Seafood Pizza with a Pink Sauce
It has been a minute but I have a new recipe for you! Today’s recipe is a delicious Seafood Pizza with a Pink Sauce. Here you have a traditional golden pizza crust covered with a tangy and creamy fire roasted tomato sauce then topped with tender salmon, juicy shrimp, thick cut bacon and a good helping of cheese. It is still pizza but a bit bougie. If you want to be casually extra the next time you are making a pizza dinner, this recipe is the one to make.
Some tips before you begin:
- The Dough can be store bought. I got mine from Wegmans but their though is pretty big. So if using their’s I will suggest using about 3/4 of it. (And maybe using the extra dough for a small pizza on the side, garlic knots or something.) If you opt for making your own dough, you can use the recipe I used for my Pesto Pizza or any recipe of your choice.
- Avoid overcooking the shrimp and salmon. For the shrimp, I seasoned it thoroughly then sautée it for about 2-3 minutes per side. For the salmon, I seasoned it in the same way then cooked it in a pan for about 3 to 4 minutes per side. You can also bake them (shrimp for about 10 mins and salmon for about 12 mins at 350ºF). And you can make them a day or so ahead of time. Either way you want them to be cooked but not to the point of getting rubbery or dry after you’ve baked the pizza.
- The seafood toppings and amount of cheese you use is up to you. Pizza is one of those foods where it really is based on what you have and what you like. You can add scallops, calamari, crab meat or other seafood to this. You can also add mushrooms, olives, onions or other toppings to your pizza. And you can add more or less cheese to it. It is your pizza, customize it to your liking.
All right, you are ready. Go try my Seafood Pizza with a Pink Sauce now!
Seafood Pizza with a Pink Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 large pizza crust about 16 to 20 oz
- fire roasted tomatoes pink sauce recipe below
- 2 cups grated cheese (pizza cheese blend or mozzarella) or to taste
- ⅓ cup grated parmesan or asiago cheese
- 4-6 oz shrimp cooked and seasoned to taste
- 6-8 oz salmon cooked and seasoned to taste then cut into chunks
- 3-5 oz bacon cooked and chopped
- crushed red pepper to taste
The Sauce
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 14.5 oz fire roasted tomatoes can
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp dried oregano
- ½ tsp dried basil
- ¼ tsp white or black pepper
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425ºF
Make the Sauce
- Heat up oil in a large pan over medium high heat then add tomatoes and stir.
- Once tomatoes are heated and beginning to sizzle, pour in heavy cream and stir to combine.
- Next add in garlic powder, oregano, basil, pepper and salt to taste. Stir until fully combined.
- After sauce has thickened to you liking or about 3 to 5 minutes of cooking, taste for salt and adjust as needed then turn the heat off.
Assemble
- Grease a large pizza pan. Spread your dough out by holding it up and pulling the sides out evenly then laying it at the center of your greased pan and pushing/pulling it out to the edge of the pan while turning the pan around. You can also roll it out with a rolling pin.
- Once dough is spread out on the pan, pour your sauce on it and spread it out as evenly as you can leaving about ¾ inch uncovered.
- Next top it with about half of your cheese followed by shrimp, salmon chunks and bacon.
- Cover with the remaining cheese and parmesan/asiago the crushed red pepper.
Cook
- Place pizza in oven and bake for about 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is bubbling.
- Let pizza cool slightly before cutting into 8 slices and serving.
