Italian crispy thin crust ricotta spinach pizza with fontina and roasted garlic. The best homemade white spinach pizza Bianca!
This white ricotta spinach pizza with sweet roasted garlic cloves is a nice way to say good-by to summer.
Naturally I wanted to close our little summer pizza series with one of my favorite healthy flavor combinations: ricotta + spinach!
If you like white pizza, then this one is for you!
Not that I mind diving into the soups and stews season at all, but first things first 😉
Now you know ricotta spinach anything is a winner in my book, what a lovely pair, wouldn’t you agree ? Add some fontina to the mix and you got yourself some real magic happening.
Let’s not forget about that garlic: you roast it straight in the skillet on low flame until golden and sweet. Then you add the spinach and let it wilt for just a minute. I actually eat that straight out of the pan like that for breakfast.
You should definitely cook the spinach before putting it on pizza, it just calls for that kind of texture.
This is how you do it:
- Start by making the rustic pizza dough , Shocker huh? 😉
- Very important: use a pizza stone (<–amazon) preheated with your oven! I know I said it like 15 times before, and I’ll continue saying it till the day I die. Unless you have a pizza oven, go get yourself a cheap pizza stone today. You will thank me later, I know this.
Ricotta spinach and garlic on a thin crisp crust, I mean what else is there ..? A good movie and a chilled bottle of white vino, hashtag #LifeMade !
Oh, you see those little fire kisses on top ? So cute, I know! You can get those by putting the pizza under the broiler flames for about 30 seconds at the end. Of course If you have your own pizza oven you are a boss and the broiler step won’t be necessary.
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Not in the mood for spinach ? Just replace it with some cooked Italian sausage, or with a few anchovies for a Pizza Bianca alla Romana.
Italian crispy thin crust Pizza Bianca with ricotta, healthy spinach and roasted garlic.
- 1 batch rustic pizza dough
- 1 lb ricotta cheese
- 1 lb fontina cheese shredded
- 1/4 c parmigiano reggianno grated
- 1/3 c extra virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 lb garlic spinach
- 20 cloves garlic
- pinch of sea salt
- black pepper to taste freshly cracked
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Make a batch of the rustic pizza dough.
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Smash the garlic cloves with the side of a chef’s knife and peel.
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In a large skillet add a lug of olive oil and roast the garlic cloves on medium low flame until golden. Add the spinach with a pinch of sea salt and using a pair of tongues toss to coat in the oil and roasted garlic. Cook for a couple of minutes until wilted and remove from heat. Makes her not to overcook it.
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Add the ricotta and fontina cheese to the bowl of a food processor together with a lug of olive oil and a pinch of sea salt. Process until combined and set aside.
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Preheat your oven with a pizza stone in it to 500”F or as high as it will go.
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Form the pizza pies as instructed in the rustic pizza dough recipe and brush each one with a thin layer of olive oil on top. Leave about 1/2 inch at the edges. Sprinkle with some of the parmigiana region cheese on top and bake in the preheated oven on the pizza stone for 3 to 4 minutes.
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Quickly and carefully spoon some of the ricotta fontina mixture over the top of the pizza pie and bake an additional 5 minutes to your desired doneness level.
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Once the pizza comes out of the oven you want to top it with the sautéed spinach and some of the roasted garlic cloves. Shave some parmigiana reggianno over the top and serve with freshly cracked black pepper.
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Friday night is pizza night at our house, and this pizza will be on the menu this Friday for sure. Florentina, this looks absolutely scrumptious!
yay! send me pictures, I wanna see the party !!
This looks seriously delicious! I can’t wait to try it! Thanks for sharing.
I consider Pizza to be among one of my most beloveds, not far from my six boys in fact. Well, that may be a stretch but I think you know what I’m saying. Thank you for this beautiful specimen. Thank you for instructing your readers to use a hot stone. Thank you for putting the spinach on as it comes out of the oven. My only regret over this prize is that I’m not there to enjoy it with you. Very nicely done!
Wow you are a true pizza enthuziast as they call them. I like you a lot, and you totally understand what I’m talking about with the pizza stone. there is no other way ! Auguri !
OMG you used 20 garlic gloves, I am already in love with this recipe only by reading that! So much garlic flavor and ricotta is amazing, honestly I can care less about the spinach at this time lol, just give me the cheese the dough and the garlic and I am happy!
Yes, you know how everyone fights over them, so I figured just make enough for each little pizza hahah
I am a spinach-on-my-pizza girl too! And I was telling my husband the other day that it was time for another homemade pizza night. Thank you for this recipe. This is on my menu for this weekend! 🙂
Awesome ! Please report back, I wanna see photos and all 😉
I love me a good pizza and this founds fantastic. Can’t wait to try it.
I love pizza and yours looks really yummy!
I love Spinach Ricotta pizza! Makes such a nice change from tomato based pizzas, this looks fab!
I agree, especially if you get that pizza crust nice and crisp , yummy !
Those sweet roasted garlic cloves look delicious on this pizza! I need a slice of this in my life!
I need 6 entire pizzas to myself, a slice is just a tease lol
This looks scrumptious!!
Oooooh I put roasted garlic on my pizza last month and it is soooo perfect.
I haven’t taken the plunge of pizza dough at home yet…maybe I’ll try soon!
Hillary, it is so easy, and once you make your own pizza dough, You’ll never again buy it at the store.
I love how organic and rustic it looks. I love pizza that has organic flavours on them!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you, that means I did a good job, everything around here is rustic and organic so yeah, pizza jackpot ! lol
Ricotta and spinach and then the garlic, what wonderful flavor.
They have magic those 3 huh ? 😉
This pizza looks great! Perfect for the last few weeks of the grilling season 🙂
Oh yes, Tara, you can grill them too, I think I forgot to put that in the notes. Thanks for the reminder , note to self #GrillPizza
Florentina, your pizzas are the most delicious/authentic looking pizzas I’ve ever seen. Loved the pizza series!
Awww thanks so much, that really made my day xo’s
Florentina I definitely trust your Italian cooking. You’re my go to source for pizza now 🙂 Thanks for the recipe!
Woohoo ! that’s fantastic makes me do the happy dance ! pizza for everyone !
Looove pizza with a white sauce and am obsessed with garlic so any recipe with 20+ garlic cloves always catches my eye!
I’m Italian — I’ll take pizza any way I can get it. I love your combination. We use 00 flour and it makes the most pliable dough — fantastic. I’ll have to try your toppings.
You got Pizza and all of a sudden the world is better place, I know what you mean 😉
Oooohhh I love the fact that you have a white pizza recipe with fontina!!! I love how creamy and rich it tastes. Plus, that’s a really great tip on roasting the garlic straight in the pan over low heat. I will definitely try making that way next time. I can’t wait to give your rustic pizza dough a try too:)
Thank you Leslie, the garlic roasts so much faster when you do it in a pan instead of the oven, so that’s a winner for me. And you know it, fontina is everything xo’s
This looks fantastic, and I love both the look and the thickness of the crust. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Callie, hope you give it a go, happy weekend !
I love that you are making a series of recipes using your famous rustic pizza dough!! And as always – are you SURE you didn’t borrow a DSLR? 😉 N x
Haha, I learned that from a great teacher 😉 xo’s
Pinning of course! N x
Your photography is awesome, considering all the photos are from an Iphone. I’m in awe!
Thanks so much, my Iphone is my best friend ! 🙂
Once again, an amazing looking pizza recipe! The medley of the fontina, ricotta, and spinach sound delicious, and I love the big bits of garlic on top, as garlic is the tastiest around this time of year.
This is the perfect way to say goodbye to summer! I love all the ingredients that you combined and can only imagine how perfectly delicious this pizza tastes. I am drooling at my computer screen!
I know the feeling, it happens to me when I look at what you made heheh
I’m such a fan of white pizza – more garlic and creaminess the better. This looks divine!
Thank you, as I say there can never be too much garlic lol
I just came back to take one more look at this! Gosh, my stomach is begging me for a slice!
Ok, now you’ll have to come visit and we can have a pizza party 🙂
Looks delicious. That’s one of my fav topping – spinach & ricotta, Yum.
thanks Molly, I always feel like spinach and ricotta go together like peanut butter and jelly lol
I’m not sure which pizza I like best, this one or the burrata. They both look fab! I guess I’ll have to try both.
I have the same dilemma, so I make them all, but Burrata just has my heart forever 😉
Any recipe that calls for 20 cloves of garlic is a FAVORITE of mine!! Amazing!!
Thanks Heather, that is my standard for a good recipe too, the amount of garlic is what I need to know 😉
Oh Florentina! Another wonderful pizza recipe on my list to try for our pizza night 🙂 Looks fantastic!
yes you must Oana, my plan is to test a new one every weekend , yum !