Fall as a Pizza: Butternut Squash, Caramelized Onion and Gruyere

If you are looking for a fall pizza recipe to change things up, then look no further then this beauty.  This pizza uses homemade dough (or you can use whatever store bought you'd like), roasted butternut squash with roasted garlic and onions and gruyere cheese.  There is no sauce and it is not needed.  The roasted squash gets creamy and sweet and the gruyere balances that sweetness perfectly.  I like to use applewood smoked gruyere, because that is all I can find and it adds such enormous flavor to the pizza.  Give this pizza a try for Halloween!

Fall Pizza
1 Butternut squash diced (you can peel if you'd like, but I don't like to do that)
1 head of garlic
1 onion sliced
8 oz applewood smoked gruyere cheese
Salt to taste
Olive Oil
1 lb pizza dough (homemade or store bought)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Put garlic in aluminum foil and drizzle about 1 tablespoon of olive oil over it.  Put the package in the oven and let it cook for about an hour, until the garlic is soft, set aside

While the garlic is in the oven, combine the diced squash and slice onions in a bowl.  Drizzle with about 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil and a generous amount of salt. Spread the mixture onto a foil lined pan (sprayed with cooking spray for extra insurance) and place in oven to cook for 35 minutes.

After the garlic and onions and squash are cooked and tender, turn the oven to 450 degrees.

Place the onions and squash into a large bowl.  Add the grated gruyere and squeeze out the garlic cloves and combine everything together.

Spread your pizza dough onto a well oiled pan.  Top the dough with the squash and gruyere mixture.  Bake for 15-20 minutes, let cool for about 10 minutes and enjoy!