'Gettin' Figgy With It' Fig Pizza

My recent bounty of fresh figs is serving up some delicious treats in our kitchen.  First, marinated fig salad, and now ... fig pizza!  This pizza was so good, Mark created three new words to describe it.

Yup, he described this pizza as figtitious, figilicious, and figtastic.  That's pretty high praise ... I think.  But let's turn to Mark's definitions to make sure.

Figtitious - So good it can't be real.  (Like 'fictitious' ... get it?)

Figilicious - Figs that are super delicious.

Figtastic - Fantastic figs.

I'd say yes, that's high praise.  Wouldn't you?

And apparently Mark is in a creative mood ... 'cause he just said the title of this post needed to be 'Gettin' Figgy With It.'  Okay.  I'm good with going with his creative juices tonight.

To get started on this figtitious, figilicious, figtastic fig pizza, gather up some gorgeous fresh figs and slice them in half.



Then slice a red onion into rings, season the rings with salt and pepper, ...

... and saute them up in a little olive oil.

Then gather up some fresh rosemary.

Top pizza dough with a simple drizzling of olive oil, then arrange the onions and figs on top, and sprinkle with a bit of fresh rosemary.

Finally, top with some little chunks of cheese.  Mark and I decided to test two types of cheese - fresh mozzarella and goat cheese.  So, half our pizza was topped with crumbles of goat cheese, and half had fresh mozzarella chunks.

Taste test results?  Both were great!  I liked goat cheese a little better, and Mark liked fresh mozzarella best.

Bake it up, serve yourself a big ol' piece, and enjoy the beautiful figliciousness.   

Fig Pizza

Source:  Inspired by Southern Living's Figgy Focaccia, August 2012

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients
Pizza dough (homemade* or store-bought dough ball)

1 medium red onion, sliced in rings

Salt & pepper

Extra virgin olive oil

16 or so fresh figs, halved

About 1 T. fresh rosemary leaves

8 oz. goat cheese, crumbled or fresh mozzarella, sliced

Directions
1.  Sprinkle onion rings with a little salt and pepper.  Heat about a tablespoon of olive oil in a saute pan; saute onions until tender, about 3 to 4 minutes per side.

2.  Roll pizza dough out to desired size; place on preheated pizza stone or baking sheet.

3.  Spread a thin layer of olive oil over the pizza dough.  Arrange onions and figs on top of the crust, sprinkle with rosemary, and then top with cheese.

4.   Bake at 425 degrees for about 15-20 minutes, or until crust is cooked through and cheese is just beginning to brown.

* See my homemade whole wheat pizza dough recipe, if you'd like.

Enjoy!



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