Delicious Apricot Pizza in Your Oven
If you’re looking for a delicious recipe that blends sweet and savory flavors together for your family, a dinner party, or a backyard celebration, then you’ve come to the right place! This tasty wood-fired recipe combines eclectic taste notes from basil, apricot, chicken, and goat cheese for a winning combination that will leave your guests impressed and your neighbors jealous.
Read on to find out why this unlikely pairing tastes so good, and for instructions on creating this unique dish in your own wood burning oven!
Matches made in heaven
To boot, let’s go over the unlikely marriage of sweet and savory flavors. Much like other common pairings, including sweet and sour or sweet and salty, the reason a sweet/savory combination is such a delight to our taste buds is because of palate balance. Sweet flavors are especially powerful on the tongue, as noted by MyRecipes, and quickly leads to what’s called “palate fatigue”. A common example is how the first bite of cake always tastes much sweeter than the twentieth.
Savory flavors are more difficult to exhaust, and in combination with sweetness, creates a blend of flavors on the tongue that complements and give new life to each other. Done properly, pairings of sweet and savory flavors highlight every ingredient in the dish instead of burying one in the flavors of another. This is particularly important in this dish, because…
The power is in the pesto
Our apricot pizza uses the classical Italian spread pesto, a dish with characteristic distinction among all of its flavors. The ingredients of pesto (basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and garlic) are all contributors to an overall flavor but are distinct by themselves. Every area of taste is covered in pesto but sweetness, which is the perfect opening for fruit like apricot to make its introductions.
Combining all of these distinct flavors means the creation of a dish that stimulates every part of the tongue, but doesn’t overwhelm it; the end result is a pizza so delicious you’ll be less worried about culinary science and more worried about eating another slice!
Cooking apricot pizza in your oven
Once you’ve gathered the diverse ensemble of pizza toppings and fired up the oven, follow this super-simple recipe for a pizza that you won’t forget about for a long time! Once you’re finished, let us know how it turned out in the comments!
Ingredients
- 1 12” pizza shell (see our recipe here)
- 3 Tbsp basil pesto
- 2 apricots, thinly sliced
- 4 oz goat cheese, crumbled
- ½ cup chicken breasts, cooked and cubed
- salt and pepper
Directions
- Preheat your pizza oven to 750 degrees.
- Coat dough base with basil pesto. Scatter sliced apricots on top, then cover with chicken and goat cheese. Season with salt and pepper.
- Place into wood fired oven and cook until crust is golden brown and goat cheese is properly melted – about 1-2 minutes. Enjoy!
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