Pizza Tentacles Recipes

OCTOPUS PIZZA

Steps:

• Cut a smaller disc (as if for a small to medium pizza) from the dough sheet. Cut the remaining dough into narrow strips.
• Line a baking tray with parchment paper and transfer the dough disc on it. Attach the dough strips to the disc as if they were the tentacles of an octopus.
• Coat the disc and tentacles with tomato sauce.
• Place the olive slices on the tentacles as if they were the suckers.
• Add the pepperoni slices and top each one with an olive slice as if they were the eyes.
• Bake for 20 minutes at 400⁰F/200⁰C.

SPIDER PIZZA BITES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 F or 180 C.
• Cut the bread slices into discs using a round shaped cookie cutter.
• Spread Marinara sauce over the discs and top with Mozzarella Cheese
• Cut the Olive heads horizontally to get two spider heads.Cut the body of the Olive into half lengthwise to get two bodies.Cut the Olive into thin strips lengthwise to get the tentacles.Arrange these into a spider over your Pizza. Sprinkle some Italian seasoning over the Pizza and place it in a greased baking tray
• Bake your Mini Pizza Bites for 14-15 minutes at 350 F or 180 C
• Serve hot

CALAMARI AND CHORIZO PIZZA

Steps:

• In a heavy skillet over medium-low heat, warm the olive oil. Add the fennel and wine, and season lightly with salt. Cover the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 20 minutes. Uncover and cook, stirring more frequently, until most of the liquid has evaporated and the fennel is slightly golden, about 5-10 minutes. Be careful to not let it scorch. Place a heavy baking steel on the lower oven rack of your oven and preheat it to its highest setting (usually 550˚F) for 1 hour. With 10 minutes left in the preheating, dust a board and your hands with rice flour, then stretch and pull the dough (don't press) into a roughly 13-inch round or oval-don't try to make it perfect. Transfer to a wooden pizza peel (or upside-down large, rimless baking sheet) liberally sprinkled with cornmeal. Working quickly, drizzle the dough evenly with about 1 tablespoon of olive oil and scatter the fennel evenly over the top, leaving a 1-inch border. Arrange the chorizo evenly and top with the shaved Manchego, again leaving a 1-inch border. Scatter with the calamari rings and tentacles and black lava salt. Jiggle the dough on the peel to make sure its still mobile, then slide it onto the hot baking steel. Bake until the edges are golden and the cheese melts, about 8-11 minutes. Remove the pizza and place on a cutting board, then grind plenty of black pepper over it. Garnish with the fennel tops, slice and enjoy. Makes one 13-inch pizza. Recipe may be doubled.

PIZZA TENTACLES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Place a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the sausage to the skillet and break into small pieces using a wooden spoon. Cook, stirring frequently, until the sausage is browned, about 5 minutes. Drain the fat from the sausage and set aside to cool slightly.
• Put the shredded mozzarella in a large mixing bowl. Pour the green food coloring over the cheese and stir thoroughly to combine.
• Sprinkle a work surface with all-purpose flour. Stretch the pizza dough out into 2 long rectangles, each 18 inches long and 2 1/2 inches wide. Divide the pesto down the center of the dough rectangles lengthwise, leaving 2 inches of border on each end. Sprinkle the sausage on top of the pesto. Mound the green cheese over the sausage. Working from the long side of the rectangles, tuck both ends in. Wrap the long side of the dough over and around the cheese. Roll the logs like burritos and press the dough together to create a neat seam. Lay the dough logs onto the parchment-lined baking sheet seam-side down. Twist the logs to give the tentacles movement. Squeeze both ends of the logs to make them narrower and tapered.
• Whisk the egg whites with 1 tablespoon of water in a small bowl. Pour half of this mixture into a second small bowl. Add 3 drops of the violet food coloring and 5 drops of the super red food coloring to the first bowl to make dark maroon; stir to combine. Add 1 drop violet food coloring and 1 drop super red food coloring to the second bowl to make light maroon; stir to combine.
• Using the dark red egg wash, paint both sides of the tentacles, coming only halfway up the log with a pastry brush. Using the light red egg wash, paint the remainder of the tentacles with a second pastry brush. Dot the light red portion of the tentacles with the mini pepperoni slices to create suction cups along the top.
• Bake until the pepperoni slices and pizza dough are crisp, 18 to 20 minutes. Allow to cool for 2 minutes before lifting onto a serving platter. To decorate: turn a large stockpot on its side. Arrange the tentacles so they appear to be crawling out of the stockpot. Trim off any green cheese that oozed out while baking and use it to decorate as slime.