Roasted Garlic and Mushroom Pizza

Submitted by FLKeysJen

"Created for the 15th Ready, Set Cook! contest. For something different, saute some sausage and/or baby spinach along with the mushrooms."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon olive oil or 1 tablespoon butter
• 16 ounces white button mushrooms, fresh sliced
• 2 tablespoons dry sherry
• 1⁄2 tablespoon thyme
• 4 heads roasted garlic, squeezed out of skins
• 1 (4 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1 (5 1/3 ounce) package goat cheese
• 10 ounces prepared pizza crust

directions

1. It is easiest to roast the garlic immediately before making this recipe. If you preroasted it, turn on your oven and preheat to 400°F.
2. Heat the oil or butter in a large skillet. Add the mushrooms, sherry and thyme. Cook, stirring frequently, until mushrooms change color and are softer, but not significantly shrunken. Remove from heat.
3. In a bowl, combine the roasted garlic, cream cheese and goat cheese together (preferably when the garlic is still warm to melt everything together). Resist the temptation to use a food processor; mix by hand to maintain the chunks of roasted garlic. Spread mixture on top of the pizza crust.
4. Evenly distribute the mushrooms on top of the garlic-cheese spread.
5. Bake 15 minutes. Enjoy!

Reviews

[rosslare]

Wow, 2 heads of garlic per head! Good going, very good! It really isn't too much.

 

[Maito]

What a great base for a pizza! We loved the goat cheese. With fat free cream cheese, this was super low fat. I ended up halving the ingredients, as I tried to match up my homemade dough with the prepared crust weight. After the fact I figured out that I shouldn't have halved things. The halved amount of cheese was actually lots for us though, but the amount of mushrooms would have been better as written. Actually, I think any other favorite toppings would also go well with the yummy garlic and cheese base of this pizza. I usually bake my homemade crust at 475 F for 12 minutes, so did that here. This original recipe is super!

 

[Studentchef]

This has got to be the best mushroom pizza ever! I think the goat cheese helped out alot too. I was never a fan of goat cheese, but the combination of goat cheese and mushrooms worked out beautifully. Will make this again!

 

[Iceland]

I had my doubts about this pizza as we are used to a tomato based sauce on it. But, wow, this was delicious. It is one of my winners in the contest and i wish you good luck!

 

[twissis]

You could definitely teach pizza outlets in Iceland a thing or 2 about how to make a good pizza! Other than subbing shredded mozzarella for the goat cheese I could not find, the recipe was made as written. I had pre-roasted a massive amt of garlic (a pers fave), so began w/prep Step 2. As a matter of pers pref, DH prefers meat & veggie crunch on a pizza .. so I opted to use sausage as your intro allowed + green pepper as DH does not care for spinach. From a 2nd effort, I can tell you this recipe also works very well on both flour tortillas & split pita bread rounds for more individual portions. Made for RSC #15 ~ Thx for sharing this excellent, easy-fix recipe w/us & good luck in the contest. It could be you!