BBQ Shrimp Pizza with Shaved Brussel Sprouts
Category
Appetizers and Snacks
Fish and Seafood
Pizza is easily made with Trader Joe's Herb Pizza Dough. In just 1 hour, I have amazed my friends with this delicious crispy thin pizza. If you have a Pizza Stone, in the oven or on the grill makes it easy and crisp.
Don't forget, mascarpone cheese on the bottom after lightly oil brushed pizza gets it creamy; just ask Mozza!
Apple Smoked Bacon and pan roasted shaved Brussels sprouts makes it yummy with the shrimp.
Trader Joe's package makes two individual pizzas.
Using a Pizza Peel is best for transition of pizzas.
Persons
4
Serving Size
2 slices
Ingredients
- 1 Herbed Pizza Dough Trader Joe's
- 8 Large shrimp, shelled and deveined, diced in chunks
- 1-2 Tbsp minced garlic
- 6-8 medium Brussels sprouts, sliced thin
- 2 strips of Apple Smoked Bacon, cooked and diced
- 3 Tbsp mascarpone cheese
- 6 oz-8 oz Quarto Cheese (Trader Joe's)
- Olive oil to brush and cook
- Ground corn meal
- Pepper
- Salt
- Sauce Goddess Sweet Heat Spice
Instructions
- For the dough: follow the dough instructions, about 1/2 hour resting from fridge before splitting into 2 pizzas.
- Meanwhile, cook garlic in 4 TBS olive oil over medium high heat for 30 seconds.
- Add shaved Brussels sprouts.
- Reduce heat to medium, and lightly caramelize, about 2-3 minutes.
- Remove from heat.
- Cook the bacon in another pan or on grill to crispy, but not too brown.
- Heat the oven or grill to 450 degrees.
- Roll out dough or double-fist shape your pizza.
- Transfer to a cornmeal crusted pizza peel.
- Note: I prefer to add ground corn meal (even using a rolling pin to grind slightly more) to the bottom of the work surface or pizza peel. I build my pizza on the pizza peel for easy transition.
- Brush lightly to edges.
- Add dollops of mascarpone and spread with the back of a spoon gently spreading to cover the entire pizza.
- Add the quarto cheese evenly.
- Add the Brussels sprouts, bacon and shrimp chunks.
- Lightly salt if preferred. Add ground pepper if preferred.
- And finally add 2-4 TBS of Sweet Heat for desired depth of flavor!
- Slide the pizza onto the stone.
- Cook pizza until crisp bubbling, brown edges, check the bottom by using a metal spatula.
- Remove with cleaned pizza peel. Rest 3-5 min before making slices.
