Sauces’n Love Pink Pesto Pizza with Crab Meat and Shitake Mushrooms

Sauces’n Love Pink Pesto Pizza with Crab Meat and Shitake Mushrooms

Ingredients:

• One jar Sauces’n Love Pink Pesto
• 1 10-ounce purchased fully baked thin pizza crust
• 8 ounces crab meat
• about 2 dozen shitake mushrooms cleaned and sliced, stems removed
• 1/2 cup Kalamata olives or other brine- cured black olives, halved, pitted
• 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• One large red bell pepper, thinly sliced
• 1 1/2 cups grated mozzarella cheese

 

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 450°F. Place crust on baking sheet.
2. Spread with Pink Pesto, leaving 1/2-inch plain border.
3. Top evenly with crab meat, artichokes, olives, and crushed red pepper.
4. Heat oil in heavy medium skillet over medium-high heat.
5. Add bell pepper and sauté until just tender, about 5 minutes; arrange pepper slices on pizza.
6. Sprinkle cheese over.
7. Bake pizza until crust is brown and crisp on bottom and topping is heated through, about 15 minutes. Transfer pizza to work surface; cut into wedges.