Best Broccoli Pizza – A Couple Cooks

This broccoli pizza is an absolute winner! The chewy crust is topped with tomato sauce and ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan cheese.

Got broccoli and want to add it to a pizza? Here’s the best way to do it: try this broccoli pizza with ricotta and Parmesan! This tasty pizza pie features our tested and true pizza dough and easy no cook pizza sauce. It’s topped with fresh sauteed broccoli florets, dollops of seasoned ricotta cheese, and showered with salty Parmesan. As cookbook authors with over a decade of perfecting homemade pizza, and we guarantee: you’ll love it!

Ingredients for broccoli pizza

This broccoli pizza is a basic idea for adding broccoli to pizza, and you can customize it as desired! We’ve used a tomato sauce and three types of cheese, making for a pie with huge flavor. Don’t attempt a broccoli pizza with raw broccoli (it doesn’t cook through in the bake time), but a quick sauté in a hot pan first does the trick. Here’s what you’ll need for the pizza:

Broccoli makes a great pizza topping! Want more recipes to use up the remaining broccoli? Go to 20 Tasty Broccoli Recipes.

Tips for cutting broccoli

This broccoli pizza recipe calls for cutting the broccoli into very small florets. This is important because it makes it easier to bite into on a pizza, versus a large floret that may take up the entire slice. Here are a few notes for cutting small florets:

1. Using a large chef’s knife, cut off the broccoli floret right where its stem meets the larger stalk.
2. Separate large florets by cut the base of the stem in half, then into smaller florets as desired.

Quick and easy pizza sauce

The star of this broccoli pizza, outside of the broccoli of course, is the pizza sauce! This easy no-cook tomato sauce is just a matter of stirring together a few ingredients. It’s so simple and you don’t even need to cook it! Here’s what you’ll need:

1. Fire roasted tomatoes This type of canned tomatoes is better than all the rest! Roasting tomatoes over an open flame brings a mellow, sweet flavor right out of the can. This type of tomato has become widely available in the US. If you can’t find it, use San Marzano tomatoes.
2. Small garlic clove
3. Dried oregano
4. Olive oil
5. Salt

Pizza dough recipes

The trick to the best broccoli pizza? Homemade pizza dough. This crust recipe works perfectly in a standard oven or pizza oven to make next-level, artisan style pies. We’ve got our tried and true master recipe, then a few other options.

• This Best Pizza Dough is our master recipe for pizza dough. It works best on a pizza stone in a standard oven. You’ll also need a pizza peel to easily slide the pizza onto the hot stone in the oven.
• This Thin Crust Pizza Dough is easy to make: you can roll it out instead of stretching it! It also works well in a home oven.
• If you’ve got a pizza oven, try this Pizza Oven Dough.
• Want a few easier options? Try a Pan Pizza in a cast iron skillet, no special pizza tools required. Or, make our Sheet Pan Pizza for serving a crowd: it makes two large pizzas in a sheet pan.

Broccoli pizza add-on ideas

This broccoli pizza recipe is delicious as is, with ricotta cheese that makes a creamy base for the salty broccoli florets! You can also add your own toppings like prosciutto, bacon, or other favorite adders to step it up. Here are a few ideas:

• Hot honey would add a sweet spicy counterpoint, or you could simply sprinkle with red pepper flakes. Try this 1-Minute Hot Honey recipe.
• Prosciutto slices or bacon would make a smoky, salty addition.
• Sausage crumbles would add a satiating savory component. For vegetarian, try purchased plant-based sausage or Homemade Vegan Ground Beef.

More pizza recipes

Want more homemade pizza recipes? Here’s how to make the best pizza at home: