Pear and Caramelised Leek Pizza
This pizza is Pear, Caramelised Leek with a philly cheese garlic sauce, drizzled with rice malt syrup and garnished with fresh parsley. Delish!
Ingredients
Pizza base
- Use whichever pizza base recipe you prefer. I use the recipe from Cookidoo. There are links for recipes, including GF ones in the post above.
- 1 tbsp Rice bran oil
- 1 - 2 tsp minced garlic
Caramelised Leek
- 1 1 leek, chopped into 3 cm chunks
- 1 large clove garlic
- 30 g rice bran oil
- 50 g brown sugar
Philly Cheese Sauce
- 3 large cloves garlic
- 30 g butter
- 150 g philly cheese
- 60 g cream
Other Toppings
- 1 ripe pear, peeled and sliced thinly
- Parsley to garnish
- Rice malt syrup
Instructions
Pizza Base
- Make, prepare and rise your pizza base. Divide into 2 - 4 portions depending upon how big you want your pizzas. You can make family sized and everyone gets a piece or two. Or everyone can have their own mini pizza.
- Make the caramelised leek and philly cheese sauce while dough is rising.
- Pre heat oven to 200°
- Roll out portions of pizza base into rounds 5mm thick approx. (I roll my bases on baking paper to make it easier to transport between bench to trays to oven).
- Pour oil and garlic onto base. Spread around the whole base with the back of a spoon to get an even coverage. (You may need to adjust amounts depending upon the size of your base and how much garlic you like.
Caramelised Leek
- Place chopped leek into the Thermomix bowl with the garlic. Chop on speed 5 for 3 sec.
- Add oil and brown sugar. Cook at 100° for 12 mins on reverse speed 1, with the steaming basket on top of the lid.
- To make the caramelised leeks without a Thermomix, thinly slice leeks and cook in a frying pan over medium heat, stirring until cooked through and leeks begin to caramelise.
Philly Cheese Sauce
- Chop garlic for 5 seconds on speed 7.
- Add butter. Melt for 2 minutes on 50° speed 1.
- Add philly cheese and cream.
- Mix to combine for 10 seconds on speed 7.
- If making the cheese sauce before hand, keep in the fridge. It will set hard, you can just spoon it on in blobs or just before using it, place in the microwave for 20 seconds to soften it a little.
To Assemble
- After putting the oil and garlic on the base, spread a generous amount of the caramelised leeks on top.
- Place the sliced pear on the leek
- Top with dollops of the Philly cheese sauce. Sprinkle with a little parsley
- Place onto baking tray. Bake in hot oven for 15 - 20 minutes or until base is lightly browned and cooked through.
- Drizzle with rice malt syrup and a sprinkle of fresh parsley to serve.
Notes
We invested in pizza stones since we don't have a pizza oven 'yet'. I love how it cooks the base evenly and crisps up, even when making deep pan pizzas. The trick is to remember to place them in the oven before you turn it on!