The end of summer is perfect plum season. Thinly sliced plums paired with fatty and salty prosciutto make an amazing pizza topping team. Plum , prosciutto, and mozzarella pizza is an easy way to dress up pizza night.
This past weekend we ate pizza on Thursday night, Friday night, and Sunday night. It’s safe to assume we looove pizza in this house. It is also important to note, we did take a break from pizza for some vegetables and what not on Saturday. Balance, right?
September is the perfect time to eat all the plums before they are gone. Savor the last bites of summer. I saw Joy the Baker made a roasted plum crepe cake. It got me craving this old school gluten free plum tart from my early days of blogging. Maybe even wash the tart down with a little white wine plum sangria, eh?
Too much plum? No way!
Baked or roasted plums got me thinking that the sweetness would be perfect on top of a crispy pizza crust. Plum, prosciutto, and mozzarella pizza is like your favorite summertime charcuterie board, just on a pizza crust.
The crust gets a light drizzle of olive oil and a rub down with garlic. Keep it simple because the sweet plums and salty prosciutto bring so much flavor to this pizza already. All you need to finish it off is a teensy drizzle of balsamic syrup and fresh basil. This pizza is so pretty and will make people think that you worked hard, when really you just let the plums, prosciutto, and mozzarella do their thing.
I highly recommend using either a prepared pizza dough or my favorite rectangle pizza crust from the bread section of Trader Joe’s. If you’re feeling ambitious, my homemade yeast pizza dough is totally worth the effort.
When you have fancy toppings like these, you can see how we end up eating pizza for three days in a row!
Plum, Prosciutto, and Mozzarella Pizza
Thinly sliced plums, prosciutto, and mozzarella thin crust pizza.
Ingredients
- 1, 7 oz pizza crust
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, peeled and sliced in half
- 1 plum, pitted
- 1, 4 oz ball of fresh mozzarella cheese
- 3 oz prosciutto
- fresh basil
- crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 tbsp balsamic glaze
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 500 degrees F with a pizza stone or a large baking sheet inside the oven. Allow the oven to stay at temperature for 10 minutes while you prepare the pizza and ingredients.
- Once the oven has been hot for at least 10 minutes, rub the top of the pizza crust down with olive oil. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
- While the pizza crust par-bakes, cut the mozzarella and place on top of a few paper towels or a clean dish towel. Press down the sliced mozzarella to remove the liquid before adding to the pizza.
- Use a mandolin on the medium setting to slice the pitted plum halves.
- Remove the crust from the oven. Rub the pizza crust with the cut side of the garlic clove.
- Top pizza with the sliced fresh mozzarella, prosciutto, and slices of plum. Transfer the topped pizza to the pan/baking stone. Bake the pizza for 10 minutes.
- Carefully remove the pizza from the oven. Allow the pizza to cool for a few minutes before slicing. Top with fresh basil and balsamic glaze.
