("Dio e Zingaro" by Municipale Balcanica)
- Hey, everyone.
I'm Jerry James Stone, and happy holidays.
Today, we're gonna make a delicious Christmas-themed pizza.
It's gonna have some butternut squash
that's like slightly caramelized,
delicious kale, pomegranate seeds,
and I think you're really, really gonna love it,
so let's get to it.
("Dio e Zingaro" by Municipale Balcanica)
Okay, so to start making this recipe,
the first thing that we're gonna do
is we're gonna saute some butternut squash.
And we're gonna do that with a little bit of butter,
some salt and pepper,
and I'm gonna add a little bit of brown sugar to it
just to give it a nice little caramelization on there,
and that's gonna be just wonderful for the pizza toppings.
So we're gonna start off by melting the butter.
Okay, so the butter is almost melted.
I'll add in some salt and pepper.
Our brown sugar.
Now you could definitely add in more brown sugar for this.
It just depends on how sweet you want your pizza.
Keep in mind we're gonna be adding some apples
and also some pomegranate seeds.
So it's gonna have a lot of flavor going on in there.
Now we're gonna add in some cubes of butternut squash.
Okay, so we're gonna go ahead and prepare our pizza
with a little bit of olive oil.
Just take a brush and brush that around
and get it completely coated.
And this pizza doesn't have a sauce, quote, unquote.
We're actually gonna use some really thinly sliced
Granny Smith apples.
So they're gonna be paper-thin,
so there's not gonna be a lot of that tartness there,
but we're gonna use the moisture from that apple
kind of as our sauce.
Okay, so now I'm just gonna add some minced garlic
to our pie.
So this pizza's gonna be just a delicious,
lovely combination of sweet and savory.
The garlic, the fruit, the butter squash, the pomegranate
hitting all of those zones in your mouth.
Spread that around.
That butternut squash, I tell you, it smells so good.
But now we're just gonna get back to building up the pizza.
So we just have these thin slices of apple.
Just gonna cover the whole pizza in that,
and it's just gonna add a really nice level of moisture,
a little bit of tartness to the pizza,
balance out the sweetness from the butternut squash.
And Granny Smith apples are just delicious
on pizza especially.
It just goes really well with cheese
'cause it's no secret that apples are wonderful with cheese.
So there's to that.
These are sliced with a mandoline, so like paper-thin.
I recommend doing that way.
A Cuisinart, if you have a food processor,
that'll get it pretty close.
I would not hand-slice them.
They'll be a little too thick.
If you do not have a food processor,
I would go about just like maybe using fewer apples.
And one for the chef.
Okay.
Now we're gonna add in our cheese.
I'm using a blend of Gruyere, mozzarella, and provolone.
Any cheese will really work.
Any white cheese will work.
But Gruyere works really, really well with butternut squash,
and also apples.
And then around the perimeter of the pizza,
I'm gonna put some grated Parmesan
'cause you can just never have enough cheese on pizza.
I mean, okay, maybe you can, if you're lactose intolerant,
but in my case, you can never have enough cheese on pizza.
And even if I was lactose intolerant,
I probably would still have it 'cause it's worth it.
Okay, so the next thing we're gonna do is prepare the kale.
So I have some baby kale we're gonna add some olive oil to.
Just a little bit, just to lightly coat it.
And then what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna go in
and massage that oil into the kale.
So by massaging the kale, it'll soften it a little bit,
which will be great, and then the oil,
when it's baking, it's gonna make it nice and crispy,
almost like a kale chip, but not quite,
but it's just to add a nice little bit of crunch
to the pizza.
Now I'm gonna add the kale to the pizza.
Just even it out.
It's gonna be a really festive pizza.
It just screams Christmas.
It has kale, and it's gonna have pomegranate seeds,
so you have that red-and-green palette thing
kind of going on, and, you know,
butternut squash is definitely a holiday thing, so.
Okay, so now we're gonna add our
caramelized butternut squash to the pizza.
Spread it out evenly there.
It just kind of screams fall, doesn't it?
So now we're gonna bake the pizza at 425 degrees
for about 10 to 15 minutes.
You want that cheese to be just nicely melted.
That kale's gonna crisp up,
and you'll start to see the edges,
the perimeter of the pizza, will actually start to brown.
And it's gonna smell so good.
Okay, let's go get this baked.
Okay, so we baked the pizza.
It looks absolutely delicious.
It's piping hot, so I'm not gonna bite into it right now,
but we are gonna top it off with some pomegranate seeds.
How pretty does that look?
Green, red, orange, just looks like winter.
This pizza is ready for Christmas.
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Have a happy holiday.
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