• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

SheCooks.Design

Recipes, cooking classes, design, and good, clean fun

  • Cooking Classes
  • GráBia Irish Food Tour 2025
  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • Dinner
    • Snack
    • Breakfast
    • Soups
    • Desserts
    • Appetizer
    • Side Dish
    • Brunch
  • How To Videos
  • About
    • Media
    • Ireland Blog
    • Contact

Wild Mushroom Pizza

January 17, 2019

Jump to Recipe·Print Recipe
White whole wheat pizza with mushrooms and goats cheese

If you know me, you know I’m a bit of a pizza fiend, my entire life. But wild mushrooms on top of anything was not at the top of my list as a child, that’s for certain. But they sure are now! Adding the caramelized onions to this pizza really puts this one over the top!

This wild mushroom pizza has caramelized onions, and crazy flavorful fontina cheese, and is a bit indulgent, (um, butter), and takes a little time to prepare (but all prep can be done ahead of time), and totally worth it! Pay close attention to the notes in the recipe, there a few techniques that make a lot of difference in the outcome of the vegetables.

To make this bit less indulgent (but still delicious as all get-out):

  • use olive oil instead of butter when cooking the veg
  • use less cheese, but do still use a strong cheese like the suggested Fontina or goats cheese
  • add some baby spinach on top of the pizza before it cooks, season with a pinch of kosher salt (affiliate link), no really, it’s good!

Be sure to make the White Whole Wheat Pizza Dough too, Grab a glass of wine, follow the instructions for the dough and pizza, and you’ve got the perfect Pizza Friday!

Print
clock clock iconcutlery cutlery iconflag flag iconfolder folder iconinstagram instagram iconpinterest pinterest iconfacebook facebook iconprint print iconsquares squares iconheart heart iconheart solid heart solid icon
White whole wheat pizza crust with mushrooms, cheese and micro greens

Wild Mushroom Pizza with Caramelized Onions, Fontina, and Rosemary

5 Stars 4 Stars 3 Stars 2 Stars 1 Star No reviews
  • Author: Shelagh
  • Prep Time: 1 hour
  • Cook Time: 1 hour
  • Total Time: 2 hours
  • Yield: 4 pizzas 1x
  • Category: Pizza
  • Method: Bake
  • Cuisine: American
Print Recipe
Pin Recipe

Description

You could make the dough while the onions and mushrooms are cooking to save some time. Just don’t forget to stir them occasionally. 

Original recipe from Bon Appétit magazine


Ingredients

Units Scale

White Whole Wheat Pizza Dough recipe

  • 4 tablespoons butter, divided
  • 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 2 onions, halved lengthwise, thinly sliced crosswise (use your food processor (affiliate link) for this to make it easier)
  • 1 1/2 pounds assorted wild mushrooms (such as crimini, oyster, chanterelle, or stemmed shiitake), sliced
  • 6 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1/2 cup dry white wine
  • 1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary (fresh thyme is really tasty in this as well)
  • Olive oil
  • 3 cups grated Fontina* cheese (about 10 ounces)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Follow procedure for pizza dough.

Melt 2 tablespoons butter with 1 tablespoons olive oil in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add onions and a pinch of kosher salt (affiliate link) and sauté until golden, tossing frequently about 35 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.

Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter with 1 teaspoon olive oil in the same skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms, garlic, and shallot. Sauté about 10-15 minutes until golden**. Add wine and simmer until almost all liquid is absorbed, stirring frequently, about 13 minutes. Add rosemary; season with salt and pepper.

Top 1/4 onion mixture on each crust, arrange 1/4 mushroom mixture on top of onions and top with Fontina cheese. Drizzle more olive oil on top of pizza. Pepper to taste.

Follow instruction for pizza dough on cooking. Be sure to use parchment paper (affiliate link) as instructed in the pizza dough recipe, it helps it slide off the cookie sheet onto the preheated cookie sheet. Bake for approximately 12 minutes, until crust is crispy and cheese is golden.

*be sure to buy Italian style Fontina vs. Danish Fontina. The Danish variety is too mild and soft for the flavors of this pizza. Goat cheese would be a good substitute.

** mushrooms go through ‘phases’ while cooking, pay attention to them, at first, they will suck up all the butter and oil in the pan, that’s a-okay. Next, they will exude a ton of moisture, that’s good too, but you’re not done yet. Let that exuded liquid evaporate and then the mushrooms will get nicely browned, then and only then, add the wine and scrape up any bits on the bottom of the pan with a flat wooden spoon.

  • The onions and mushrooms can be prepared a day to two ahead of time.
  • Brown button mushrooms will work just fine in this recipe, but wild mushrooms have a bit more deep flavor, and they have pretty shapes when sliced!

I'd love it if you shared photos of your finished dish! Tag me and I'll return the favor. Enjoy!

Tag @shecooksdesign on the Insta and hashtag it #shecooksdesign

Filed Under: Dinner Tagged With: 30-Days No-Processed Foods, Fontina, mushroom pizza, Rosemary, white whole wheat pizza crust, Wild Mushroom Pizza with Caramelized Onions

Previous Post: « White Whole Wheat Pizza Dough
Next Post: Homemade Chicken Stock »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. brightrootskitchen

    February 11, 2019 at 10:08 pm

    That crust looks amazing! Plus the perfectly caramelized onions, I’ll bet this gets eaten really quickly when you make it. Definitely want to try your dough recipe!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe rating 5 Stars 4 Stars 3 Stars 2 Stars 1 Star

Primary Sidebar

Social

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest

Footer

Social

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
yukon gold potato and a green onion
Leek and Potato Soup photo in the bowl
Vertical overhead shot of Seedy Irish Brown Bread
photo of wholemeal flour in a large mason jar
close up overhead shot of Irish Cheddar with Guinness Mac and Cheese

Copyright © 2025 · shecooks.design