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A simple sweet & savory combination, this sweet potato pizza combines roasted sweet potatoes, creamy brie cheese, and peppery fresh arugula.
This post was created in partnership with North Carolina Sweet Potatoes; all opinions are our own.
A tree fell on our house this week. Thankfully we’re all okay and the house is still standing, though a new roof is in our future. Our house looks a little dilapidated with its crushed roof, and the gaping split of the tree is still dominating the backyard, which is covered in sawdust and scraggly branches. Life is messy. Keep reading for more on messy lives, and this sweet potato brie pizza recipe.
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Behind the picture perfect
It’s not a novel thought, but behind every styled sweet potato pizza or perfectly light bright kitchen photo or giggling adorable chubby baby face is a real life being lived: messy, draining and confusing at times. This house drama wasn’t so bad, but combined with some heart-wrenching stuff we’ve been dealing with related to adoption, it makes us feel heavy. It’s one of those seasons where we’re focusing on putting one foot in front of the other. By the same token, we have so much to be thankful for…like insurance (ha!). Our health. Amazing friends and family. The most supportive readers (thank you!). Steady careers. A creative outlet that is endlessly fulfilling.
Gratitude is the enemy of hopelessness. (Also, so is binge watching Netflix.)
How to make sweet potato pizza
And in between it all, we make food….lots of it. Like this sweet potato pizza, which might be one of our favorite pizzas yet. The sweetness of the roasted potatoes combined with the creamy brie and peppery fresh arugula is an ultimate taste treat. We’d never tried brie pizza before, but it’s now officially in our rotation. This recipe is yet another reason to feed our obsession with sweet potatoes…as if we needed one! A few of our other favorite sweet potato recipes are below.
Sending warm thoughts to all of you whatever your life season, be it filled with joy…or a little messy. We’d love to hear from you in the comments: what are you grateful for? (And it can be sweet potatoes. That’s on our list.
Looking for more sweet potato recipes?
Outside of this sweet potato pizza, here are some of our favorite sweet potato recipes:
- Mexican Loaded Sweet Potato Fries
- Roasted Two-Potato Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
- Lentil and Goat Cheese Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
- Loaded Sweet Potato Skins with Pinto Beans
- Roasted Nourish Bowl
- Loaded Sweet Potato Rounds (a reader favorite!)
- Sweet Potato and Black Bean Enchiladas (another reader favorite!)
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- Everything you need to know about making artisan pizza
- Our Best Vegan Pizza
- Spicy Vegetarian Diavola Pizza
- Perfect Neapolitan Pizza
- Spicy Vegetarian Diavola Pizza
- Our Best Vegan Pizza
- Italian Calzones
- Yogurt Ranch Salad Pizza
- Homemade Margherita Pizza Recipe
- KitchenAid Pizza Dough Recipe
- All Our Homemade Pizza Recipes
This recipe is…
This sweet potato brie pizza is vegetarian.
Sweet Potato Pizza with Brie
A simple sweet & savory combination, this sweet potato pizza combines roasted sweet potatoes, creamy brie cheese, and peppery fresh arugula.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 pizza (8 slices) 1x
- Category: Main Dish
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients
- 1 ball Best Pizza Dough (or Food Processor Dough or Thin Crust Dough)
- 1 small sweet potato (8 ounces)
- 1 large garlic clove
- 1 shallot
- 4 ounces Brie cheese
- 1 cup baby arugula, packed
- Olive oil
- Kosher salt
- Semolina flour or cornmeal, for dusting the pizza peel
Instructions
- Make the pizza dough: Follow the Best Pizza Dough recipe to prepare the dough. (This takes about 15 minutes to make and 45 minutes to rest.)
- Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 450°F. OR preheat your pizza oven (here’s the pizza oven we use).
- Slice the sweet potato into ⅛-inch thick rounds. In a small bowl, mix the slices with 1 teaspoon olive oil and ¼ teaspoon kosher salt. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, then add the slices and roast until tender when pricked with a fork, about 9 to 10 minutes.
- Turn up the oven to 500°F. Meanwhile, mince the garlic and thinly slice the shallot.
- When the oven is ready, dust a pizza peel with cornmeal or semolina flour. (If you don’t have a pizza peel, you can use a rimless baking sheet or the back of a rimmed baking sheet. But a pizza peel is well worth the investment!) Stretch the dough into a circle; see this video for instructions. Then gently place the dough onto the pizza peel.
- Brush the dough lightly with olive oil. Spread garlic evenly over the pizza, then add sweet potato rounds, torn pieces of Brie cheese and sliced shallots. Sprinkle with kosher salt.
- Transfer the pizza to the pizza stone using the pizza peel, then bake until the cheese is melted, about 5 to 7 minutes. While the pizza bakes, mix the arugula with a drizzle of olive oil and a pinch of kosher salt. When the pizza is baked, top with arugula and cool for 1 to 2 minutes, then cut into slices and serve.
Really an innovative recipe, loved the addition of sweet potato in it. Pinning.
Thank you so much, Puja!
Another exceptional post full of wisdom. So sorry to hear about your roof and the adoption. When it rains it pours. But at some point a rainbow comes out. Lovely pizza too. I never buy brie but I’m liking the sounds of it on this pizza.
Katie, you are so full of encouragement and support — thank you so much! I love the thought of a rainbow and will keep that visual in my mind! Sending love :)
My heart aches for you guys. I truly hope everything works out for you. As I am just coming out of a season of heavy, life altering unknowns, I know that the darkness and sadness right now are nothing compared to the joys that come with the light. Prayers for you daily. :)
Wow, thank you so much Erika. We are so grateful for your prayers! Whatever your heavy season, we’re praying light for you too. xxoo
So true that life is messy and that gratitude helps with enduring all sorts of trials. Just said a quick prayer for you in regards to the adoption process… the waiting and uncertainty must be so difficult. As for this pizza- we just happened to made a sweet potato pizza ourselves last week because my daughter saw it in the Forest Feast for Kids cookbook. I admit it did not sound at all good to me at first, but we all ending up loving it! I’ll have to try it with arugula and brie next time!
Thank you SO much for these kind thoughts, Emily! How fun that you made a sweet potato pizza too — we will have to check out Erin’s new book! Yes, we were doubtful at first too but it turned out fantastic. Hope you enjoy if you get to trying it!
I’m so glad that you’re house is okay-ish, but oh wow. That’s a pretty stressful thing to deal with. I like your idea of remembering gratitude to deal with those big stress items. Right now I’m grateful for my health, for summer produce, for enough money to live not survive (after living for a few years paycheck to paycheck), for my student loans (because even though they’re extensive I wouldn’t have been able to go to college otherwise, and I became a person I’m proud of because of college), for my friends and family, and most of all for my husband. I’m also grateful for good food, and this sweet potato pizza looks like just the thing I’d like to have for dinner.
What an amazing list of gratitude! Thank you for sharing this. I love what you said about being thankful for student loans because you are thankful for the personal development college gave you — what a positive perspective!
So sorry to hear about your house! Glad it can be fixed though! And in the meantime, there’s this delicious pizza and thank goodness for that :)
Aww thank you Gaby! Yeah, it’s looking a little sad…but we’re glad everyone is ok. And pizza = the best distraction!
Hang in there! I really hope bright things come in the near future. In the meantime this pizza looks simply perfect.
Thank you so much, Clem! We hope so too :)
MMmmmmm! This pizza is so totally up my alley! I couldn’t be craving it more!
Haha I think we live on the same alley! :) Thank you!