Prawn Pizza

Two pizza slices on a white plate with herb garnish on top.

5 from 6 votes

Prawn Pizza is a quick and easy pizza recipe! With succulent prawns, tomato sauce and crispy edged pizza base with cheese topping.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Total Time20

Course: Dinner

Cuisine: Western

Keyword: prawn pizza

Servings:

Calories: 607kcal

Author: Adrianne

Ingredients

1 pizza base Note 1

Pizza sauce

400 grams/ 14.5 oz diced tomatoes Note 2
2 tbs tomato paste
2 tbs Worcestershire sauce
1 tbs garlic chunky, minced
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoon flat leaf parsely finely chopped with kitchen scissors
1 cup colby cheese freshly grated using a hand held or box grater
1 cup mozzarella cheese freshly grated using a hand held or box grater

Pizza topping

500 grams/ 16 oz prawns fully peeled included the tails removed and deveined

Garnish (optional)

flat leaf parsley leaves, cut from stems, roughly chopped

Instructions

Preheat the oven: preheat the oven to 180°C / 350-375°F / Gas Mark 4-5.
Pizza base: prepare your pizza base either by rolling, removing the packaging or cutting a bread loaf in half lengthways.
Pizza sauce: add the diced tomatoes, tomato pasta, worcestershire sauce, garlic, salt, pepper and parsley to a small bowl and stir to combine.
Prawns: fully peel the prawns including removing the tail and then slice the back of them open and remove the digestive track. Then pat dry with paper towel.
Sauce onto pizza: use a soup spoon to dollop the pizza sauce onto the pizza base. Then flip the spoon and use the back of it to spread the sauce out into a layer that reaches all the way to the edges of the pizza base.
Prawns into sauce: add the peeled prawns to the remaining sauce and stir to combine.
Cheese layer: sprinkle a layer of cheese over the top of the pizza sauce.
Prawns onto pizza: spread the sauce covered prawns out across the cheese layer.
Second cheese layer: sprinkle the remaining cheese over the top of the pizza.
Oven bake: transfer the pizza to a silicon mat over a baking rack. Then place the tray into the oven on the middle shelf and let the pizza cook for 10 minutes or until the prawns are bright orange and the cheese has melted. Note 3
To serve: use oven mitts to remove the baking tray from the oven and use a pair of tongs to help slide the pizza onto a cutting board. Then use a pizza wheel to slice the pizza into portions. Garnish with chopped flat leaf parsley and serve.

Notes

Note 1 - Pizza base: it can be so easy to use a store bought loaf of Turkish bread, Ciabatta or French bread to make pizza. You literally only need slice it in halves and it is good to go. However, feel free to use your favorite pizza base, each to their own in this regard.
Note 2 - Diced tomatoes: for my eagle eyed readers 🥰, 400 grams is actually 14.1 oz not 14.5. However, I specify this as I know that Walmart sell a 14.5 oz tin of diced tomatoes and there is no point in not using that full amount, it is a very close margin.
Note 3 - Pizza base: to crisp up the pizza base, I usually slide the pizza off any supporting tray onto the oven rack towards the end (5 minutes) of the cook time. This ensures that the crusts are crispy and the base firm and cooked nicely.
Note - Portion size: this is a filling and satisfying pizza! You will likely find that you would eat less of it than a thin and crispy pizza or other type of pizza topping combination. Hence I have used 4 portions for the whole pizza as it would be enough to be shared across 4 people/meals. If however, you are doing a thin base like a pita bread or naan then you might want to make 2 pizzas to feed 4 people.

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