Fig Pizza
Put a fig on it, and goat cheese, caramelized onions, bacon, and arugula to make a delicious pizza that's lightened up for summer, aka fig season!
Servings: 6 slices
Equipment
- Pizza stone
Ingredients
- 1 pizza dough of choice
- 1 tablespoon cornmeal optional
- 1 medium onion thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil divided
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 4-6 slices bacon
- 6 ounces goat cheese crumbles
- 10-20 figs divided
- arugula microgreens or regular wild arugula
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Prepare your pizza crust and roll it out on a pizza stone that's been dusted with cornmeal.
- Cut the onion into thin slices from top to bottom, to create thin crescent shapes.
- Heat a large frying pan with 1 tablespoon of olive oil to medium heat.
- Add the onions and salt, and begin turning every 5 minutes until caramelized. This should take between 15-20 minutes. Do not let the onions burn, turn down the heat as necessary.
- Prepare your bacon. I like to bake mine on a baking pan with a rack by putting the slices in a cold oven and turning to 425 F. Set a timer for 25 minutes and bake. Or you can pan fry, but don't let it get cooked all of the way through since it will be baking in the oven later.
- Once the onions and bacon and cool enough to handle, spread the onions on the pizza crust.
- Then use scissors to cut the bacon into smaller pieces and scatter it across the crust.
- Slice your figs in halves or rounds and put half of them on the pizza. Set the rest aside.
- Finally, top the pizza with the goat cheese and bake in the oven for 25 minutes.
- Once removed from the oven, add the remaining fresh fig slices and arugula. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve hot.