Arugula Microgreen Pizza Finish
Peppery arugula shoots piled on after the oven, never before. Heat destroys the bite you're adding them for.
- Prep
- 8 min
- Cook
- 10 min
- Total
- 18 min
- Serves
- 2
- Finish with
- Arugula
The single most common mistake with greens on pizza is baking them. They turn to ash.
Bake the pizza bare, then build the greens on top of the hot cheese so they wilt just slightly and stick.
Arugula Microgreen Pizza Finish
Serves 2 · 18 minutes · Mains
Ingredients
- 1 — pizza dough ball (store-bought is fine)
- ½ cup — crushed San Marzano tomatoes
- 6 oz — fresh mozzarella, torn
- 2 oz — arugula microgreens
- 2 tbsp — olive oil
- 1 oz — shaved parmesan
- flaky salt and black pepper
Instructions
- Heat the oven hard
Get it to 500°F with a stone or steel inside for at least 30 minutes. Heat is the whole recipe.
- Build and bake
Stretch the dough, spread the tomato thinly, add the mozzarella. Bake 8–10 minutes until the crust blisters.
- Rest 60 seconds
Let it sit out of the oven for a minute so the greens don't hit molten cheese.
- Finish with greens
Pile the arugula microgreens over the whole surface, then oil, parmesan, salt and pepper. Slice and eat.
What the microgreens are doing here.
Grown-up bite
Arugula shoots are sharper than mature arugula for their size — a little goes a long way.
Added off the heat
Everything peppery about them is volatile. Bake them and it's gone.
Leafy-green benefits
Same dietary nitrate profile that makes leafy greens useful, in a much smaller volume.
Variations and pairings
Add salt-cured
Prosciutto draped on with the greens is the classic pairing for a reason.
White pizza
Skip the tomato, use ricotta and lemon zest under the mozzarella.
Milder
Sunflower shoots instead — nutty rather than peppery, and sturdier.
Vegan
Good cashew mozzarella and skip the parmesan; the greens carry it.
- Chianti
- Cold lager
- Simple tomato salad
- Lemon granita
More microgreen recipes
This recipe is only as good as the greens on top.
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