If you follow my blog, you know that pizza is one of my all-time favorite foods. I could eat it every day and never get tired of it This pizza was inspired by our recent trip to Vegas. I saw this on the menu at one of the places we ate lunch and made a note to whip it up when we got home.
OMG – delicious!! I absolutely loved this pizza – especially the creamy ricotta on top. I used my favorite weeknight pizza dough recipe and some frozen meatballs because I was out of homemade meatballs. This is a new favorite!
Meatball and Ricotta Pizza
(Printable Recipe)
1 recipe weeknight pizza dough or store bough pizza crust
pizza sauce
1 1/2 cups mozzarella, shredded
6 oz frozen meatballs, thawed and sliced
1/4 cup ricotta cheese
Place pizza stone in oven and preheat to 475°.
Roll out dough onto a piece of parchment paper (I trace my pizza stone onto parchment before placing it in the oven as a guide). Prick dough with fork and add sauce, mozzarella cheese and meatballs. Drop spoonfuls of ricotta cheese on top of pizza.
Transfer pizza to hot pizza stone. (I use a flat cookie sheet to move the dough to the stone) Bake for 12-15 minutes, until cheese is bubbly.
I have used this recipe severals times since I first saw it posted. We LOVE IT!!! and so do our friends 🙂 Thank you for sharing it.
Clever!
Glad to hear it was a hit!
Worked great! The meatballs were really sweet, and it gave the pizza great flavor…. I still have so many left over meatballs I think I'll make it again tonight!
Kristin – absolutely! Those meatballs will be perfect for this pizza!!
I have a ton of let over meatballs from party this past weekend…do you think I could use them? even though they have sauce already on them??
great idea and delicious looking pizza Steph.
One thing great about pizza is you can create your own flavor. Depends on your taste. This one is making me hungry. =)
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