This Blue Cheese and Pear Pizza is cooked on the grill. It’s a simple pizza recipe that is a nice, light dinner or a fun summer appetizer to share.
There is nothing super fancy about this blue cheese and pear pizza recipe. It’s very simple to make (especially if you purchase the pizza dough already made). It’s fun to make pizza on the grill in the summer months. I like to serve this one as an appetizer. It’s the kind of thing that everyone is always surprised about. They’re surprised about having a unique appetizer, and they’re surprised that it’s so good!
Ingredients needed:
- all purpose flour
- crumbled blue cheese
- pizza dough
- fresh pear
- olive oil
A note about the Pizza Dough:
You can use any pizza dough for this recipe. Buy it at the market if you want to make things easy, or make your own Basic Pizza Dough. If you cannot locate fresh pizza dough and don’t wish to make it yourself, try visiting your local pizza establishment and ask if they will sell a ball of fresh dough to you- they often will!
How to make Grilled Blue Cheese and Pear Pizza:
The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post.
Heat your grill to medium. Coat lightly with oil.
Sprinkle a work surface with flour and divide the dough in half. With a rolling pin, roll out the dough to two 8-inch circles, approximately ⅛-inch thick. Carefully lift the dough directly onto the grill rack. Brush olive oil lightly over the top side of each crust. Grill about 2 minutes, until the dough bubbles and begins to char on the bottom. Turn over.
Evenly distribute half of the cheese and pear slices over each crust. Close the grill cover or tent with foil. Grill 3 to 5 minutes, until the cheese is melted and the crust is crispy.
Remove the pizzas from the grill and transfer them to a cutting board.
Let them rest for a few minutes to cool off.
Hot Tip:
Drizzle honey (or hot honey) on top of the blue cheese and pear pizza for serving. It’s so good!
Slice and serve! What you get with this pizza is a crispy grilled crust topped with slightly melted blue cheese and sweet pear slices. It’s simple and delicious. Enjoy!
Favorite Pizza Recipes:
- Pepperoni Pizza
- Barbecued Chicken Pizza
- Prosciutto and Honey Burrata Pizza
- Bertucci’s Nolio Pizza
- French Bread Pizza
Blue Cheese and Pear Pizza
Recipe Details
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
- 2 ounces (or more) blue cheese, crumbled
- 1 ball fresh pizza dough
- 1 large pear, thinly sliced
- olive oil
Instructions
- Heat the grill to medium. Coat lightly with oil.
- Sprinkle a work surface with flour and divide the dough in half. With a rolling pin, roll out dough to two 8-inch circles, approximately ⅛-inch thick. Carefully lift the dough directly onto the grill rack. Brush olive oil lightly over the top side of each crust. Grill about 2 minutes, until the dough bubbles and begins to char on the bottom. Turn over.
- Evenly distribute half of the cheese and pear slices over each crust. Close the grill cover or tent with foil. Grill 3 to 5 minutes, until the cheese is melted and the crust is crispy.
- Remove from the grill, cut into wedges and serve.
Notes
- If you cannot locate fresh pizza dough and don't wish to make it yourself, try visiting your local pizza establishment and ask if they will sell a ball of fresh dough to you- they often will!
