Fig And Goat Cheese Pizza

Fig and Goat Cheese Pizza is not your average tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese pizza. This delectable pizza has contrasting tastes that combine exquisitely. The sweet taste of figs with the poignant taste of goat cheese really blends well with their clashing tastes. Even picky eaters will love this flatbread type of pizza.

Just 4 easy to find ingredients are needed to make this delectable meal; crescent rolls (I prefer Pillsbury Crescent Rolls), fig jam, goat cheese, and rosemary.

Flatbread Pizza

While I wouldn’t completely say that this fig and goat cheese pizza is technically a flatbread pizza, it is much thinner and breadier (is that even a word?) than regular pizzas. Therefore, I’m going on a limb and calling it a flatbread pizza for comparison. Hear me out.

Flatbread pizzas have been trendy for some time now. There are a variety of funky pizza concoctions that are added to flatbread that create fancier pizzas. Some flatbread pizzas have salads on them, others have full blown meals on top of them (short rib flatbread pizzas – yum!) and the list goes on and on.

Flatbread pizzas are much more than just mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, or mushrooms. Rather, they are complex with many toppings and flavors that combine opposing tastes that blend together, ironically, well.

This fig and goat cheese pizza is similar to a flatbread pizza with the sweet taste of figs, but with the contrasting flavors of goat cheese and rosemary. A few years ago, I would have said, hell no to this pizza! I love my red sauce pizzas with mozzarella cheese and pizza dough after all. However, after being exposed to these yummy flatbread recipes, they have since grown on me. Therefore, if you are new to these types of pizzas, you need to try these flavors together. Trust me, they grow on you. And as they grown on you, they become addictive and you find yourself craving these types of foods!

Ingredients Needed

This fig and goat cheese pizza is an elegant pizza that is embarrassingly easy to make. You know me with my simple ingredient list and easy to make instructions. I love to eat, but hate to waste time cooking, baking, and mixing up yummy cocktails! These days we have the beauty of making easy recipes so why reinvent the wheel?

This yummy pizza consists of just 4 ingredients. You will need the following:

• 1/2 cup Fig Jam
• 1 can Crescent Rolls
• 2-3 tbsp Goat Cheese Crumbled
• 1 tbsp Rosemary

Easy To Make

Again, this recipe consists of just 4 ingredients. Therefore, making this delicious pizza is super easy to cook. Here is the simple recipe – share it with whomever you wish:

• Preheat oven to 375 F.
• Roll out the crescent rolls and pinch the seams together to form a rectangular pizza dough.
• Spread the fig jam over the dough, leaving 1/2″ around the perimeter of the dough.
• Crumble goat cheese and place evenly on the fig jam.
• Sprinkle rosemary over the entire pizza.
• Bake for 10 – 12 minutes (less for a more doughy pizza, more time for a crispy crust).

When To Serve

You could serve this delicious fig and goat cheese pizza for a variety of options. For example, you could make this and serve it for:

• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
• Dessert
• Snack

Yes, that’s right, you could serve this fig and goat cheese pizza for any meal of the day or even as a snack! The sweet goodness of this pizza is like a breakfast pizza. After all, it does have figs on it and figs are a fruit, thus, making this a deliciously different type of breakfast!

We all know that pizza is a great option for lunch and dinner so serving this savory sweet pizza for either lunch or dinner is a no-brainer. It has 3 of the 4 food groups in it (dairy, bread, fruit), therefore, it makes a great choice for either meal.

And since desserts and snacks can sometimes be interchangeable, this pleasurable pizza can be served as a tasty snack or dessert. It’s pretty filling so it is a great choice for dessert – it could possibly keep you from overeating this yummy dessert. Although, I must warn you, this pizza is very addictive. You have been warned. I cannot be to blame if you overeat this from this point on!

More Yummy Treats

Currently, I don’t have a lot of sweet and savory recipes listed. However, I need to fix that as soon as possible because I am a huge fan of this combination lately.

If you love the idea of a savory cheese, you might want to try my Stuffed Spaghetti Squash.

The Honey Garlic Salmon isn’t very savory, but it is a sweet and tangy sauce that is interesting and deserves an honorable mention. If you like tangy, this is definitely worth trying. Might as well, it’s delicious and easy to make!

Another contradiction of flavors are the Maple Bacon Cinnamon Rolls. A must try for anyone who loves sweet and/or loves bacon!