Black pizza with octopus and prawns is a delicious, original dish that’s sure to surprise your guests.
Recipe · Savory pastries
Black pizza with octopus and prawns
- 10 ingredients
- 11 steps
Ingredients
- 1 black pizza dough (available in some specialty shops, or make your own with squid ink)
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup grated mozzarella
- 200 g cooked octopus, thinly sliced
- 150 g peeled prawns
- 1 red onion, thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Chopped fresh parsley, to garnish
Step-by-step preparation
- Preheat the oven to 220 °C.
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat and add the onion and garlic. Cook for 5–10 minutes, until soft and golden.
- Add the prawns and cook for a few minutes until pink. Remove them from the pan and set aside.
- Roll out the black pizza dough on a pizza tray or a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Spread the tomato sauce over the dough, leaving a border of about 1 cm.
- Cover the sauce with the grated mozzarella.
- Arrange the octopus slices and prawns over the pizza.
- Scatter the sautéed onion and garlic on top.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Bake for about 15–20 minutes, until the crust is crisp.
- Garnish with chopped fresh parsley and serve hot.
Enjoy a black pizza with octopus and prawns full of surprising sea flavors. Try squid, mussels or clams for a different version, or add roasted red peppers or black olives.