This warm prosciutto and fig pizza is a 15-minute dinner for one that’s best when drizzled with balsamic glaze or maple syrup. Make with a premade crust or naan for the perfect late summer/early fall appetizer or dinner.
[This prosciutto and fig pizza recipe was originally posted in September 2019. It has been updated with new tips, FAQ, related recipes, and ways to repurpose/use up ingredients]
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Pizzas are a great dinner to use up leftover ingredients in the fridge. Plus it’s pizza! Enjoy delicious, fresh fall figs in this easy prosciutto fig pizza. It makes a great dinner for someone who feels special, with limited effort.
Start the Prosciutto Fig Pizza with store-bought single-serving homemade pizza dough, OR naan bread, then it will only take 15-20 minutes. This Prosciutto Fig Pizza is a quick and easy pizza dinner, which is always a good idea.
Enjoy this pizza on its own, share as an appetizer, or add a side to it. Side options are listed below the recipe instructions.
Components
Scroll down on the Prosciutto Fig Pizza recipe card for the amounts of each ingredient, but here’s a quick visual + description of what’s in this recipe.
- Pizza Dough/Platobread: Use what you have. With at least 40 minutes (mostly resting time), you can make your own single-serving pizza dough.
- Fresh figs: While figs are very tasty on this pizza, you can also use apple slices or pear slices if it’s not fig season or you just don’t want them
- Prosciutto
- Goat Cheese: You can substitute traditional mozzarella, but creamy goat cheese is so good with figs.
- Green Bell Pepper: Use any type of pepper, but I like this less sweet pepper to pair with the figs and slightly sweet goat cheese.
- Optional “Sauces”: Maple syrup, balsamic glaze and honey all make a great drizzle after the pizza is baked. Since this pizza has no sauce, I recommend one of these to finish off the pizza.
Storage/Reheating Tips
Store leftover prosciutto fig pizza in an airtight container in the refrigerator for about a week. Reheat in microwave or broiler.
I would not recommend freezing this pizza as the figs would get very moldy.
Substitutions/Tips
- Use pita, naan or pre-cooked pizza crust to save time. You can also buy pizza dough or make your own. Here is my favorite recipe for homemade pizza dough.
- We divide the cheese first, the order of the rest of the ingredients is not so important.
- Use either black or green figs, depending on availability and price. You can also replace the fresh figs with fig jam.
- Use any color of pepper for this recipe.
- If you have a grill, cook your pizza directly on the grill. It’s so close to pizza oven pizza without the pizza oven! You can also use a pizza stone for a crispy crust.
- Other great extras: fresh mozzarella, black or red pepper flakes, other seasonal toppings like zucchini, corn, fresh rocket, etc. they are good on a prosciutto and fig pizza.
FAQ
I recommend using goat cheese in this prosciutto fig pizza recipe. You can also use mozzarella cheese on it.
Prosciutto is great on pizza, it gives you a nice crunch and saltiness. It’s faster than using bacon, it doesn’t need to be pre-cooked to add to the pizza. Look at the other pizza recipes in the section above, some have prosciutto.
Figs have a short season, generally from August to October in the United States. They are hard to find in the off season. So buy them when you see them!
What can I make with the leftover ingredients?
Did you make this prosciutto and fig pizza? Leave me a comment and rating to share how it went!
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Pizza with fig and prosciutto
This warm fig and prosciutto pizza is topped with either balsamic glaze or maple syrup. It makes the perfect late summer/early fall appetizer or light meal.
Equipment
knife
cutting board
spoon
oven pan
Pizza cutter
Components
- 1 Small pizza crust or naan bread
- 1-2 small black figs thinly sliced
- 1 slice prosciutto sliced
- ⅛ cup green pepper thinly sliced
- ½-1 ounce goat cheese
- pure maple syrup THE
- balsamic glaze
- kosher salt
Instructions
Turn on the oven to bake. Pour about 2 tsp olive oil over the crust. Spread it all over crust with the back of a spoon.
Crumble, then divide evenly ½-1 oz goat cheese over the crust. Then drop 2 into slices figsa slice prosciuttoand ⅛ cup chopped green peppers.
Bake in the oven until the prosciutto and the crust are golden brown. About 5-8 minutes.
Cut the pizzas, sprinkle maple syrup the balsamic glaze on top of the pizza, sprinkle with kosher saltand enjoy.
Notes
- Use pita, naan or pre-cooked pizza crust to save time. You can also buy pizza dough or make your own.
- Recipe for a homemade pizza dough
- Distribute cheese first, the order of the remaining ingredients doesn’t matter that much.
- Use either black or green figs, subject to availability and price. Use any color of pepper for this recipe.
- Top with arugula for added crunch
