Summer Peach Pizza With Basil

Celebrate the freshly picked flavors of summer with this delicious veggie pizza – a perfect plant-based appetizer or main dish. Here’s how to make my peach pizza with basil.

 

I’ve been looking for an excuse to get back into making homemade pizza dough for the past few months, and one day, it arrived in the form of a beautiful new pizza stone, gifted to me by the makers of my current favorite bakeware, Emile Henry. Not that it’s hard to make your own pizza dough, and not that it’s not worth it, but when it comes to pizza, we’ve kind of gotten into “stick with the basics” mode, and we always just do either takeout or frozen pizza. Of course, we’re right in the middle of peach season right now, and we live in a beautiful peach-growing region, so something seasonal and fun seemed like an obvious choice for pizza toppings. This peach pizza recipe with basil is the best pizza to make if you want something a little different from a traditional pizza and a little more fancy. This recipe is so savory and unexpected, and it might just become your new favorite pizza!

Ingredients Needed for the Vegetarian Peach Basil Pizza Recipe

You’ll need:

• Fresh peaches
• Your favorite homemade pizza dough recipe (white or whole-wheat)
• Fresh basil leaves
• Pizza sauce, marinara, or fresh tomato sauce
• Mozzarella cheese or grated parmesan (I used a light sprinkling of plant-based mozzarella)
• Balsamic glaze

Although I decided to make my own pizza dough, I decided not to go overboard and spend five hours making this pizza, so I just used store-bought pizza sauce and a balsamic glaze that my neighbor always uses on all kinds of impressive snacks that she serves us. If you’re just curious about the peach-basil combination and want to make the whole thing even easier without having to fuss with active dry yeast, feel free to use your favorite store-bought thin-crust pizza crust as well. 🙂

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Assembling the Peach Basil Pizza

This is an extra simple pizza to put together. Start out by rolling out your dough with a rolling-pin and spreading the sauce with the back of a tablespoon. Regular pizza sauce works really well with this recipe, but if you want to get even more creative, you can substitute your favorite BBQ sauce, or garlic-infused olive oil works well, too. Peaches just get along so well with so many other flavors.

Next, sprinkle your cheese evenly over the whole pizza.

Finally, layer on your sliced peaches.

Note: I prefer to keep my basil fresh and bright green, so I add it on after baking the pizza, but you can add your basil on here as well if you like it a little charred and wilted. Both are great. You can’t go wrong.

I would also recommend with this recipe that you increase the amount of salt that you use in your pizza dough compared to what you would normally use. Because the ingredients in this pizza all tend to be a bit on the sweet side, the extra salt really helps to balance things out.

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After the pizza has been baked until the crust is golden brown, generously sprinkle basil ribbons over the whole thing and drizzle with the balsamic glaze. It will look like a masterpiece, guaranteed.

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Peach Pizza Variations to Try

There are so many ways to get creative with this vegetable pizza recipe. If you’d like to cut it into small slices to serve as appetizers, you can let inspiration lead the way and use some really interesting ingredients for your toppings.

To make this pizza a bit heartier, try adding chopped, tangy, sun-dried tomatoes, prosciutto, and crumbled spicy sausage (or plant-based sausage if you prefer).

Grilled zucchini or summer squash slices, a sprinkling of feta, wilted spinach, and crushed red pepper flakes would allow you to incorporate even more summer flavors into this dish.

If you’re having a cookout or barbecue, this peach pizza also makes a wonderful grilled pizza when you’d like to try something different from the usual pizza stone or parchment-paper lined baking sheet. Finish your pizza with a twist of freshly ground black pepper and a light drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

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Here’s the full printable recipe!

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