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Recipe by Elaine Luxton-Drink In Life Blog

Ham Pizza with Tangy Mustard Herb Sauce

Tangy mustard gives this herb laced white pizza sauce a piquant flavor of a classic savory southern biscuit filled with ham and cheese. This homemade pizza might take a little longer to make, but is totally worth the effort.
This versatile white sauce can also be used in other pizza creations including the BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza found below.
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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • Etalia Foods Nudo frozen GF organic pizza crust
  • ½ pound Apple Smoked Bacon, fried, drained of excess grease and broken into small pieces. Reserve grease in pan to fry the ham.
  • 1 pound Black Forest Ham sliced into thin strips
  • ⅓ pound Whole Mozzarella sliced into thin pieces
  • ½ pound Smoked Cheddar Cheese, grated (2 tbsp of this will be used in pizza sauce)
  • Arugula for topping finished pizza
Mustard Herb Pizza Sauce
  • 1 *Roasted Whole Head of Garlic (remove roasted cloves once head of garlic is cooled and smash with fork, set aside).
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 1¼ cup milk, (2% or whole milk)
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • ½ tsp fresh ground pepper
  • 2 tbsp parmesan cheese, shredded
  • 2 tbsp smoked white cheddar cheese, grated
  • Small pinch of Nutmeg
  • 2-3 tbsp yellow mustard or favorite flavored mustard (I used Boar's Heads Honey Mustard)
  • 1 tbsp Each-chopped fresh chives, parsley and thyme

Method
 

  1. *Roast Whole Head of Garlic one hour before making this recipe.
    Fry chopped bacon in a frying pan on medium high until crisp, remove with slotted spoon onto a paper towel to remove excess grease. Add ham strips to bacon grease fry pan and cook fry until lightly browned. Remove with slotted spoon and place on a paper towel to remove excess grease. Leave bacon and ham while you prepare the pizza sauce.
    Preheat oven to 500 degrees F, and allow it to preheat for15-30 mins. before baking the pizza.
    Start making the pizza sauce by melting butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in flour and continue whisking for 1-2 minutes (do not let it brown).
    Slowly add milk, whisking constantly until smooth, thickened, and bubbly.
    Whisk in 1/4 tsp salt, 1/8 tsp black pepper, pinch of nutmeg and smashed roasted garlic cloves.
    Add parmesan and smoked white cheddar cheese and whisk another 30 seconds. Remove from heat and continue whisking just until cheese is melted and sauce is smooth then remove from heat. Fold in mustard and fresh chopped chives, parsley and thyme. Set aside to cool slightly before using for pizza. This makes 1½ cups of pizza sauce.
    To assemble pizza:
    Remove Nudo frozen pizza crust from freezer and package. If you have a pizza screen, then remove parchment paper from the frozen crust and lay frozen crust onto the screen.
    Spread a generous layer of Mustard Herb Pizza Sauce on frozen Nudo Pizza Crust. Evenly top pizza sauce with ham slices and bacon pieces. Add fresh mozzarella slices and top with grated smoked white cheddar cheese.
    Place pizza in preheated oven and cook for 10-12 minutes on the bottom rack of oven. Rotate pizza crust halfway through bake time for even baking.
    Once pizza is golden brown and bubbly, remove from the oven.
    Top with fresh Arugula. Enjoy!