Creamy Garlic Cheese Pizza With Fresh Basil

Submitted by Enjolinfam

"My husband's creation. This pizza is a favorite of ours because of my love for garlic and my husbands love for pizza with creamy sauces. My kids love it because they don't like many toppings. I use our recipe for the pizza dough Recipe #252423. Half of this recipe makes 1 12 inch round deep dish pizza crust. I love lots of fresh garlic in my pizza and this is definetely a pizza for big garlic lovers, though it is possible to go too far so be a little cautious when adding the garlic. ;) Prep time doesn't include making pizza dough."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 (12 inch) deep dish pizza dough
• 1⁄2 cup ranch dressing (approximately)
• 3 -4 garlic cloves, large, chopped (depending on how strong you like your garlic. I used 5 cloves once and it was too much for some of u)
• 1⁄8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 1⁄2 cups mozzarella cheese, grated
• 1 - 1 1⁄2 tablespoon fresh basil, thinly sliced

directions

1. Mix garlic, ranch, and cayenne pepper together. Then spread it over the pizza crust leaving about 1 inch border of crust.
2. Cover the pizza with mozzerella cheese. Then sprinkle the fresh basil leaves over the top.
3. Bake at 350 F for approximately 15-25 minutes. Generally it takes about this long but the time can vary depending on the pizza crust being used.

Reviews

[mulan400]

What a wonderful blend of flavours! I used this to top bread slices and served them with tomato soup. Needless to say everyone loved them. The next time I am going to save the time and effort on whipping up the soup and just serve this with something from the can. Two thumbs up!

 

[Mary N.]

This was a great alternative pizza to pizza with tomato sauce. I love garlic and the tang of the ranch was great! I wasn't crazy about the basil flavor, so next time I will just stick to the mushroom, green onion and olive toppings that looked so good in the picture! Thanks for sharing the recipe!

 

[Stephanie Y.]

Pat your husband on the back for this one for me! It made a great dinner using your recipe for the pizza dough. I added some mushrooms, green onions and olives. The garlic really added to the flavor of this pizza... oh, and I used non fat ranch, as a girls gotta save calories somewhere or she will just keep growing! :)

 

[Mandy]

I really enjoyed this as a side to our main pizza, I scaled it down & spread on just plain bread, cut into sticks, the flavours go together really well. Made for ZWT 4.

 

[LUv 2 BaKE]

The photo on this recipe looks so yummy I had to try it. I scaled down the recipe to one serving and baked it in the toaster oven. I used light 3 cheese ranch dressing and part skim mozza. This is a great tasting pizza. The tang of the ranch is great with the garlic and fresh basil. I guess i'm used to pizzas with more toppings so I did add a little chopped fresh spinach as another topping.