Name: Pizza with Butternut Squash & Smoked Mozzarella
Yield: Makes 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 tbsp. heavy cream; Kosher salt, to taste; 1¼ lb. smoked mozzarella, thinly sliced; ¾ cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling; 1 small butternut squash (about 1 lb.), peeled, seeded, and cut into 1″ pieces; 16 fresh basil leaves; Fine semolina, for dusting; 1 recipe Basic Pizza Dough; 1 tsp. chile flakes; 2 tbsp. ricotta; 2 small zucchini, thinly sliced; 1 red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, and cut into 1″ pieces; 1 yellow bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, and cut into 1″ pieces

Preparation info

Makes
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Italian Comfort Food

By The Editors of Saveur

Published 2015

About

This sweet-smoky pizza is adapted from one made by Antonio Starita, owner of the renowned Pizzeria Starita in Naples. He once famously served his version of the pie to Pope John Paul II—hence its nickname, pizza del papa, or “the Pope’s pizza.”