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How to choose shrimp

Shrimp in stores are usually sold frozen and come in 3 varieties.

Name of shrimp	Length
Brindle	5-7 cm
Royal	10-11 cm
Atlantic	8-9 cm

Any of the above are suitable for making pizza, but the larger they are, the better. It is more convenient to gut large shrimp during cooking. They are juicy, meaty, and their shells produce more juice. Shrimp pizza, a homemade recipe made from simple ingredients, requires high-quality seafood.

To choose suitable shrimp, you need to adhere to a number of general rules:

One of the main drawbacks of shrimp is the black heads. If they are dark in color, this means that the shrimp were not frozen for a long time after being caught and rotting processes have already begun in their heads.
On the shelves you can choose shrimp with their heads and tails cut off. They are usually more expensive. This type of seafood is semi-finished and will save cutting time.
Unpeeled shrimp with shells are suitable for making pizza.
The shrimp should be a rich pink color, not pale or white.

The shrimp carcass should be smooth and not loose. Dents and irregularities on the shrimp’s body indicate that it has been defrosted many times.
Defrosted shrimp should be firm or moderately soft in order to bake or boil well.
You should pay attention to the expiration date of the product, and there should be no snow inside the package.

Pizza with shrimp

Have you ever thought about what are the most ancient dishes invented by mankind? By the way, pizza is one of these dishes! The ancient Romans invented serving food on slices of bread.

Pizza is versatile and can be served as an appetizer or main course. Homemade pizza is simply delicious! After all, the filling can be very different so that it can please all participants in the feast.

One of the most interesting options is shrimp pizza. The recipe for this pizza comes from the Mediterranean. After all, pizza itself comes from Italy, where seafood is used very often in cooking.

If you are preparing pizza “from start to finish”, without ready-made ingredients purchased in advance, then it will be useful to remind you how to make pizza dough: mix 350 g of flour with 50 ml of olive oil, dilute with a glass of water, add half a spoonful of salt and sugar and, of course, yeast. The dough should sit in a warm place (usually an hour is enough for it to rise). By the way, you can also mix spices into the dough.

The pizza base is always topped with tomato sauce, and finally, the fun part is the pizza topping! Here, too, you can give free rein to your creativity, here are the three easiest ways to prepare a wonderful dish called “pizza with shrimp”: Option 1 For the filling, take 20 boiled and peeled shrimp, 200 g of hard cheese (for example, Mozzarella), 50 g of capers . Anchovies or mussels are also ideal here, because seafood can be perfectly combined with each other.

Pizza with shrimp can be decorated with dill, and if you don’t stop there, you can add a traditional Italian spice - basil. Salt, by the way, can also be used to preserve all the charm of Mediterranean cuisine: buy sea salt for your pizza!

Option 2

Take 100 g of sun-dried tomatoes, 100 g of cheese, 250 g of shrimp, finely chopped green onions and cut the pineapple into slices. In this option, it is recommended to use not hard cheese, as usual in pizza, but soft Mascarpone. However, keep in mind that the combination of shrimp with soft cheese itself is rather bland, so we recommend using hot tomato sauce and a lot of black pepper. Pizza with shrimp and pineapple will surprise you with the unusualness of its taste, but it will not disappoint! Option 3

Take 200 g of shrimp, 1 red chili pepper (it should be de-seeded and chopped), finely chopped green onions (so that the onion note does not introduce dissonance, you don’t need a lot of onions for this option, three will be enough for a large pizza), half a peeled and chopped cucumber, 1 lime and 75 g of rocket salad.

Prepare in this order: drizzle the pizza base with olive oil and quickly bake until crispy, in the meantime, mix the shrimp with vegetables and lime zest, put the filling on the base and place the salad on top.

General recommendations for making pizza:

— the oven needs to be preheated to a temperature of 200-250 degrees;

— bake the pizza for 15-20 minutes;

Shrimp pizza is ready!

Shrimp pizza is usually served on a large wooden platter, pre-sliced. Please note that if the pizza is very hot, the knife will pull the melted cheese along with it. To make the sliced pizza pieces nice and neat, purchase a special knife with a round blade.

If you are serving pizza as a main course, then chicken wings, hot chips or stuffed peppers can be a side dish.

The best drinks to serve with pizza are fruit juice (any kind), iced tea, dark or light beer (by the way, one of the rare cases when beer can be warm is when you serve cold pizza). Of course, the most democratic options are also acceptable - for example, you can wash down pizza with carbonated or regular water.

Classic recipe

Pizza with shrimp is usually baked over wood in special equipped ovens, but there are recipes for making it at home. The taste of such a pizza greatly depends on the shrimp that are used as a filling. The taste of pizza also depends on the thickness of the dough and the heat conditions of the oven where it is baked. When cooking at home, you can use an oven heated to a temperature of 160°-180°.

What ingredients will you need?

Shrimp pizza, a recipe for which is prepared at home in several stages, will appeal to those who love seafood.

The presented composition of ingredients is designed for 1 large or 2 small pizzas:

Flour – 300 g.
Yeast – 7-10 g.
Sugar – 2 tsp.
Salt – 2 tsp.
Olive oil – 300 g.
Water – 200 g.
Raw shrimp – 500 g.
Garlic – 2-3 teeth.
Curd cheese – 200 g.
Mozzarella cheese – 200 g.
Parmesan cheese – 100 g.

Step-by-step cooking process

The pizza preparation process can be divided into 2 stages: preparing and assembling the ingredients.

Preparing Ingredients

In the classic recipe, pizza is cooked in the oven on a baking sheet or a special round metal spatula. The main difficulty of the process is that during cooking, a special shrimp sauce will be formed from food processing, which will need to be added to the pizza.

First you need to prepare the pizza dough. You should take a container where the dough will be mixed and pour flour into it. You can use a saucepan or iron bowl. The main thing is that it is wide and has high edges. Then, while creating the mixture, the ingredients will not spill out.
Then you need to open the package of yeast and pour the contents into the flour. It is worth adding 7-10 g of yeast. If you add more, the dough will swell more and become fluffier, but if you add more yeast, it may bubble and crumble.
Then add 2 tsp to the mixing container. sugar, 1 tsp. salt and 1 tbsp. l. olive oil.
Next, you need to pour a glass of water into the preparation.
The entire contents of the container must be thoroughly stirred with a spoon or wooden spatula. The mixture may seem runny at first, but will thicken with careful stirring. You need to mix the dough until all the lumps of flour soften and the workpiece turns into a homogeneous mass. The finished dough should stick slightly to your hands and be moist.
As soon as the lump of text is ready, the surface of the table or cutting board must be covered with a thin layer of flour. Then you need to place the dough on top of it and start kneading it vigorously for 5-10 minutes. Knead the lump of dough until completely homogeneous.
As soon as the dough has become soft, you need to let it brew.
To do this, you need to take a small saucepan, cover its bottom with a thin layer of olive oil and apply it to the inside walls.
Then a lump of dough should be placed inside the pan, coated with olive oil on top and left for 20-30 minutes. Sprout in a warm place under a covered lid.
While the dough is rising and infusing, you can start preparing the shrimp. Shrimp should be raw, not boiled or frozen. If the shrimp were previously in the refrigerator, they must be thawed and then placed in cold water for 5-10 minutes. so that they get wet.
Before cutting, shrimp should be rinsed under cold water and placed on a specially prepared surface.
You need to remove the shells from the shrimp and separate the heads and tails from the carcasses. The shells should be saved to create a special shrimp sauce.
Then coat the surface of the pan with a thin layer of olive oil and heat over low heat.
Pour the peeled shrimp shells into a heated frying pan and fry over low heat for 5-10 minutes. stirring occasionally. The shells should become crumbly and crispy. The heat and the juices released from the shells will transform the oil into the shrimp gravy needed to enhance the flavor.
After preparing the shells, the carcass of each shrimp must be ripped open and carefully gutted without damaging the meat. Large shrimp almost always have giblets inside, which can ruin the taste of the pizza. They must be removed, and the shrimp carcass itself must be thoroughly rinsed under cold water.
Carefully pour the shrimp oil from the frying pan into a separate container and discard the stewed shells.
Next, the garlic cloves must be peeled and finely chopped into thin rings on a cutting board.
Then you need to pour the shrimp oil into the frying pan and carefully cover the entire surface with it.
Pour the garlic onto the heated surface of the frying pan and fry over medium heat for 3-5 minutes. until softened.
After cooking, the oil in which the garlic was stewed must be poured into a separate container, and the garlic should be poured onto another plate.
In a bowl with oil soaked in garlic and shrimp, add 2-3 tbsp. l. curd cheese to obtain the sauce, and then the workpiece should be thoroughly stirred.

Assembling the ingredients

All prepared ingredients must be collected in the correct sequence and proportions.

As soon as the dough has risen, it must be placed on a table or cutting board previously coated with a thin layer of flour. Even in the planted dough, small air bubbles may remain, but this will not prevent you from rolling it out.
The dough must be placed on the surface and rolled out to a flattened circle. While rolling tightly, periodically stretch along the edges and sprinkle with flour.
Then the dough must be carefully placed on a baking sheet, a round spatula or any other wide baking surface.
Next, you need to cover the top of the dough with the previously prepared garlic-shrimp sauce, spreading it evenly over the surface of the pizza. The dough should not be coated with sauce all the way to the edges to allow them to rise during baking and form an even outline. It will contain the melted cheese ingredients inside the pizza and prevent them from falling out.
Then the surface of the pizza should be sprinkled with fried garlic.
After garlic, you need to carefully place shrimp on the surface of the dough. For convenience, the shrimp can be finely chopped and their parts evenly distributed around the circumference.
Next, you need to apply a layer of Mozzarella cheese to the surface of the pizza in neat, even pieces.
As the last top layer, for a richer taste, you can add shavings of Parmesan cheese, grated on a coarse grater, to the pizza.
After this, the oven should be heated to a temperature of 160°-180° and the workpiece should be placed inside for 5-6 minutes.

As it cooks, the cheese will melt and infuse the dough, making it soft and rich. The shrimp will cook and release juice, which will mix with the sauce and give the dish an appetizing taste. The pizza should be moist. The main thing is not to dry it out in the oven.

What can I add?

Pizza with shrimp, the recipe for which at home is designed to prepare servings for 3-4 people, can be supplemented with other seafood:

You can add arugula to the sauce during cooking, after chopping it. You can also sprinkle arugula on the pizza before placing it in the oven. Rucolla is a seasoning that goes well with the taste of cheese and helps to bring it out brighter.
You can add squid to shrimp on pizza. It is better to use fresh squid meat, which is sold as semi-finished products. You need to add squid to the pizza along with shrimp at the stage of laying the ingredients on top of the dough. The presence of additional ingredients diversifies the taste of the dish.
More exotic shrimp pizza recipes include the option of adding pineapples to the dish. They must be added fresh to the pizza. The pineapple pulp should be finely chopped. Pineapples will add sweetish tones to the taste of pizza and make it even juicier, so you need to bake the dough for 1-2 minutes longer.

Mushrooms also pair well with cheese and make a great addition to shrimp pizza. They must be fresh and not pickled. You need to add mushrooms at the stage of collecting ingredients after adding shrimp. You can use any type of mushroom to taste. Usually these are champignons, boletus or honey mushrooms.

Rules for serving and decoration

Pizza is usually served on a wide dish or wooden tray, having previously been cut into small triangular-shaped portions into sectors of the circle. You can save a little Parmesan cheese for decoration and avoid pouring it all over the pizza when assembling the ingredients. Some of the cheese shavings can be poured onto the finished pizza slices for beauty so that they drown in the shrimp sauce.

Creamy sauce for shrimp pizza

A wonderful addition to any pizza is, of course, the sauce. Creamy sauce goes better with shrimp, so let's talk about it. It's not at all difficult to do. The result will be a very tender, satisfying and moderately spicy sauce.

Let us immediately warn you that this sauce is unlikely to be suitable for pizza with smoked meats; serve it only with a dish with seafood.

Ingredients:

butter - 2 tablespoons,
garlic cloves – 6-8 pieces,
white wheat flour - 1 tablespoon,
cream – 1 glass,
Parmesan cheese – 100 g.

Preparation:

1. Melt butter in a hot frying pan. Place 3-4 peeled and chopped garlic cloves in it. Fry the garlic for a few minutes, then you can throw it away, it has given up all its flavor to the butter and now we no longer need it.

2. Place flour in oil and fry until slightly creamy.

3. Pour the cream into the pan and, stirring constantly, bring until thickened.

4. Grate the Parmesan cheese on a fine grater and chop 3-4 cloves of garlic through a garlic press. At the very end, add cheese and garlic to the pan, mix everything well again and you can pour it into the gravy boat. The sauce should be thick and viscous in consistency.

Choose the recipe you like, cook pizza using it, invite guests and enjoy. Bon appetit!

Hello dear friends, visitors of our site, Natalia is with you. Today we will prepare such a delicious dish as pizza with shrimp.

Homemade pizza in the oven is truly hearty and tasty, especially if it is prepared by skillful hands.

This dish differs noticeably in the quantity and quality (very important!) of ingredients, and cannot be compared with those pizzas that are ordered or served in fast food restaurants.

The traditional filling of this dish is cheese, sausage and tomatoes, but for those who love seafood, special dishes have been developed based on a versatile ingredient such as shrimp.

Attention! Shrimp is a valuable product that contains a lot of useful substances, enriched with animal proteins and fats, but in order for them to be tasty, they cannot be digested. Otherwise, the shrimp meat will turn out rubbery.

For pizza, it is best to use fresh frozen shrimp. Their size does not matter, it is important that they are simply boiled.

In the traditional version of this dish, only yeast-free dough is used. Then it turns out not only thin, but also crispy, but you must constantly monitor the baking so that your pizza does not burn.

Pizza with shrimp in a frying pan

Shrimp pizza, a recipe for which is usually prepared in the oven at home, can also be prepared in a frying pan. With this cooking method, the size of the pizza and the thickness of the dough directly depend on the pan. Such pizza, as a rule, turns out smaller than in the oven, but the dough in it comes out thicker.

What ingredients will you need?

Ingredients for 1-2 pizzas:

Raw shrimp – 500 g.
Flour – 200 g.
Mascarone cheese – 100 g.
Parmesan cheese – 100 g.
Water – 300 ml.
Salt – 1 tsp.
Sugar – 2 tsp.
Olive oil – 1 tbsp. l.
Yeast – 7 g.
Garlic – 4 cloves.

Step-by-step cooking process

A wide frying pan with a thick bottom and high walls is suitable for cooking. The creation of such a pizza, as in the case of the oven recipe, consists of two stages.

Preparing Ingredients

Preparing the ingredients takes 10-15 minutes. excluding the time required to prepare the dough.

First, you need to sift the flour into a mixing container to avoid lumps. A high-sided saucepan or metal bowl will do. The main thing is that the container is wide.
Then you need to add yeast to the flour.
Afterwards, add 2 tsp of sugar to the ingredients. and 1 tsp. salt.
Next, you need to pour 1 tbsp into the workpiece. l. olive oil and a glass of water. Before this, the water must first be brought to boiling temperature and allowed to cool for 10-15 minutes.
You need to knead the dough for 15-20 minutes. using a mixer or by hand. When kneading by hand, the dough must be pressed in a pan and kneaded until it turns into a thick, homogeneous mass.
Next, you need to take a clean mixing container, pour olive oil into it and carefully lubricate the bottom and walls with it.
Place the dough inside the container, grease it with olive oil. After this, the dough piece should be covered with a lid or cling film and left to rise for 30 minutes.
While the dough is rising, you need to make shrimp. If the shrimp are frozen, they should be thawed and washed thoroughly, and then placed in a container with water to soak.
The shrimp must be cleaned and the carcasses separated from the tail and heads. Shrimp shells should be saved and placed in a separate bowl. Also, when cleaning shrimp, you need to pay attention to the presence of entrails. All giblets must be removed.
Then you need to peel the garlic and cut the cloves into small rings. Garlic should not be coarsely chopped, but it should also not be crushed into porridge, otherwise it will take away the taste.
The surface of the pan should be coated with olive oil and heated over low heat.
Pour the shrimp shells into a heated frying pan and fry over medium heat for 3-4 minutes. until they become crispy.
After this, the oil in which the shells were fried must be drained from the frying pan into a separate bowl and strained through a sieve.
Then the resulting shrimp oil must be returned to the frying pan, add garlic to it and fry until light golden brown over medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
After cooking the garlic, the oil must also be drained from the frying pan into a separate container, straining through a sieve.
Add 200 g of mascarone cheese to a bowl with butter and mix thoroughly with a spoon or a special spatula until thick. If necessary, the workpiece can be salted.

Assembling the ingredients

Once the dough has risen, you can start shaping the pizza:

To roll out the dough, place it on a table or cutting board that has been previously sprinkled with a thin layer of flour.
Then you need to gently press the lump of dough with your hands on all sides to give it an even shape, then flatten it and roll it out to the size of the surface of the frying pan. To create the desired shape, you can turn the pan over, attach it to the dough and press it with the sides. Then the dough needs to be cut along the contour, forming an even circle.
Before placing the workpiece, the bottom of the pan must be well greased with olive oil so that the dough from below does not burn.
Then the dough should be carefully placed on the surface of the frying pan, evenly distributed over the area so that it does not wrinkle anywhere. Everywhere in the dough you need to straighten out all the folds.
Then the surface of the dough must be carefully greased with the previously prepared cheese and shrimp sauce.
On top of the spread layer you need to sprinkle Parmesan cheese, grated on a coarse grater, along with fried garlic.
Next, distribute the shrimp evenly along the entire surface of the pizza.
Pizza should be cooked over low heat for 7-10 minutes. under a closed lid. The ingredients must not be turned over; they must be baked in their own juices and on a layer of butter until cooked and without burning.

The article describes in detail the recipe for making shrimp pizza at home.
The cheese will quickly melt, saturate all layers of dough and moisten the pizza, allowing it to bake longer and better, and not burn.

Shrimp pizza (red)

Red pizza means that it is prepared using red or tomato sauce. There is also white pizza with shrimp. But today with tomato sauce. I rolled out the dough for this pizza very thin. In our family, we like thin pizza better. The exception is pizza with stuffing, the so-called “stuffed”.

From the given amount of ingredients, you get two large thin pizzas, about 35 cm in size. If you want to make one pizza (thin), take half the ingredients for the dough or, which I think is better, pack the other half of the dough in a freezer bag or container and put it in freezer. You can use it to make pizza, flat bread or focaccia. I like to use large shrimp for pizza, as small ones can dry out at high baking temperatures. You take a bite of pizza, the juicy shrimp breaks, the cheese stretches, the dough crunches, mixing with tomato sauce and vegetables... What else do you need?

Ingredients

Dough for two thin large pizzas:

400 g flour
2 tsp dry yeast
¾ tsp salt
2 tbsp. olive oil
250 ml warm water
A little flour for rolling out the dough
Cornmeal for dusting the baking sheet

Filling:

¾ -1 cup of pizza sauce (if the sauce is smooth, use ¾
, if in pieces, 1 cup or to taste)
200-250 g grated mozzarella cheese
1 medium sweet pepper, cut into strips or slices
½ small onion, cut into strips or slices (preferably sweet or red)
1 chili pepper, finely chopped (optional)
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
18-22 large raw shrimp, peeled
Salt
Ground black pepper

1 cup = 240 ml

Preparation:

Prepare the dough.

Stir yeast in warm water. Add salt and yeast solution to the flour. Knead the dough using a mixer or by hand. Add oil. Stir.

Let the dough rest for about 45 minutes, covering it with cling film or a towel. The dough should rise well.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out half the dough into a circle measuring 33-35cm.

Sprinkle the baking sheet with cornmeal (if you don't have cornmeal, you can use semolina, ground crackers or wheat flour). Transfer the dough circle to a baking sheet.

Preheat the oven to 230-250 C (450-475 F).

Brush the dough base with tomato sauce, leaving the edges free.

Place cheese on the sauce, then bell pepper, chili pepper and onion.

Sprinkle with garlic.

Place shrimp, lightly salted and sprinkled with black pepper.

Bake the pizza for about 15 minutes until the dough is lightly browned and the shrimp are pink. ready.

Advice:

The dough is perfectly prepared in the bread machine in the Pizza mode.

Cook with pleasure!

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Useful tips

You don't have to prepare the dough yourself. You can pre-purchase ready-made cakes or semi-finished products. This will save time for preparation, but it is best to prepare the dough by hand. Thus, you can regulate its splendor and thickness, adjusting it to the ingredients and independently setting its taste, fat content and richness.
The larger the shrimp, the easier it is to cut them, and the juicier and tastier the pizza will be. It is recommended to use tiger shrimp as part of the ingredients. Larger shrimp are also easier to clean and gut.
When cutting up the shrimp, you can leave the heads and serve them along with the prepared pizza slices. Particularly discerning gourmets eat them by sucking out the contents.
If you use shrimp oil when you re-fry the ingredients, there may be little left over. This oil must be used carefully, without spilling a drop, but if there is too little of it, you can add 1 tsp to it. olive oil, but not more, otherwise it will spoil the taste.
You can roll out the dough roughly. It is strong enough and will not tear.
To make the dough rise faster, you need to use instant yeast.
To prepare pizza, it is better to use unpeeled shrimp, so that during the cooking process you can extract juice from the shells, which will enrich the taste of the sauce.
To add a bitter taste to the pizza, the garlic can be fried until brown.

Pizza with shrimp at home can be prepared according to the recipe and with other seafood. You can add squid and octopus to the ingredients. Small shrimp will also work, but they must be in their shells. If the shrimp are already cut and without shells, then the pizza may lose some of its taste.