Homemade Shrimp and Broccoli Pizza in the Oven

Homemade Oven Pizza with Shrimp and Broccoli

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Vegetables are an important part of our everyday diet, and for many people the only part. Vegetables are a real treasure trove of vitamins, trace elements, organic acids and, importantly for the body, fiber. Every vegetable has its own completely unique set of vitamins.

Most vegetables can be eaten raw, which lets you get their full benefit without losses. Cooking reduces the amount of good stuff in vegetables. Although everybody knows how healthy sauerkraut is, for example, since it keeps nearly all its vitamins. Quick deep freezing is also very good for preserving vegetables, especially if you do not thaw them on purpose before cooking.

Being very low in calories, vegetables are an indispensable part of all kinds of diets. Some vegetables take more energy to digest than they give. Ordinary white cabbage contains only 270 kcal per 1 kg.

That is roughly what 30 grams of pork lard has. As they say, no comments!

Or take, for example, an excellent vegetable used mostly in Mediterranean cuisines, though it is not rare here either: broccoli. Healthy broccoli is a plant food rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber. Doctors say it is especially useful for preventing cancer and improving eyesight. Broccoli soup is a real treasure trove of vitamins!

The homemade oven pizza I made today combines healthy broccoli with seafood, shrimp. We add fresh basil, black olives and capers. And of course, tomato sauce salsa di pomodoro, made from scratch too. Homemade oven pizza with shrimp and broccoli has slightly unexpected ingredients, but it is very, very tasty.

Ingredients

34 cm pizza

For the base

For the sauce

  • Tomato 1
  • Garlic to taste
  • Olive oil 1 tbsp
  • Salt to taste

For the pickled onion

  • Onion 1
  • Wine vinegar 1 tbsp

For the topping

Step-by-step recipe

Preparing the dough and topping

  1. Make the pizza dough and let it rise. While it rises, prepare the topping.

    Ingredients: pizza dough, shrimp, broccoli, Parmesan, basil, capers, black olives, salsa di pomodoro, onion.

  1. Pickle the onion: peel the onion, cut it into very thin strips, add 1 tbsp of wine vinegar and leave for 1-2 hours. Then rinse the onion and squeeze it dry.

  2. Boil the frozen broccoli in boiling water for 3-4 minutes and drain in a colander. Cut the stems off the florets so that only the dark green tops remain. If the broccoli florets are large, cut them into pieces.

  3. Make the tomato sauce, salsa di pomodoro. Scald the tomato with boiling water, peel it and remove all the seeds. Blend the flesh with the garlic into a puree. Heat 1 tbsp of olive oil in a skillet. Pour in the tomato puree, salt it and simmer over medium heat without a lid to evaporate the excess moisture, until the sauce thickens.

  4. Cook the shrimp until done and peel them, leaving the tails off. If the shrimp tails are fairly large, you can cut them in half lengthwise.

Assembling the pizza

  1. Knead the risen dough briefly and roll it into a round 5-7 mm thick. Place the dough on the pan, lightly greased with olive oil beforehand. Be sure to prick the dough with a fork in several places.

  1. Spread the sauce over the dough on the pan. Right after the sauce, arrange the sliced mozzarella and put the pickled onion on top.

    Spreading the sauce on the dough and adding the pickled onion.

  2. Arrange the shrimp on the pizza.

    Arranging the shrimp.

    Cut the pitted black olives in half and arrange them on the pizza, then sprinkle with chopped basil and dried oregano.

    Arranging the black olives and sprinkling with fresh basil.

  3. Grate Parmesan over the pizza, trying to cover the whole pizza with cheese without gaps.

    Sprinkling the pizza with grated Parmesan.

    Place the boiled broccoli florets and capers on top of the cheese.

    Adding the broccoli and capers.

Baking

  1. Sprinkle the pizza with 1 tbsp of olive oil and put it in an oven preheated to 200°C. Pizza with shrimp and broccoli bakes for 20 minutes, until the edges of the dough turn golden and the cheese melts.

    Pizza with shrimp.

Serving

  1. Cut the finished pizza into 6-8 slices. If you like, scatter a handful of fresh basil leaves over the finished pizza.

    Cutting the pizza.

    Despite many recommendations, pizza is best eaten hot. Reheated pizza with broccoli is not as good.

    homemade oven pizza

Calories and macros

200 kcal

100 g

  • Protein10.5 g21% of kcal
  • Fat8.9 g41% of kcal
  • Carbs18.5 g38% of kcal

Calculated from the recipe ingredients, excluding salt and spices. Data: USDA and Matvaretabellen.

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