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Prosciutto and Fig Picnic Pizza

 1 recipe whole wheat picnic pizza dough
 1 jar Colavita Pesto
 ¼ lb prosciutto di parma
 ½ cup ricotta cheese
 Sea salt
 6-8 fresh mission figs
 3 tbsp honey
 Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1

Slice the figs into quarters.

2

Heat 2 tablespoons of honey (plus the optional dash of ground cinnamon) with ¼ cup of water in a small saucepan over medium heat.

3

Allow the honey to dissolve, and then add the figs to the mixture coating them evenly with honey and water. Remove from the heat.

4

Trim the long strips of prosciutto into smaller strips, about ½” long. With a sharp knife, make 1” cuts, ¾ of the depth of the dough, starting at one end of the pizza dough and working lengthwise toward the other. Continue making lines of cuts throughout the dough. Place a fig and a piece of prosciutto in each cut of the dough. Continue until all cuts are filled with fig and prosciutto.

5

Top the figs with dollops of ricotta cheese, drizzle the entire surface with Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil and sprinkle with kosher salt.

6

Bake the bread in an oven heated to 400 degrees F for 15 minutes.

7

Then reduce the heat to 375 and bake for 20 minutes longer. If the top of the bread browns too much, you can cover it with some aluminum foil.

8

For perfect picnic presentation, slice the pizza bread into squares and again in half, spreading the arugula pesto in the middle