With tomato sauce and torn fresh mozzarella, the toppings are simple on this squash blossom pizza to let the flowers be the star of the pie.
I finally did it. After years of admiring squash blossoms at the farmers market, I bought a bunch.
I don’t know what took me so long to give those vibrant orange flowers a try.
Maybe it was because I didn’t want to just stuff them with cheese and fry them, which might be the most popular way to eat them.
Sometimes I splurge on fried food when I’m at a restaurant, but the idea of standing over a hot pot of oil on the stove intimidates me.
Instead I used them as a topping on this grilled squash blossom pizza.
It just felt like the right way to pay respect to my big market purchase.
First, I made the dough and let it rise.
During the summer, we eat grilled pizza multiple times a week.
Because of its high temperature, the grill is the best way that I have found to get restaurant-like crust.
In my dream world, I would have a pizza oven in my backyard. For now (and probably forever), I will keep at it with my grill.
Once the dough was ready and the grill was hot, I rolled out the pizza.
Then I grilled it on both sides making sure it was bubbled and charred.
After that I took the crust off the grill and spread on tomato sauce.
After carefully separating the petals of the squash blossoms, I arranged them on the pizza.
I tore fresh mozzarella and scattered that in between the petals.
Finally, I returned the squash blossom pizza to the grill for a couple minutes to let the cheese melt.
Not only did the blossoms look beautiful, but they added a fresh flavor to the grilled pizza.
I will definitely put them on my farmers market shopping list again.
PrintWith tomato sauce and torn fresh mozzarella, the toppings are simple on this squash blossom pizza to let the flowers be the star of the pie.
Beautiful pizza!
Thank you, Marla!!!