Seven Stunning Ricotta Crostini Recipes

Mediterranean cuisine is synonymous with fresh, high-quality cheeses and vegetables made in simple preparations to highlight their unique flavors.  Our Ricotta Crostini Recipe is a great example of how decadent a humble slice of bread with good ricotta cheese can be!

Delicious Ricotta Cheese

Ricotta cheese is best known for delivering the sweet richness of cheesecake, calzones, manicotti, gnocchi, and lasagna. Still, few people know just how truly delicious ricotta cheese is when simply prepared with crostini or toast and a variety of toppings.

We like to prepare our Ricotta Crostini Recipe with fresh crusty bread (try whole wheat, sourdough, country, multigrain, or ciabatta), high-quality ricotta cheese, and an assortment of sweet and savory mix-ins from which our family can build their own toasted sandwiches.

Easy Appetizer or Light dinner

Breakfast, lunch, or dinner are good times to try some sweet add-ins to Ricotta Toast like fresh berries, orange segments, whole-fruit jam, chocolate shavings, or honey.  Savory mix-ins like sliced almonds and crushed pistachios, or a spoonful of matbucha, pesto, or olive tapenade, can punch up the sweetness of the ricotta cheese to create a memorable crostini recipe.

Ricotta Crostini Suggested Toppings

• Fresh Tomatoes, Basil, and Za'atar
• Nectarines, or Plums with Honey and Almonds
• Pears or apples with Honey and Pistachios
• Roasted Grapes, Black Pepper and Salt
• Fresh Figs, Honey, Pistachios, Sea Salt
• Blood Orange with hazelnuts and Maple Syrup
• Olives, Sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil and olive oil

A Little Ricotta Cheese History

Like other modern cheeses, ricotta can be made from sheep, goat, or water buffalo milk.   It was first developed in ancient Rome as a means to use up the whey by-product created in the production of rennet-based cheeses.  The Romans blended whey with fresh milk to create the distinct creamy mixture that we know today, and it wasn't long before the new cheese became a favorite of the noble classes.

Serving Suggestions

We like to serve Ricotta Toast with a fresh salad that features fruit like our Avocado Mango Salad, Feta Watermelon Salad , our delicious Warm Blood Orange- Avocado Pistachio Salad or our filling Spinach Strawberry Salad with Quinoa . Pair the Ricotta Crostini and salad with a mouth-watering drink like our Watermelon Lemonade or Nectarine Lemonade to brighten the ricotta and you’ll have an easy, simple yet sophisticated meal worthy of a king!

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