Grilled Mediterranean Pizza

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Grilled Mediterranean Pizza

Ingredients

Basic Pizza Dough

  • 1 pkg dry yeast
  • 1 1/3 cup hot water (110 degrees)
  • 1 tbsp kosher salt
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 3/4 cup flour

Toppings

  • olive oil & 4-7 finely chopped garlic cloves (in place of traditional sauce)
  • 20 medium pre-cooked shrimp, detailed season with Bay seasoning, salt, pepper, lemon
  • 1/2 cup fresh basil
  • 1/2 cup toasted pine nuts
  • 4 oz Feta crumbled cheese
  • 4 oz grated parmesan cheese
  • 1/2 lemon squeezed and ready to squeeze over pizza before serving

Instructions

Dough

  1. Mix yeast and water and let stand until yeast foams.

  2. Kneed for 12 minutes or until elastic. Place dough in bowl lightly covered with olive oil and coat dough with a bit. Cover with towel and let rise in a warm place (at least 80 degrees.) Allow to rise until doubled in size 1 ½- 2 hours. 

  3. Roll out into circle or square and flour each side until stable and ready for grill.


  4. Heat grill to 500 degrees, turn off one side of gas grill and turn down flames to medium on the one operating side. Place dough directly on hot side until browned then flip and move to side turned off. 

  5. Put olive oil garlic and all toppings on and shut lid so the dough bakes. If the dough browns before the inside is fully baked, put on a baking sheet and continue to bake on the side turned off. (This Houdini maneuver prevents your dough from burning before it is cooked all the way through.)


  6. Just before serving pizza squeeze with fresh lemon and enjoy the smells and salty ocean flavor of this non-traditional pizza.