Calling all seafood lovers! This pie is just for you! This delectable seafood pizza is full of bold flavors, featuring shrimp and scallops sauteed with garlic until they’re succulent and tender. They’re sprinkled onto a layer of seasoned ricotta cheese, then topped with gooey mozzarella, red onion and herbs. Right before serving, drizzle with a warm garlic butter and it’s a little bit of heaven!
Ingredients in seafood pizza
Seafood pizza is simply any pizza topped with fish or shellfish. Both a shrimp pizza and anchovy pizza qualify under that definition. But some pizzerias serve a pie that’s topped with a mix of different types of seafood, which is what we went for here. We used a mix of shrimp and scallops, chopped into pieces so you can get a juicy burst in each bite. Here’s what you’ll need:
1 recipe Best Pizza Dough Garlic Shrimp Scallops Olive oil Ricotta cheese Salt and pepper Mozzarella and Parmesan cheese Dried oregano Red onion Butter Chopped parsley, for garnish
Some notes on the scallops
We were hoping to find bay scallops for this seafood pizza. Bay scallops are harvested on the East coast of American; they’re smaller than sea scallops and their flavor is sweeter and more tender. However, we had a very hard time finding bay scallops! Instead, we decided to use sea scallops and chopped them into 1/4-inch pieces. If you have access to bay scallops, you can certainly use them here, keeping them whole since they are smaller and don’t need to be chopped.
Seafood pizza sauce
This seafood pizza has a similar sauce to this Pizza Bianca, aka white pizza. It’s a seasoned sauce of ricotta cheese, made by simply mixing the ricotta with salt and pepper and spreading it over the dough. Do you prefer a red pizza sauce? You can do that too! Simply swap in ⅓ cup of our quick homemade pizza sauce. It takes just 5 minutes to whip up, no cooking required.
Pizza dough recipes
The best way to make a seafood pizza? With homemade pizza dough! You can use purchased dough if you like, but the best tasting pizza is made with homemade dough. Here are a few of the options we’ve developed over the years, each with their own pros and cons:
Best Pizza Dough (top choice): This is our best oven pizza dough! It works best with a pizza stone in a standard oven. Thin Crust Pizza Dough: This one is tasty and even easier; you can roll out the dough instead of stretching it. Pizza Oven Dough: This dough recipe is optimized for a pizza oven. Gluten Free Pizza Dough: If you’ve got gluten-free eaters, this one makes it work for everyone. Pan Pizza: Use this recipe to make a single pizza in a cast-iron skillet, without special tools. Sheet Pan Pizza: This simple recipe makes the equivalent of two pizzas in a sheet pan, without special tools.
Pizza making tools
If you choose our best pizza dough or thin crust dough, you’ll need a pizza stone and peel for this recipe. If you’re using a pizza oven, it typically comes with its own pizza peel that can withstand the high temperatures. Here are some notes on these tools:
Pizza stone: Baking on a pizza stones makes the crust crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside. Here’s the pizza stone we recommend! Pizza peel: A pizza peel is a paddle that slides the pie onto the hot stone in the oven. We recommend this standard pizza peel or even better this conveyor pizza peel, which makes transferring to the oven a breeze. Pizza oven (optional): An outdoor pizza oven makes the absolute best pizza! We’ve used both the Ooni pizza oven and the ROCCBOX; the ROCCBOX is our preference.
More pizza recipes
This seafood pizza recipe is a fun way to impress everyone around the table: it tastes like it’s from your favorite pizzeria! Here are a few more pizza recipes you’ll love:
Go for classic Homemade Margherita Pizza or Quattro Formaggi Pizza Try Olive Pizza and Red Pepper Pizza Opt for Greek Pizza with Feta or Shrimp Pizza Try a Broccoli 3 Cheese Pizza
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