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If you’ve deprived your taste buds by only eating pizza with red sauce and mozzarella cheese, then get ready to have your mind blown!
From butternut squash to blueberries, goat cheese on pizza will change the way you eat pizza forever!
Is Goat Cheese Good For Pizza?
If people can put pineapple on pizza, then I can put goat cheese on pizza!
Not only is goat cheese delicious on pizza but it’s also great in appetizers, salads, main dishes, desserts, and more!
Unlike other boring cheese (just kidding I LOVE all cheese), goat cheese brings flavor to the dish. With a velvety, creamy texture and a tangy-sweet mild taste.
What Does Goat Cheese Taste Like On Pizza?
Creamy, buttery, silky, smooth, rich, mild, slightly tangy, earthy, and delicious are all adjectives I would use to describe goat cheese.
What a lot of people don’t realize about goat milk and goat cheese is the process before it becomes cheese. Several factors play a role in the end product changing the flavor, such as age.
The longer the cheese ages, the more intense the flavor. I’ll share more about this subject under ‘how to make goat cheese’.
Does Goat Cheese Melt On Pizza?
We are all most familiar with the traditional pizza sold in many chain restaurants with a basic red sauce and mozzarella cheese.
Mozzarella cheese is white and shredded with a stretchy consistency that spreads when heated.
Goat Cheese Pizza looks differently because it does not stretch and spread as it heats.
Instead, it provides this melt in your mouth morsels of goodness in all the right places.
Goat Cheese Doesn’t Melt In The Oven
It should be noted that goat cheese on pizza does melt, and it does in fact melt in your oven. Just not the way you are accustomed to cheese melting.
Goat cheese closely resembles its original form when baked. It does all its melting on the inside.
In other words, if you sliced a 2″ round of goat cheese and place it on top of your pizza, when you remove it from the oven, it will look like it did when you placed it in the oven.
Even when it is cooked to the point of a slight caramel color on the outside, the inside is rich and creamy.
How to Make Goat Cheese
As I mentioned earlier, how the goat milk is processed and even the breed of goat, have a lot to do with the end product.
We raise Nigerian Dwarf Goats specifically for that reason. They have a high fat content, making their milk rich and creamy, and the cheese from that milk is AMAZING.
Goat milk, and goat cheese, is more widely consumed in other countries over cows milk and cheese.
I get a little chuckle when people taste goat milk for the very first time and say ‘it tastes just like milk!. Yep, it tastes just like milk.
If you are toying with the idea of raising your own goats to have fresh goat milk, and even better, fresh goat cheese, you need to pick a goat breed that is best for you.
You also need to consider all the pros and cons as to raising goats. I go over all of those in my article Why You Don’t Want Goats.
If you can get your hands on some fresh goat milk, consider making fresh cheese for your pizza.
Our friends shared their step-by-step process with you on how to make cheese from scratch.
- How to Make Feta Goat Cheese by Homestead Lady
- How to Make Goat Cheese Ricotta by Oak Hill Homestead
- Chevre – How to Make The Best Goat Cheese by Organic Goat Lady
I highly suggest taking a cheese making class if you can find one nearby, they are so much fun!
Goat Cheese On Pizza? YES! 33 Recipes To Get Your Taste Buds Jumping!
If you've deprived your taste buds by only eating pizza with red sauce and mozzarella cheese, then get ready to have your mind blown!
From butternut squash to blueberries, goat cheese on pizza will change the way you eat pizza forever!
This simple flatbread recipe is speckled with fresh summer fruit, herbs, cheese, and a balsamic glaze. It’s so easy to make and loaded with flavor. Serve it as an appetizer at your next casual brunch or luncheon.
Fig and Prosciutto Flatbread Pizza is a mouth watering appetizer with fresh figs, prosciutto, and a few simple ingredients to wow your palate. It's an elegant, yet super easy flatbread pizza made for air fryer or oven.
This Goat Cheese and Spinach Pizza has a delicious savory flavor with white sauce, goat cheese, spinach, and gooey melted mozzarella cheese. The dough only takes about 10 minutes to prepare.
Chorizo, Asparagus, and Goat’s Cheese Pizza is a great way to highlight its woodsy flavors. Combined with creamy goat’s cheese and spicy chorizo, asparagus is unstoppable in the flavor department.
Delicious mix of sweet, salty and savory all held together in a buttery flaky crust makes this Heirloom Tomato Galette with Goat Cheese and Honey is the best thing.
This Grilled Peach and Goat Cheese Flatbread with balsamic glaze is super delicious and can be ready in about 15 minutes or less! The flavors of juicy grilled or sautéed peaches, warm naan bread or flatbread, creamy goat cheese, fresh basil, and sweet and tangy balsamic glaze pair perfectly together for an easy flatbread pizza.
Gluten-Free Beet Pesto Pizza with Kale and Goat Cheese is a nutrient-dense healthier pizza recipe, packed with vitamins and flavor! This colorful superfood pizza is packed with antioxidants!
This fig pizza recipe is the best homemade gourmet summer pizza. An olive oil base, fresh figs, pear, caramelized onions, brie and goat cheese. Topped with arugula and walnut crumbles. Followed by a drizzle of honey and fig balsamic reduction vinegar glaze.
I love a good white pizza, and this asparagus goat cheese pizza is a winner all around.
Looking for a quick bite that is packed with flavor? Try this flatbread goat cheese Portobello pizza and your taste buds will thank you!
This Grilled Zucchini Flatbread recipe is perfect served as an (impressive!) appetizer, or combined with a salad for a satisfying vegetarian meal! It’s also a brilliant way to use up that bounty of late-summer zucchini and summer squash!
A delicious savory spring meal, this asparagus mushroom galette is studded with creamy goat cheese and covered with a flaky, buttery crust-it’s like a fancy pizza pie.
This healthy beet galette recipe with goat cheese and orange mustard vinaigrette is a perfect festive vegetarian entrée. Whole grain olive oil crust filled with tangy goat cheese and sweet sliced beets marinated in orange mustard vinaigrette make for a perfectly balanced and flavorful dish.
Goat Cheese Apricot Pizza is the perfect summer flatbread that features juicy, fresh apricots and apricot jam, goat cheese, sliced almonds and a drizzle of honey. This sweet and savory flatbread is the perfect appetizer or addition to a summer meal. You can make this in the air fryer or oven and have it on the table in under 20 minutes!
Time to up your pizza game. This Caramelized Onion & Goat Cheese Pizza is worthy of red wine and fine dining. Made with the best homemade pizza dough and fresh Marinara Sauce. Make it and love it!
Grilled Honey Goat Cheese Pizza is an easy vegetarian recipe loaded with bold flavors and textures. Creamy goat cheese, sage, pecans and honey come together on a chewy grilled pizza crust for a meal you will want to make again and again!
This goat cheese pizza is bursting with tangy, creamy goodness, and it's way easier to make than you'd think. Just whip up some goat cheese and milk, slice a juicy, ripe tomato, and dinner's on the table in about 20 minutes.
Spicy Red Pepper, Goat Cheese, Olive, and Arugula Pizza. This homemade pizza comes together in less than 90 minutes and is packed with flavor!
This Goat Cheese Pizza is a true masterpiece, pairing soft pockets of chevre with tangy, garlicky tomato sauce. Shower it with a few sliced onions and a sprinkle of fresh basil, and we promise: the slices will be gone in a flash!
Caramelized Shallot and Bacon Goat Cheese Pizza. Homemade pizza dough topped with fresh summer tomatoes, tangy goat cheese, crisp bacon, basil, lots of melty cheese, and sweet and delicious caramelized shallots. Oh, and some fresh thyme and chili flakes too
At this moment, I am in love with pear recipes! This pear and goat cheese pizza has the perfect balance of savory and sweet. In addition to pear, this goat cheese pizza has caramelized red onions, ham, garlic and cheddar.
This mozzarella and goat cheese pizza starts with a roasted garlic mash followed by basil vinaigrette. "It makes the garlic flavor sing".
This pesto goat cheese pizza is the perfect summer pizza. Use store-bought pesto or make your own and enjoy all the flavors of summer on your pizza!
The BEST quick and easy weeknight dinner! These Spinach Pesto Goat Cheese Individual Pizzas can be made in less than 30 minutes. Loaded with flavor and wholesome ingredients, this delicious pizza recipe is a family favorite!
Leeks pair beautifully with prosciutto and creamy goat cheese to make a bright and light pizza.
Two of my very favorite things come together in one delicious pizza: BBQ pulled pork and goat cheese.
Pesto, pecan, mozzarella, basil and goat cheese pizza is the most universally LOVED pizza to ever come out of my pizza oven. I know. I was surprised too. Here's how to make this delicious pesto pizza.
EXPERIENCE SOMETHING NEW TODAY AND TRY THIS AMAZING BLACKBERRY AND GOAT CHEESE PIZZA WITH FRESH ARUGULA. IT DOES NOT DISAPPOINT!!
This pizza is refreshingly lemony with creamy, salty cheeses and prosciutto with just a delicate hint of nutmeg.
This Goat Cheese Pizza recipe has a creamy white sauce, zingy arugula, and loads of cheese. Pizza Friday just stepped it up a notch!
"Toasted & Roasted" Walnut & Goat Cheese Pizza Recipe | Home Run Inn
Savory goat cheese pizza with the surprising crunch of walnuts.
When you combine blueberries, goat cheese, and honey caramelized onions the flavors explode in your mouth. This Blueberry, Goat Cheese & Caramelized Onion Pizza is surprisingly delightful!
Goat cheese’s incredible, creamy and crumbly texture and slightly tart flavor cut the sweetness of caramelized fennel and butternut squash, as well as the richness of the béchamel sauce.
More Than Goat Cheese On Pizza
If you are enjoying our pizza recipes, there is a whole world of goat cheese recipes for you to try!
We have over 50 Recipes with goat cheese from pasta dishes to sandwiches.
In addition to the main course, we have over 35 Goat Cheese Appetizer Recipes and 19 Salad with Goat Cheese Recipes.
When it comes to goat cheese recipes, we have you covered, all the way to dessert.
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Tessa
Tuesday 20th of September 2022
Well, thank you, Amber - now I'm starving! :)