Get a spring pizza recipe by Leah Scurto, owner and pizzaiola at PizzaLeah in Windsor, California
Edible flowers. Are they bougie and pretentious or beautiful and tasty? It can be a fine line, but I think edible flowers are absolutely delicious – especially a squash blossom. Not only do they give that springtime vibe, they look stunning on a pizza and add a subtly sweet nuttiness that is a great complement to most springtime veggies.
Pizza Recipe:
Spring Blossoms Pizza | Leah's Recipe
Author: Leah Scurto
Recipe type: Pizza
Ingredients
- 11-ounce dough ball stretched to 12 inches
- 4 ounces mozzarella
- 10 grams olive oil
- 4 grams fresh garlic, minced
- 2 ounces zucchini (5 slices cut in half)
- 3 or 4 squash blossoms (depending on size)
- ½ ounce red onion, thinly sliced
- 2 ounces prosciutto
- 1 ounce gremolata (recipe below)
- 2 ounces stracciatella
Instructions
- Stretch out your dough ball to the desired size.
- Add mozzarella, a drizzle of olive oil and minced garlic.
- Run the zucchini through a mandolin lengthwise, so it’s nice and thin.
- Cut zucchini slices in half and fan them out around your pizza.
- Cook pizza in the oven for 2-3 minutes and then pull it out.
- Pull stem and stamen off squash blossoms and spread flowers out wide across the pizza.
- Spread red onion on top of the blossoms to help protect them from direct heat, then finish cooking the pizza.
- Once you’ve pulled the pizza out of the oven for a second time, finish it with small dollops of Stracciatella cheese and prosciutto.
- Finally, sprinkle your gremolata on top of the stracciatella.
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Gremolata Recipe:
Gremolata recipe -- Spring Blossoms Pizza | Leah's Recipe
Author: Leah Scurto
Recipe type: Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 bunch flat-leaf parsley
- 1 large garlic clove, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Champagne vinegar
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Juice from zested lemon
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Mix all gremolata ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
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Leah Scurto is the founder, managing partner and pizzaiola at PizzaLeah in Sonoma County, California.
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