Pizza Toppings<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are so many ways to get creative about vegetable pizzas. Sometimes I’ll pre-cook vegetables, for example artichokes, other times they’ll go on a pizza raw. Some ideas.<\/p>\n

Fresh corn, thin asparagus, roasted cherry tomatoes, peas, baked mushrooms,<\/a> caramelized onions, olives, fava beans, citrus zests, grilled or pan-blistered artichokes<\/a>, saut\u00e9ed thinly sliced potatoes, broccoli florets, cauliflower florets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pictured above: A grilled pizza<\/a> with mozzarella, fresh corn, quick pickled serrano chiles, and pine nuts. Finished with chive flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finishing Flavor<\/span><\/h2>\n

This is where you can take your pizza topping ideas from really good to great. The final accent drizzles and sprinkles are the punctuation marks on your pizza. <\/span> Finishing touches I love and use all the time:<\/span> lemon olive oil, tangerine olive oil, makrut lime oil, chives and chive flowers, and hot honey. Other favorites include:<\/span><\/p>\n