Sweet ‘n Spicy
January 19th, 2012 § 2 Comments
The Pizza Princess is baaaaacccckkkkkk!!!!! I’ve missed our weekly pizza eating, to tell you the truth. But this pizza made up for what we’ve been lacking. It was inspired by some things I had in the fridge…and then I stumbled across a recipe I had found on a blog and one thing led to another….
My inspiration for pizza first came from the leftover pulled pork from our cooking class on Saturday (which, by the way, was so.much.fun.i.wanna.do.it.again). I saw the pulled pork and thought, “self, make a Hawaiian pizza.” Then an even brighter light bulb went off. There was left over grilled pineapple from the cooking class. This pizza was meant to be. And then, the stars lined up even more. I ran across a recipe for a Sweet ‘n Spicy Hawaiian pizza recipe that I had printed a while back. This recipe inspired the use of apricot preserves mixed with chili-garlic sauce for the sauce. I used about 1/4 cup preserves, heated for about 30 seconds to melt. Then I mixed in a smidge of the spicy stuff. Go crazy, add as much heat as you can handle. Once the sauce was spread thing, I added the pulled pork, diced pineapple and mozzarella cheese. Bacon would take this over the top. Not that I was afraid, I just didn’t have any in the fridge.
The apricot preserves was the perfect base. Sweet but spicy from the chili-garlic sauce. The whole thing was complete with a sprinkle of green onions. Red onion would also probably work wonders on this pizza.
Pizza night is back.
PIZZA PRINCESS!!! How I’ve missed you! Even though I can’t eat pizza with cheese on it anymore…
I’m glad you made this, because on my list of “pizza ideas” I had “pulled pork BBQ pizza” from back in the day when I was big on the pig (and not just as a pet possibility).
Apparently we both had pineapple on the brain as well…
omg. no cheese? the horror. there’s another pizza recipe in the works this week. it was amazing, too.
and speaking of pineapple, i had a cheese dip at a mexican restaurant this weekend in Charlotte and it had PINEAPPLE in it. it was incredible! obviously I’ll blog about that, too.