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Wild Palms Flatbread

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Dinner, Main Course – American
By Kelly Djalali – Serves: 2-4
Prep Time: 20 Minutes – Cooking Time: 17 Minutes for the Pizza and 12-15 Minutes for the Bacon, 5 minutes for the White Sauce – Total Time: 35 Minutes

A crispy, crunchy flatbread pizza with a white sauce base; loaded with mozzarella, bacon, Gulf Shrimp, corn and green onions – Named for the place that it inspired it, Wild Palms on Tybee Island.

Ingredients

  • White Sauce
  • 2 tbsp. Butter
  • 2 tbsp. All Purpose Flour
  • 1 1/4 cup Whole Milk
  • 2-4 Cloves Garlic, grated or pressed
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan Cheese, shredded
  • Pizza Toppings
  • 1 Prepared Pizza Dough
  • 1/4-1/3 cup White Sauce
  • ~1 cup Low Moisture Mozzarella Cheese, shredded (plus a little more for sprinkling on top)
  • 5-7 Strips of Bacon, baked until lightly crisped and diced
  • 1/2 lb. Shrimp, peeled, rinsed, cut into cubes
  • 1/4 -1/3 cup Corn Kernels
  • 3-4 Green Onions, thinly sliced, green part and white parts kept separate
  • 2 tbsp. Flat Leaf Parsley, rough chopped
  • 3-4 Calabrian Chilis, thinly sliced (optional)

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2

Lay bacon slices on a sheet tray and bake until lightly crisp and browned, about 12-15 minutes.

3

When the bacon is done, increase oven temperature to 425 degrees.

4

Meanwhile make the white sauce.

White Sauce

5

Over medium-low, melt the butter and whisk in the flour and cook, whisking until the mixture is smooth and bubbling around the edges, 1-2 minutes.

6

Then whisk in the milk and turn the heat up to medium-high and whisk until it's creamy and thick, about 3 minutes.

7

Then whisk in the pressed or grated garlic and the cracked black pepper.

8

Add the Parmesan cheese and remove from heat while you whisk to melt the cheese, about 1 minute.

9

Taste it for salt. Add a scant pinch of salt, to taste.

Assembly

10

Spread white sauce over center of pie in an even layer, leaving the edge of dough free for the crust.

11

Evenly spread Mozzarella, then chopped bacon, shrimp, then corn, then the white parts of the sliced green onions.

12

Top with a little more mozzarella.

13

Bake for 14-18 minutes.

14

Lightly blot top of pie with a paper towel to remove excess moisture.

15

Top with the green parts of the green onion slices, parsley and Calabrian chili (if using).