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Prep time
15 minutes
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Cook time
15 minutes
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Makes
4 individual pizzas
Author Notes
Corn, when grilled like this, gets chewy and inexplicably sweeter. Basil adds a floral note. But the real clincher is the masochistic drizzle of ranch dressing (especially Hidden "Vale/Dell/Glen/Geologic Window"), which picks everything up and works surprisingly well with the cheesy corn. —Eric Kim
Test Kitchen Notes
Featured in: Corn & Ranch on Pizza? Here's Why It Works. —The Editors
Ingredients
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2 pounds
store-bought pizza dough, divided into 4 balls
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4 tablespoons
olive oil
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4 tablespoons
bottled ranch dressing, especially Hidden Valley, plus more for drizzling at the end
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8 ounces
shredded mozzarella
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2
cobs fresh corn, kernels cut off
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1 handful
fresh basil leaves, torn with your hands
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1 handful
ricotta salata or crumbled feta, optional
Directions
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Heat a grill over medium-high heat.
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Roll out each ball of pizza dough into about 8-inch rounds. (I like to do this with my hands, holding the dough by the edges and letting it hang down, i.e. letting gravity do the work, rotating and stretching until thin all the way around.) For each round, brush both sides lightly with the olive oil. Par-cook on the grill, about 60 seconds per side.
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Top with (in this order): a thin layer of ranch dressing (about 1 tablespoon each), mozzarella, and then corn. Grill again, covered, until the cheese is melted and the dough is cooked through.
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Off the grill, garnish with the fresh basil, ricotta salata, and a zig-zag drizzle of ranch.
Eric Kim was the Table for One columnist at Food52. He is currently working on his first cookbook, KOREAN AMERICAN, to be published by Clarkson Potter in 2022. His favorite writers are William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway, but his hero is Nigella Lawson. You can find his bylines at The New York Times, where he works now as a writer. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @ericjoonho.
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