Shrimp Scampi Pizza
- 1/2 sticks Unsalted Butter
- 2 cloves Garlic, Grated
- 1/2 teaspoons Red Chili Flakes
- 1/4 cups White Wine
- 12 whole Shrimp, Peeled And Deveined
- 1 whole Ball Of Pizza Dough (enough To Make A Large Size Pizza)
- 2 cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
- 2 Tablespoons Italian Flat Leaf Parsley, Roughly Chopped
- Set your oven rack close to the top of the oven.
- Preheat your oven and the pizza stone (if you have one) to 500 F. Let the oven and pizza stone preheat until you prepare all of the remaining items.
- Into a small pot over medium heat, add the butter and let this melt.
- Skim off any foam from the top and discard.
- If you want to strain the butter into a bowl through a fine mesh sieve, you can go that route.
- But for this recipe, any of the solid fats that might remain are fine.
- Reduce the heat to low, and add the garlic, chili flakes, wine and shrimp.
- Poach the shrimp just until they become opaque, about 5 minutes on low heat.
- Stretch out your pizza dough so that its roughly a 14 inch pizza size.
- Once stretched, remove the stone from the oven and carefully place the dough on top.
- Add the cheese, the place the shrimp on top of the pizza.
- Drizzle with a few tablespoons of the garlic butter.
- Place the stone back into the oven, and cook for about 15 minutes, or until the pizza dough is golden and everything is cooked through.
- Remove the pizza from the oven and place onto a wire rack.
- Let the pizza cool for about 5 minutes, then shower with the parsley.
- Slice and serve.
- I ended up making this pizza only because I had some leftover butter to use up.
- Well, not only that, but my wife (and I for that matter) really loves shrimp scampi.
- I would normally eat this with some pasta, or just the shrimp by itself, but I decided to go the pizza route this time.
- And this pizza was incredible to say the least.
- I served my wife the first piece and I heard her from afar talking to herself with food umms and ahhs.
- I knew this was going to be great.
- The smell of the garlic buttered shrimp, poached with that white wine was apparent right off of the bat.
- And the cheese just held things together and did not interfere much with the shrimp.
- I know I say this from time to time, but this pizza was really, really good.
butter, garlic, red chili flakes, white wine, shrimp, enough, mozzarella cheese, italian flat leaf
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/shrimp-scampi-pizza-2/ (may not work)