I LOVE Garlic Prawn Pizza! Crispy, crunchy base with tangy sundried tomato pesto and tomato paste, with juicy garlic butter prawns, basil and fetta, oh and a touch of basil pesto. YUM!
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Make this pizza using a store bought base in under 30 minutes!
My Other Pizzas: Pocket Bread Pizza with Salami and Pineapple, and Grown Up Lebanese Bread Pizza.
The secret to this Garlic Prawn Pizza
The secret is the base - Its double baked. I used Lebanese bread (2 x 84 grams) which is perfect for the thin crispy base I love. So, I got the Lebanese bread and mixed up the sundried tomato pesto with the tomato paste, spread it over the bread, and then sprinkled about ⅓ of the grated cheese on the sauce and baked it for 10 mins. This is the first bake.
The second bake comes when you have all the topping on the base, where you bake it for another 10 minutes to get that uber crisp, crunchy light base.
How To Cook Garlic Prawns
Now, to those garlic prawns. You need 3 things. Butter, garlic that's been crushed, and of course the prawns. Ideally the small prawns work best, and you want them green or uncooked. I'm just clarifying this as you can also buy them already cooked, but you don't want that. Buy them uncooked and you'll get a better pizza!
Grab the wok and get it hot, add the garlic and butter and toss in the prawns. They'll cook quickly, so keep an eye on them. Definitely keep the leftover juices. This makes a delicious drizzle to put on the pizza right before serving!
Living on the coast north of Brisbane, there is no excuses for not getting the best prawns possible, but if you live in an area that doesn't have a lot of fresh seafood, you can use the frozen green prawns, just be sure to let them defrost first to get all the water/liquid off. You don't want this in the wok when you're trying to garlic up your prawns, it will just turn into a watery mess.
Fresh Prawns + Twice cooked Lebanese bread base + basil and feta = An awesome Friday night dinner, in front of the TV with a glass of red, with my two best friends, hubby and puppy. This dinner - ready in 30 minutes. Winner.
For more 30 minute dinners, you might fancy something quick and stir fryish, like my Cashew Nut Chicken, or Chilli Chicken Stirfry.
More Garlic Prawn Recipes
- Creamy Garlic Prawns with Rice
- Garlic Prawns with Fettuccine
- Lemon Garlic Prawns and Spaghetti Pasta
- Garlic Prawn and Tomato Risotto
Garlic Prawn Pizza
Ingredients
- 2 x 84 gram wholemeal lebanese bread
- 300 grams small prawns/shrimp (head and tail removed)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoons crushed garlic
- 1 tablespoon sun dried tomato pesto
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- ¼ cup grated cheese
- 1 tablespoon basil pesto
- ¼ cup sun dried tomatoes (diced)
- 2 teaspoons crumbled feta
- handful of fresh basil leaves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C/350 degrees F
- Mix 1 tablespoon sun dried tomato pesto with 2 tablespoons tomato paste in a bowl. Spoon the tomato mixture onto evenly over 2 x 84 gram wholemeal lebanese bread. Use two tablespoons of the ¼ cup grated cheese and divide evenly over each Lebanese bread. Put each on a pizza tray and bake for 10 minutes
- Meanwhile, cook 300 grams small prawns/shrimp (head and tail removed). If you have the larger prawns, chop them up so they go further. Heat a wok and add 1 tablespoon butter and 2 tablespoons crushed garlic and toss prawns until they turn translucent. Keep the garlic sauce as you can sprinkle this over the pizza just before serving
- When Lebanese breads are finished baking, remove from oven and lay the cooked prawns over, followed by the ¼ cup sun dried tomatoes (diced), 2 teaspoons crumbled feta, and remaining grated cheese.
- Dribble 1 tablespoon basil pesto over the pizzas before putting back into the oven. Bake again for another 10 minutes
- When pizza is out of oven for the second time, sprinkle a handful of fresh basil leaves over and drizzle the garlic prawn sauce over just before serving.
Notes
- Best eaten straight out of the oven
- Best eaten the next day for breakfast
- Best eaten next day for lunch
- Who am I kidding, it's not going to last that long!
Nutrition
Note: Sugars contained in this recipe are from naturally occurring sugars in fruits, vegetables or other natural sweeteners. Calories have been calculated for your convenience using My Fitness Pal and are based on the ingredients listed in the recipe card.
Carla says
I made this pizza for a special Valentine's Day dinner and it was so good! The only change was the addition of some mozzarella - delish!
Charlie Draper says
this is a garlic prawn pizza