Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Buffalo Shrimp Pizza

So the other day on the Today Show, Martha Stewart made these Buffalo Shrimp, they looked super tasty... I had this idea to turn it into a pizza.  Spicy shrimp with blue cheese, all on top of my favorite pizza dough.  Sounds weird, well it was pretty tasty.  Here's how to make it...

Ingredients:
12 U-15 shrimp, shelled and deveined
1/4 cup of a BBQ spice rub (I mixed paprika with cayenne, salt, pepper, sugar)
1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella
1/2 cup sliced Point Reyes Blue Cheese
1/4 of a red onion, thinly sliced
1 T. olive oil
1 batch of Pizza Dough
1 T. chopped parsley

Set your oven to 500 degrees.  Marinate the shrimp in the spice rub for 30 minutes with a glug of olive oil.  Then place on a baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes at 400 degrees.  Hold for assembly.   Next get your pizza stone floured.  Flour your hands and get your pizza dough ready by pulling the dough ball into a flat disk, pull gently from the middle until you've stretched it out as far as you think your stone can hole.  Then flop it onto your stone.   Pre-bake your dough for 5 minutes on 500 degrees.  Take the dough out and anoint with a tablespoon of olive oil.  Then spread out your mozza, then your blue then place the shrimp evenly, then sprinkle the onion.  Pop your pizza back in the oven for another 10 minutes or so.  I rotate the stone a quarter turn periodically so that it cooks evenly.  You want your dough really browned and the cheese bubbly.  The dough should look almost burned, but not totally scorched.  Then take out your 'za and sprinkle with parsley.  Ta-da!  Weird, and slightly reminiscent of buffalo wings.  So good.  Enjoy!

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