Recipe with Crab Meat: Maryland Crab Pizza!
This recipe with crab meat: Maryland Crab Pizza will have your family and friends asking for it for every occasion! Whether it's pizza dinner night or you need a good hot appetizer, this recipe is a show stopper!
Ingredients
- 16 ounces Pizza Dough (either homemade or ready-to-bake)
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil, extra virgin
- 2 cups Mozzarella Cheese (shredded or sliced)
- ⅔ cup Ricotta Cheese, whole milk
- 1 clove Garlic, minced
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 3 tbsp Pecorino Romano Cheese, grated or finely shredded
- ½ lb Lump Crab Meat
- Crab/Seafood Seasoning, to taste
- Fresh Basil, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Brush bottom & sides of your cookie sheet or pizza pan with 1 tablespoon olive oil and then stretch out your pizza dough to fit the pan.
- Form a slight lip around the edges for your crust.
- Then, brush the top of the pizza dough with the 2nd tablespoon of olive oil.
- Pre-bake the dough in the oven for 6 minutes.
- While the dough is pre-baking, in a small bowl mix together the ricotta cheese, minced garlic & salt. Set aside.
- Once pizza dough is pre-baked, remove from oven and add dollops of ricotta cheese mixture to the dough. Then spread around the dough evenly with the back of a large spoon.
- Sprinkle on your mozzarella cheese evenly over top of the ricotta cheese.
- After that, sprinkle on the pecorino romano cheese over the mozzarella cheese.
- Place pizza in the oven and bake for 10 more minutes.
- Remove pizza from oven and add your Lump Crab Meat evenly over the entire pizza.
- Then sprinkle your seafood/crab seasoning over top of the crab meat.
- Place pizza back into the oven and bake for 8 more minutes.
- Once pizza is removed from the oven, add fresh basil.
- Serve immediately.